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Health and sickness are mystifying processes full of meaning and challenges. They are embedded in social and cultural environments that benefit some more than others and thus need us all to hone our social awareness and skills. They are also dreaming processes that require a new process-oriented intelligence and practice. Communal Medicine is about exploring the many intertwined experiences we have when we are getting sick or are facing illness. It is about understanding the lived experience of disease and the objective realities of medicine within their individual, social, cultural, dreaming, and spiritual contexts. Understanding the complex layers of a person's and community's health care experience will help health care providers and participants alike improve their own and their patients'/clients' physical, emotional, and social health.
About the author
Pierre Morin MD, PhD, currently works as a consultant for culturally specific behavioral health clinics and as a counselor in private practice. He worked for 20 years as clinical director and supervisor with refugees and trauma survivors in a community outpatient mental health setting, in Portland Oregon. As a physician in Switzerland he worked in the fields of brain injury recovery and psychosocial medicine. He is the author of Health in Sickness and Sickness in Health and Big Medicine: Transforming your Relationship with your Body, Health, and Community. He has written numerous articles on mind-body medicine and community health. He is an international coach and trainer and the current co-president of the International Association of Process-Oriented Psychology (IAPOP).
