Interviews with Interesting People

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Join us for "Listen To Your Ancestors: Bring Their Voices to the Page" at Omega Institute October 18-20, 2024.
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Louis Peachey is a highly recognized Aboriginal physician in Australia and among the first to graduate from medical school. He has wonderful stories about how he got to medical school, his career, and how Australian aboriginal people are "closing the gap."
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Mark Winetong is an Australian Indigenous general practitioner, who was one of the first Indigenous people to graduate from medical school in Australia. He currently is the Director of Knowledge Translation at the Lowitja Institute. He tells his story of getting from juvenile delinquent to general practice physician and how he has influenced Indigenous health policy in Australia.
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Brian and Joanna Lamboy of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine present their fractal theory of being which can change psychiatry.
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Helen Nuttall from Lancaster University (UK) and her graduate student, Elise, discuss their work on cognitive reserve and scaffolding theory. It's about preventing dementia and it's more interesting than it sounds!
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Dr. Shapiro spent over 40 years working with behavioral health and medical arts and humanities in family medicine at the University of California at Irvine. We discuss her experiences and insights.
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Interview with Tim Carey who writes books on the Method of Levels, which is an alternative approach to Motivational Interviewing and a mode of doing psychotherapy
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Linda Liebenberg is a Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has been involved in community-based, participatory research with Indigenous communities. She tells us about her work with Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia regarding youth mental health. She also talks about using photography in qualitative research.
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Osteopathy has much to offer to a unified approach to healing our wounds, and Josie, who is the director of osteopathic training at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, tells us about the osteopathic perspective on healing wounds.
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Margie is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Alaska - Anchorage. She speaks about her work in coming to understand revitalization among Kodiak Island's Indigenous people. We continue to discuss what health care would be if it were organized by Indigenous people.
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Here is my interview with Mick Cooper, a leader in the pluralistic psychotherapy movement in the UK. We talk about the many humanistic options available for psychotherapy and explore why CBT has achieved such dominance in mainstream psychology.
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Johanna Lynch is the President of the General Practice Psychological Medicine Association of Australia. We talk about the importance of psychological medicine being part of general practice and the challenges of making that so.
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Alayna Hall is a Maori woman who is developing uniquely Maori concepts of attachment, different from the Eurocentric concepts of Bowlby and Ainsworth. She's definitely worth watching.
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Louise Harding is part of a research group at the University of British Columbia that is considering Indigenous theories of Mind. We discuss this project and further ideas for research.
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Linda is an expert on Indigenous Research Methodologies and wrote the definitive book on the subject. Her perspectives are important and relevant.
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Dr. Selvam is a clinical psychologist who has just written a book, Guide to Integral Somatic Psychology, a very interesting approach to body psychotherapy. We discuss emotions and the body and how the two are inseparable.
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Glenn Aparicio Parry is the Director of the Center for Original Thinking in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has a long history of creating dialogues with Indigenous North Americans and others toward creative change and planetary survival. He has written two books, Original Politics and Original Thinking, both of which I recommend. His upcoming book is Original Love.
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Here is Sarah Wright's discussion of belonging to place in relation to Australian Indigenous thought in Bawana Country.
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Sarah works with Aboriginal communities in Australia to explore the concept of belonging to Country and what that means. She is Professor of Geography at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales.
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My colleague, Patrick McFarlane, reports on a just-released book by Merrick Daniel Pilling on LGTBQ, Madness, and Social Justice. Then we continue to discuss Pilling's ideas in relation to decolonization and what can we (little people) do about the state of the mental health world today. It's in two parts, a (this one) and b (the next one).
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Lewis interviews Thorben Simonsen, Professor at the Institute of Technology in Copenhagen, about Architectural Healing and its ramifications. It's a fascinating conversation that we hope all will enjoy.
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Ron Unger does CBT for Psychosis in Oregon and is a wonderful resource in this area. We had a marvelous conversation about psychotherapy for psychosis and its healing.
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Jen Rowett, faculty member in counseling in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick and I discuss two-eyed seeing, decolonizing the academy, and what she's doing at UNB.
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Walter is an Implementation Specialist with the Aboriginal Unit of the Center for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada's largest such hospital. He's become interested as I am in two-eyed seeing with regards to Indigenous healing -- what constitutes evidence and how do we interact with the mainstream medical community and their beliefs about evidence. See where we go with this discussion!
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Lakhota woman, Dr. Ruby Gibson, based in Rapid City, South Dakota, at Freedom Lodge, talks about her work with Somatic Archaeology with Indigenous People for healing historical trauma. She's quite inspiring.
