Transcript: Kenneth H. York, Ph.D.
Traditional healing addresses spirituality while modern medicine does not
- [Lindberg:]
- Well, in the case of diabetes if it’s really bad, you’ve got to have insulin.
- [York:]
- Yes.
- [Lindberg:]
- But before that if you lose weight, manage diet, manage exercise, you might get better anyway. Is that the type of thing that the Native healing would do?
- [York:]
- Not only that.
- [Lindberg:]
- What would they do?
- [York:]
- Native healing includes psychology—
- [Lindberg:]
- Sure.
- [York:]
- —and some spirituality as well. So I think by doing that process of healing it helps our people. Where if you go to a modern health center, then they’ll do a diagnosis and recommend treatment, and that’s about it. They really don’t go into what I consider spirituality.