In the seventh episode of the neurodissent podcast, we look back over our first six episodes. We discuss some of the major ideas we’ve covered so far: the role of communities in care, the healing power of belief, and the millennia-old conflict between medicine and spirituality. We also consider how practices still in use today by indigenous groups carry on millennia-old traditions of love, wonder, and healing that resist the individualizing and isolating forces of psychiatry and capitalism.
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I use open access sources in my scholarship, so that listeners and readers can engage with the texts I use. The sources referred to in this episode are listed below.
References for Season 1, Episode 7 “Love, Wonder, & Healing”
- Dupuis-Rossi, Riel. 2021. The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom. International Journal of Indigenous Health.
- Flannery, Frances. 2017. Talitha Qum! An Exploration of the Image of Jesus as Healer-Physician Savior in the Synoptic Gospels in Relation to the Asclepius Cult, In Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean. McGill University Library.
- Foucault, Michel. 1965. Madness & Civilization: A History Of Insanity In The Age Of Reason. Random House.
- Hedge Coke, Allison. 2014. Miracle Madness. Disability Studies Quarterly.
- Jerome. 390. The Life of S. Hilarion. Translated by Philip Schaff.
- On the sacred disease. ~400 BC. Translated by Francis Adams.
- Stanley-Baker, Michael. 2022. Daoism and medicine. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine edited by Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker. Routledge.
- van Aarde, Andries G. 2019. Christus medicus – Christus patiens: Healing as exorcism in context. HTS Theological Studies.
Other credits
Music: “Grit” by Shaolin Dub, licensed use
Image: “A crippled girl discarding her crutches after being healed” by Jean-Louis Forain, 1912, via Wikimedia Commons.
