Where mysticism meets medicine, Seattle Times, 26/11/2006
Mother heard voices and is treated with ECT, daughter becomes a shaman.
"We would say that an herb has an active ingredient" that promotes healing, she said. "A shaman would say that there is a powerful spirit doctor in that herb."
The kinds of experiences that led her mother to ruin have enriched her and made her life whole and far more potent, she said.
"So am I crazy like my mother after all?" she writes in her book. "If I am, so be it."
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