HEALTH IN SICKNESS SICKNESS IN HEALTH – Book Launch – February 8th 2014

“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.” (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

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Advance Praise:

From his extensive experience in medicine and psychology, Dr. Morin shows us in Health-in-Sickness and Sickness-in-Health that the energies and problems that bother us when we are ill are connected to our ongoing psychological development process. He offers ground-breaking ideas, moving stories and practical steps to creating wellness and “wholeness” in the midst of body problems. He shows how to find what he calls, “big health”.

Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell
Authors of Metaskills and Quantum Mind and Healing

Dr. Morin has written a book whose ideas will be at the center of discussions of healthcare and well-being for decades to come. His central thesis that we ought to be curious about ‘Process’ will lie at the heart of these discussions. For Process, so he writes, “means that whatever happens in our bodies, the tales and discoveries that come with health and illness, are not only fateful but a meaningful path on our way through life’s developmental process.” Our symptoms have meaning and want to speak to us. Dr. Morin’s book tells us how to listen. Through learning to listen, we can change our lives and that of others. Understood as such, this book will change your life.

Nader R. Shabahangi, Ph.D.
CEO & Founder AgeSong, Inc.

Health-in-Sickness and Sickness-in-Health is a fresh examination of the way humans make meaning from their health and illness experiences. Morin’s provocative and compelling approach to this important topic has the potential to change the paradigm of biomedicine as we currently know it. This book comes at a pivotal time in the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system and is a must read for every healthcare provider, healthcare administrator, educator, and community member engaged in the dialogue of community well-being, so that they could learn why the implementation of healthcare software systems like Foresee Medical is so important.

Isabelle Soulé, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor Oregon Health & Science University

In Health-in-Sickness and Sickness-in-Health, Dr. Pierre Morin offers a powerful antidote for an over-medicalized society. He explores the ways in which our narrow view of “health” has actually reduced our overall wellness—by failing to understand the illness in the context of each person’s relational life, marginalizing and disempowering those who are different or who cannot be cured, and ultimately losing sight of the lessons that life teaches us on our journey through sickness and wellness. In doing so, he reveals deeper truths about what it means to be human and what it means to be well. I would recommend this book for all who wish to be healers, or to be healed.

G. Allen Power, MD
Author of Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Max Schupbach
Acknowledgements
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: The Anatomy of Health and Sickness
Chapter III: Health & Normality
Chapter IV: A System- and Process-Based Medicine
Chapter V: Deep Democracy & Health
Chapter VI: Enhancing Placebo and Preventing Nocebo
Chapter VII: Health-in-Sickness & Sickness-in-Health
Chapter VIII: Conclusion
Appendix I: Dreambody Medicine Forum
Appendix II: Health-in-Sickness Toolkit
Appendix III: Definitions
Bibliography