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 →
In our shared human Umwelt[1] there is an ecological relevance for us to recognize the centrality of race as a significant relational and social factor and dynamism that shapes the 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 →
During my residency in public health 35 years ago I first heard about the Oregon Health Plan. We learned about then Oregon state senator John Kitzhaber’s vision of creating a 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 →
CThe global human body is sickened by the virus and we need individual and community approaches to process its impact. As it spreads across the world it creates disruption, fear, Continue Reading →
There is no more consequential outcome of privilege than (health and) life itself. The privilege of being on the living end of racism. Racism is one of the fastest-spreading and 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 →