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Physical, psychological, or structural harm caused by imposing reductive explanations on complex human experiences. Examples include treating trauma solely as a brain chemistry problem (and medicating instead of healing), reducing social inequality to individual genetics, or dismissing a patient’s pain as “just” psychosomatic. Reductionist violence denies the reality of emergent suffering and often leads to inadequate or harmful interventions.
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