Creative Healing
I find this image by Angus Maguire (Interaction Institute for Social Change) very illustrative of the conversation between equality/equality of opportunity and equity/equality of outcome and the need for race Continue Reading →
At the end of 1913 Carl Gustav Jung separated himself from Freud and the psychoanalytic community. Their prior collaboration served both men crucial interests. Freud, a Jewish intellectual in declining Continue Reading →
In medicine we have many learned words about body symptoms and diseases. We think and speak a lot about them. We have explanations and treatments based on these understandings. We Continue Reading →
Covid-19 is one of many present-day man-made public health crises. It appears, its origin is linked to the growth in world population and the narrowing of spaces between the human Continue Reading →
Health is contaminated with disease, wellbeing is polluted with sickness. As Antonovsky[i] remarked, we are all chronically ill, constantly adjusting to challenges and threats to our health. We keep moving Continue Reading →
Big Medicine is a guide for anyone who is interested and healing, including “patients,” providers, and caregivers who want to uncover the deeper meaning of physical symptoms and build a Continue Reading →
Julia came to me to get help processing her experiences with an advanced smooth muscle cancer. I was privileged to accompany her in her journey that took a transitional turn Continue Reading →
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I am reading Herbie Hancock’s new biography Possibilities. For the uninitiated, Herbie is one of the most influential Jazz pianists. In his first chapter he recounts a story of his Continue Reading →
Kodak used Shirley cards to standardize the reproduction and printing of skin tones. Shirley became a world wide norm reference for color balancing skin tones in photo labs. This norm created a Continue Reading →