Pierre Morin

Pierre Morin, MD, PhD, is copresident of the International Association of Process oriented Psychology (IAPOP) and a faculty member at the Process Work Institute Graduate School in Portland, OR. He was assistant clinical director of Switzerland’s leading rehabilitation clinic for brain and spinal injuries. After moving to Portland, OR, he studied health psychology and rehabilitation psychology. He currently works as a clinical director and supervisor in an outpatient mental health program and in private practice. Dr. Morin co-wrote with Gary Reiss Inside Coma and has written several articles on mind-body medicine and community health.

He has always been interested in health as well as in approaches that facilitate awareness in health care for individual professionals, patients, and health care administrators. As a medical facilitator he believes that communication and relationships are basic principles in health care. He recognizes the many competing subsidiary issues that need to be addressed in a communicative dialogue (i.e. rising health care costs, health disparities). In his books he integrates an adult education paradigm and addresses in addition to all other needs, the power and rank imbalance between health care providers and clients and the dominance of some cultural values over others. He believes in deepening meaning by unfolding individual and community stories and narratives. In contrast to the disenchanted worldview of mainstream medicine in which there is no place for mystery and magic he believes in people’s sentient experiences and dreaming nature. He embraces the idea of a force of life that animates our bodies and selves and tries to foster the self-healing powers within ourselves, which help regain strength and overcome fatigue and sickness.

In his leisure time he plays saxophone and loves cooking for friends and his family. He loves the outdoors and long walks on the Oregon beaches.