We are born into a world of stories that quickly shapes our behavior and development without our conscious awareness. By retelling our personal, family, and cultural narratives we can transform the patterns of our own lives as well as the patterns that shape our communities and the larger social wor[...]

Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all ways possible for them to occur. Modern medicine has only a dim awareness of this possibility of healing. Miraculous patients are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group o[...]

Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient's own story in the healing process

- Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient

- Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process

- Propose[...]