Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical
psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in
psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has
been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as
associate professor of family medicine at the University of New
England. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop
uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those
communities. He is interested in the relation of healing through
dialogue in community and psychosis. He is the author of Coyote
Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on
what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He has also
written Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of
Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and, his most recent book
with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of
Self-Transformation through Story. Lewis currently works with Wabanaki
Public Health and Wellness, which serves the five tribes of Maine. He
also works part-time at Acadia Hospital and with the Family Medicine
Residency at Eastern Maine Medical Center. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and
Transformation. Lewis has been studying traditional healing and
healers since his early days and has written about their work and the
process of healing. His primary focus has been upon Cherokee and
Lakota traditions, though he has also explored other Plains Cultures
and those of Northeastern North America. His goal is to bring the
wisdom of indigenous peoples about healing back into mainstream
medicine and to transform medicine and psychology through this wisdom
coupled with more European-derived narrative traditions. He has
written scientific papers in these areas and continues to do research.
He writes a weekly (almost) blog on health and mental health for
www.futurehealth.org. His current interests center around psychosis
and its treatment within community and with non-pharmacological means,
narrative approaches to chronic pain and its use in primary care, and
further developing healing paradigms within a narrative/indigenous
framework.
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