The healer and the shrink

The healer and the shrink

Grace was 11 when she started hearing voices and seeing visions. She heard a man’s voice telling her to harm herself and had repeated visions of a man watching her. She’d begun suffering flashbacks, nightmares and disturbed sleep after watching her father assault her mother nine months early. A chapter from the recently published book Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry tells the story of Grace’s healing session at Heal…