Aboriginal healing in Canada : Guérison autochtone au Canada : études sur la conception thérapeutique et la pratique

The production of this project was funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), but the views expressed in this report are the personal views of the author(s). [...] She is a medical anthropologist who works and publishes primarily in the area of First Nations health and is the author of Being Alive Well: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being, published in 2000. [...] His recent books include Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples, published in 2004, and The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons, published in 1997. [...] The third goal was to contribute to theoretical understandings of the process of healing and the development of appropriate research methodologies to study it. [...] There is extensive use of quotation in each of the chapters that follow, in order to include as much as possible the voices of participants in the research.