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Attempting to address this conflict, I focus on the narration of trauma in Han Kang\u2019s\n                    <jats:italic>The Vegetarian<\/jats:italic>\n                    (2015) and discuss how traumatic narrative enables us to understand traumatised patients\u2019 mental states. In addition, allowing other family members to take part in the patient\u2019s narrative supplements the \u2018Cultural Formulation Interview\u2019 proposed in DSM-V. The analysis of the latest methodology in psychopathology and\n                    <jats:italic>The Vegetarian<\/jats:italic>\n                    demonstrates that while standardised medical care can provide medical guidance to common cases, literature, as a form of expression, is more powerful in presenting the internal life of traumatised people. 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