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[...]
A Stanford-trained doctor tells how he gave up the promise of a lucrative practice to learn more about the Native American healing arts his ancestors used and describes his efforts to incorporate the benefits of modern and ancient medicine[...]
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[...]
Stories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honour and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provided with experiences of spiritual empowerment that can lead to transforma[...]
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[...]
Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all reported trials are considered instead of just th[...]