Howling Coyote

Here's the five minute version for those who don't have time for the longer version or just want to quickly check it out.

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 in Australia

Brian and Joanna Lamboy discuss their fractal theory of being in a short video.

Brian and Joanna Lamboy from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine discuss their fractal theory of being and its implications for psychiatry.

Interview with Helen Nuttal and Elise, her graduate student, about cognitive reserve and their research about cognition.

This podcast comes from a class I taught. The first five minutes are not so exciting as a student critiques a paper I wrote, but then it gets fun. Feedback welcome as always.

5 minute version of my interview with Andrea Reid.

Andrea is a Principal Investigator and Indigenous community member in British Columbia, affiliated with the University of British Columbia. She is applying the ideas of two-eyed seeing to fisheries management which is quite exciting.

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.

Here's the six-minute summary for those of you who don't have time to watch the entire hours.

My friend and colleague, Patrick McFarlane, now of Detroit, Michigan, has been doing a deep dive into the ideas of decolonizing medicine, psychology, and social work as part of his Ph.D. dissertation. We're catching up with him over one year later from his last podcast with me to see what he's learned and what's new.  You can watch the video on Youtube, on my channel under "Howling Coyote."

This is my practice talk for a keynote I gave for the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.  Hopefully, the actual talk was better but I think this is adequate.  Please let me know.  The topic is obviously story and brain.

Interview with Josie Conte regarding the role of osteopathy for helping people who have been wounded emotionally.

This is Margaret Draskovitch's discussion of the Revitalization that is occurring on Kodiak Island, Alaska among the Aleutiq People. She was on my podcast in its first year and is now returning to provide an update.  We discuss what health care would be if Indigenous people organized it.

This is a 5 minute Intro to Margaret Draskovitch's discussion of the Revitalization that is occurring on Kodiak Island, Alaska among the Aleutiq People.

I interview Mick Cooper, a leader in the U.K. pluralistic psychology movement.

Johanna Lynch is the President of the Australian Association for General Practice Psychological Medicine.  We talk about the importance of psychological medicine in General Practice and the challenges of putting it there.

Alayna Hall is a Maori woman, scholar, and researcher who is exploring stories as Indigenous research methodology, particularly related to attachment.  She is challenging the Eurocentric models of attachment as developed by Ainsworth and Bowlby and presenting uniquely Maori models of attachment.  It's exciting work.

Louise is part of a research group at the University of British Columbia, exploring Indigenous Theories of Mind.

Linda is a Maori women who wrote the book on Indigenous Methodologies.  She is awesome and you will love this interview!

He just published a book, Guide to Integral Somatic Psychology. We discuss emotions and the body.

Glenn is the Director of the Center for Original Thinking in Albuquerque, NM.  He has a long history of creating dialogue with North American Indigenous people and he shares some of that dialogue. He is the author of Original Thinking and Original Politics and is at work on his newest book, Original Love.

The Concept of Belonging with Sarah Wright, Professor of Geography at the University of New Castle in New South Wales, Australia.

Here is the first part of Patrick McFarlane's discussion with colleagues at Memorial University, Newfoundland, on decolonization and mental health practices.

Here is the second part of Patrick McFarlane's discussion with colleagues at Memorial University, Newfoundland, on decolonization and mental health practices.

Thorben is a Professor at the Institute of Technology in Copenhagen and writes about healing architecture.  It was a great conversation and I think you will enjoy it!

Check out my interview with Moffat Osoro from Nairobi, Kenya, who has created a medical and birthing clinic in a poor area of Nairobi incorporating traditional Kenyan practices into their care. It's called the Fremo Medical and Birth Centre and you can reach him at fremocentre@gmail.com or moffat2002us@yahoo.com. He is always in need of resources and visiting midwives and doctors. Anyone who wishes to donate or visit should email him or contact Laurel Morrow at Midwife Pilgrim in Vermont.

We discuss decolonizing research, health care, and being coyotes nipping at the heals of the mainstream from the shadows of the margins.

I present my views on bipolar disorder -- its definition, treatment, and alternatives.

This is the conclusion of last week's presentation about how I view prescribing psychiatric medications.  Discussion is welcome.

My podcast guest rescheduled at the last moment, so I thought why not share my thoughts about psychiatric prescribing.  So that's exactly what I'm doing.  I will appreciate comments from others and further discussion.

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! 

This talk provides an introduction to the concept and grounds many of our other discussions and episodes

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.

I present a program on how traditional stories teach altruism and concern for others, which we so desperately need these days.

This is my interview with Dr. Lijoi about his work with narrative medicine, his training activities with resident physicians, and his sense of what's what in family medicine today.

This is a short recording of my colleague, Bob Vetter, telling the story of the Peacemaker.

Siseko Kumalo is a South African philosopher at the University of Fort Hare who writes about decolonization, democratic violence, and epistemic genocide.  It was a fascinating conversation and his work is worth reading.  

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.

I am redoing my upload of the end of December, which is my interview with Eduardo Duran, since I apparently uploaded the wrong file.  I'll blame it on Christmas distractions.

As an immigrant to Australia, Francesca noted that its aboriginal cultural healers were largely invisible to most Australians and to the world.  She set out to make their presence more obvious and in the process has created an organization to support traditional cultural healers to practice their craft in Australia.  Lewis interviews her to learn more about how this happened and what the organization is currently doing.  We finish with some more philosophical discussions about healing.

Discussions between Lewis and Allister Bush, psychiatrist at Maori Mental Health Services in New Zealand

We finish the discussion we started last week.  Still, this is more personal than I usually venture.  Allister assures me again that our critical colleagues will not listen and there is much to gain from telling my experiences in case they could benefit others. I hope so.

Allister Bush, a psychiatrist who works with Maori Mental Health Services in New Zealand and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, a psychiatrist who has worked extensively with North American indigenous people discuss their understanding of visions, spirit visitations, and voices.  Allister is interviewing Lewis mostly and it's a deeply personal interview for Lewis, but Allister reassured him that no conventional psychiatrist would ever listen to his podcast and he might as well speak his truth, so here it is....

Margie speaks about her dissertation research at the University of Alaska -- Fairbanks on Cultural Revitalization among the Aleutiq people of Kodiak, Alaska, where she teaches nursing at the University of Alaska -- Anchorage, Kodiak branch. It's a cool study that we think everyone will enjoy.

This is my interview with one of our heroes, Donald Fixico, who is the author of American Indian Mind in a Linear World.  He speaks about this book and his more current work.

This is my presentation from the American Anthropology Association's annual meeting in Baltimore for 2021 on decolonizing mental health.

Dan Janik is a physician and Zachary Oliver an educator who have thought long about capitalism's influence on what we do in health care and in education.  We have a conversation on these topics.  Dan is also the star of a new movie, The Static Movie, in which he plays a man afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease.  It's an amazing movie and I encourage you to watch it.