Thanks CLOSLER for publishing a series of 5 short articles on Circle Medicine!

I have been working on this concept of Circle Medicine since I had the realization that a number of different holistic models I was working with all included circles: the Hero’s Journey, the Medicine Wheel, the Circle of Re-humanizing Medicine, the Circle of Health, and Circle Medicine: the circle of circles.

In our forthcoming book, Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into A Living Spirituality, we have a table comparing Circle Medicine with Linear Medicine. Linear medicine is the predominant, biomedical approach in contemporary medical practice, however it misses crucial aspects of human being that are only found in holistic, circular models of medicine.

Linear Medicine	Circular Medicine
Pathological Process	Natural Process
Treatment	Transformation
Elimination of symptoms	Acceptance of symptoms
Restoring old state	Achieving new state
Disease-based	Health-based
Biomedical Model	Holistic Model
Evidence-Based Medicine	Human-Based Medicine
Hierarchical	Collaborative
Can Foster Dependency	Empowering

Here are links to each of the short articles:

CIRCLE MEDICINE: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH FOR CLINICIANS AND PATIENTS

THE HEALING CIRCLE AS A HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK

THE CIRCLE OF RE-HUMANIZING MEDICINE

THE CIRCLE OF WHOLE HEALTH

CIRCLE MEDICINE