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About

Lewis Mehl-Madrona

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.

Why are people drawn to experiences like ceremonies, trance dancing, drumming, hypnosis, and even psychedelics?…
In contemporary medical and psychological practice, diagnoses are “things” that are conferred on people. They…
One of the more objectionable and emotion-filled diagnoses that exist in the mental health field…
We are exploring stories that are used for healing and stories can be used therapeutically…