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Dr. Andres Lijoi describes his work with narrative medicine in medical training environments. He has good exercises and we also discuss some of the problems of doing narrative medicine within corporate medicine.
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Lisa has guided the Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness from an entity of 7 people to 107 people. She discusses how she came to leave the colonial system and build capacity within indigenous communities. She discusses the role of culture in healing and the need to decolonize the workplace.
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Siseko Kumalo is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Lewis interviews him about his work in decolonization and his work with re-membering indigenous African philosophers from 100 to 120 years ago. It was a fascinating conversation.
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Patrick McFarlane, my colleague and social worker, nurse practitioner (psychiatric and family), and graduate student at Memorial University in St. Johns, Newfoundland, talks about his own process of decolonization and the need to decolonize health care in general.
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Lewis interviews Thorben Simonsen, Professor at the Institute of Technology in Copenhagen, about Architectural Healing and its ramifications. It's a fascinating conversation that we hope all will enjoy.
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Francesca Panzironi is the CEO of ANTAC, an organization that supports and promotes Australian aboriginal traditional cultural healing. She describes what inspired her to engage in this work as an immigrant to Australia, the work that has and is being done by the traditional healers, and her aspirations for the future for them.
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Interview with Eduardo Duran
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This is my interview with one of our all-time heroes, Donald Fixico, who talks about his book, American Indian Mind in a Linear World, and his work since then. Dr. Fixico is a Professor of History at Arizona State University.
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Dan and Zachary are part of the Neurobiological Learning Society. We continue a conversation started when we visited them in Honolulu about the global economy, capitalism, and its impacts on education and healthcare. Dan is the star of a new movie about Alzheimer's Disease called The Static Movie. It's a great film and a "must see."
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Here is my interview of Dr. Georgina Stewart, a professor of Maori philosophy at Auckland University of Technology. She talks about the Maori perspective on the world and its philosophy.
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Lewis interviews Rebekah Sinclair, a professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, about indigenous logic within the context of indigenous philosophy and the profound changes it can produce in the way we think about the world.
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Juan Rodriguez is an indigenous faculty member at the University of New Brunswick. We had to laugh because I tell people that Orono (Maine) is conveniently located on the road to Fredericton (site of UNB), but almost no one in the USA has ever heard of Fredericton. Juan is working with Albert Marshall's Two-Eyed Seeing Concept and has developed a geometric way of teaching about this that he calls the relatuhedron. His work is really quite fun and exciting.
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Lewis interviews Bob Vetter on the Therapeutic Use of Stories
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Carl Mika is Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has written exciting papers on Maori philosophy and in this interview, he focuses on interconnectivity.
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Lewis interviews Justin Pack, Professor of Philosophy at California State University - Stanislaus and author of two interesting books on Thoughtlessness. Justin writes about the importance of Native American philosophy for the field as a whole and has written some papers influenced by Vine Deloria, Jr. and Wildcat. He talks about the failed assumptions of modernism and how to re-invigorate philosophy with indigenous concepts, especially that of locality.
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This is Lewis Mehl-Madrona interviewing Dr. John Dye, professor emeritus of mind-body medicine.
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona interviews Wiremu Nia Nia and Alister Bush about their work together at the Maori Counseling Center near Wellington, New Zealand. They discuss their new book, Collaborative Indigenous Mental Health Therapies, co-authored with David Epston. It's a fun discussion of two-eyed seeing applied to mental health and lasts almost 90 minutes.
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Joseph is an osteopath who works with sound healing.
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Shaun is from the University of Memphis who has an incredible paper on animal selves and in the interview they discuss the pattern theory of self.
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Kristen is a PhD candidate at UCLA who has written interesting papers on suicide justice.
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Nadia has her PhD in Literature and is a poet, essay writer, and author and we discuss story and medicine.
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Andrea Reid is the principal investigator & founder of the center of Indigenous Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.
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We discuss the philosophy behind our mental health system
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In this interview we discuss recognizing spirits.
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In this interview, we discuss herbal medicine.
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Monica is a professor of psychology at Montana State University and also works with the CARES group. They discuss substance use among American Indian people.
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Dr. Michelle Loy is an integrative medicine physician in New York City at Weill Cornell Medicine, they discuss Narrative Medicine.
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We discuss an esteemed teacher of Lewis’s, Sonny Richards, a Lakota Medicine Man.
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Here is our interview with Regina, an Indigenous licensed social worker trained in EDMR and somatic modalities.
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