In contemporary medical and psychological practice, diagnoses are “things” that are conferred on people. They are things we have like a car or a pet. They have a “natural history” which is how they are supposed to unfold.
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Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is a general practitioner and a psychiatrist who works primarily with Indigenous North Americans in Maine, USA, with Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness. He is interested in narrative and relational approaches as being especially suited to indigenous people but useful for everyone. He is on the clinical faculties of medical schools at the University of New England and the University of Vermont and is associated with Coyote Institute and the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine. His most recent book is Remappng Your Mind.
