Books
Health in Sickness, Sickness In Health: Towards a Process Oriented Medicine
by Pierre Morin
"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, the author of Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care.
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Inside Coma:
A New view of Awareness,
Healing, and Hope
by Pierre Morin & Gary Reiss
• Heartwarming stories that engender genuine hope for professionals and families dealing with this most difficult area of treatment
• More than 20 relevant exercises that help the reader to understand the coma state and how to be most useful to the person in this state
• An appendix that expands on scientific and philosophical concepts introduced in the book and includes reference links
• A glossary of basic terms of process oriented coma work and related medical terms
• A bibliography
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Interviews
• Listen to Pierre Morin talk with Serge Prengel on the Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy website
• Listen to
Pierre Morin talk with Chris Allen on the Process Work Institute website
YouTube
Free PowerPoint Presentations:
- Processwork and Medicine
- Understanding and Living Well with Chronic Pain
- You have the right to Clean Hands Initiative
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Free Word Documents:
- Rank and Health
- Process oriented Personality Theory
- Personality and Health
- Coma Work
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Free PDFs:
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Free Podcasts:
- Understanding Chronic Pain: A Multi-Modality Forum
- International Association of Process Oriented Psychology Conference 2010
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Web-link:
The Dreambody: A New Integrative Approach to Illness, New Connection article
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Publications:
Rank and Salutogenesis: A Quantitative and Empirical Study of Self-Rated Health and Perceived Social Status. Submitted for publication in the journal Health Psychology (July 1st, 2002)
Asclepius' Rod: An Overview of the Struggle between the Sacred and the Profane in Medicine. The Journal of Process oriented Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 35-45.
Symptoms, Dreaming and Society: Process oriented Symptom Work as a New Approach to Illness and Disease. The Journal of Process oriented Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 25-33.
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Book Review
Coma a Healing Journey: A Guide for Family, Friend, and Helpers by Amy Mindell. The Journal of Process oriented Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 75-77.
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Dissertation
Rank and Salutogenesis: A Quantitative and Empirical Study of Self-Rated Health and Perceived Social Status, 2002
by Pierre Morin
Abstract:
This study consisted of a quantitative survey of the relationship between self-rated health, subjective rank, Antonovsky’s sense of coherence and objective measures of social status. For the measure of subjective rank Mindell’s multidimensional concept of rank was used, which includes social dimensions as well as non-materially based elements of community integration and self-esteem. Subjective rank relies on the individual’s own perception of his or her social standing in the various areas of social comparison. A questionnaire was developed that operationalizes the concept of rank into this new measure of subjective rank. Subjective rank was then compared to objective measures of socioeconomic status (SES), Antonovsky’s sense of coherence (SOC), and self-rated physical health. The study sample reflected 133 U.S. and 59 Swiss participants of Lava Rock Seminars which address psychological and physical needs related to chronic illness.
The author hypothesized that the measure of subjective rank would be more sensitive in predicting health than SOC and objective SES.
Findings showed that subjective rank was significantly related to self-rated health among both groups. It explained 31% of the variance in self-reported health among the U.S. sample. In a multiple regression analysis of the U.S. sample, SOC and objective SES became non-significant predictors once subjective rank was entered. The range of social status of participants in both samples was restricted, which limits the conclusions about the relative association of subjective and objective social status with health. Nevertheless, these results are consistent with the assumption that perceived rank dominates the effect on self-reported health. They suggest that low perceived rank is linked to greater stress by either increasing stress directly or iii increasing the vulnerability to the effect of stress. These results demonstrate that rank has a considerable impact on subjective health. This study positions Mindell’s concepts of rank within a larger academic discourse of power and privilege. Further, by integrating newer concepts based on Antonovsky’s ‘Salutogenesis’ and Mindell’s ideas on rank, this study contributes to a change of our attitude toward illness and deviance.
To read Rank and Salutogenesis click on each chapter for a PDF file.
Introduction
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B