Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine trained in family medicine, psychiatry and clinical psychology, has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently at the University of New England. He is a descendant of the Cherokee-Lakota Sioux people, and was raised by his grandmother, a Cherokee woman. His father’s people were a combination of French Canadian and Oglala Lakota from the Wounded Knee area of South Dakota. He has long worked in aboriginal communities and developed uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and healthcare. He is the author of a trilogy: Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing and Coyote Wisdom; as well as: Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and most recently, with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.
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