Navigating Uncertainty
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower —Rainer Maria Rilke Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this Continue Reading →
True Healing
Antidotes to Fear of Deathby Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidoteTo fear of death,I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching Continue Reading →
Health Equity: Race Consciousness Versus Colorblindness
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 →
Centering Race, Decentering the Human Race
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 →
Poetic Medicine: A Path to Creative Wholeness
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 →
Your mythopoetic symptom dreaming
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 →
Worldwork and Cultural Debates
Worldwork is the theory and practice of Arnold Mindell’s process-oriented psychology that is applied to large groups, teams, organizations and communities. In my mind, it’s application has a set of Continue Reading →
Healing Emotions, Social Ills and Politics
My great-grandfather Fritz Morin and my grandfather Jean Morin were Swiss doctors specialized in treating tuberculosis before the era of antibiotic treatment. My great-grandfather’s oldest son Alfred contracted the lung Continue Reading →
Prelude to Communal Medicine
The Truth Takes Work “Not wanting to know means asking for oppression[Timothy Snyder. Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. New York: Crown, 2020.]” says the historian Timothy Continue Reading →
Communal Medicine
Communal Medicine reflects the natural evolution of my inquiry into the field and profession of medicine. I was introduced to medicine by my uncle Pierre Girard, a talented and well-regarded Continue Reading →