Health and sickness are mystifying processes full of meaning and challenges. They are embedded in social and cultural environments that benefit some more than others and thus need us all to hone our social awareness and skills. They are also dreaming processes that require a new process-oriented intelligence and practice. This book is about exploring the many intertwined experiences we have when we are facing illness or are wanting to stay healthy. Communal Medicine works at the threshold between our inner and outer worlds and awakens in us the recognition of the sacredness of all the difference that is. When we open ourselves to the individual and communal imaginations that are nestled in what expresses itself as challenging experiences, new beginnings and destinations surface.
Product Details
Health / Psychology
210 Pages
6 x 9” Trade Paper (softcover) w/B&W interior
ISBN: 9781662909030 (paperback)
Price: $20.95 US
Publisher: GatekeeperPress
Publication Date: August 2, 2023
Available on Amazon.com.
Endorsements
“Pierre Morin weaves the threads of health, social justice, dreams, and the fate of our planet into a beautiful round tapestry. His concept of Communal Intelligence turns out to be a life intelligence.”
—MAX SCHUPBACH, founder of Deep Democracy Institute
“Dr. Pierre Morin’s book Communal Medicine is an important contribution to understanding how the concepts of health and illness are embedded in our personal, social and community lives. His book shows how illness can be part of our deepest dreaming. In his book he weaves the poetic with the practical, the social activist and the dreaming.”
—ARNOLD & AMY MINDELL, developers of Process-oriented Psychology
Table of Contents
Preface
Prelude: The Truth Takes Work
Communal Medicine
The I and We Process
Otto Zumstein
Anthropocene
Black Lives Matter
Intelligences Beyond the Intellect
Process
Taoism
Uncertainty: Welcome to Holland
Process Skills
Burden of Self-Importance
Deep Democracy
Process Mind
Communal Intelligence
Deep Equality
Health Equity
Contaminated Diversity
Centering Race
Systemic Racism
Racism as a Public Health Crisis
The Cost of Racism for White People
Worldwork
Rank and Power
Intersectionality
Contaminated Health
Health Inequities
Multiculturalism and Political Correctness
Contempt Versus Unity
Moral Imagination
Taking the Other Side
Communing
Conclusion: Yes and No, the Whole Story
Appendix