https://philosophicmedicine.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-11-08 https://philosophicmedicine.com/blog/finding-your-way monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://philosophicmedicine.com/blog/part3-being-wrong-being-wronged-and-forgiving monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://philosophicmedicine.com/blog/part2-being-wrong-being-wronged-and-forgiving monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://philosophicmedicine.com/blog/part1-being-wrong-being-wronged-and-forgiving monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://philosophicmedicine.com/appa-code-of-ethics daily 0.75 2021-03-24 https://philosophicmedicine.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-06-19 https://philosophicmedicine.com/work-with-me daily 0.75 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbdd5b40f3dd315bb45361e/1624143513873-OW7EBJCWIZR8PI9LEGB9/octopus.png https://philosophicmedicine.com/about daily 0.75 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbdd5b40f3dd315bb45361e/1616784985368-FSGFMV03BDT5ZN6YAFHW/NickHarrison-2020.jpg About - Nick Harrison, Ph.D. Philosopher, teacher, and Healer I was born and raised in Southwestern, CT. My family hold nothing in higher esteem than education, but I was a very poor student. Disorganized, unmotivated by grades, largely uninterested in the curricula, but passionate and highly imaginative, I was perpetually in trouble with my teachers. Like many in my peer group I was diagnosed with ADHD and given a daily stimulant to function better within the confines of the classroom. In high school I was diagnosed with depression and medicated; after narrowly graduating, I began to self-identify as an alcohol, cannabis, and amphetamine addict. Encouraged by my family after a series of false starts, I enrolled a few years later at the local university, clean and sober and determined to finally succeed academically. I quickly discovered that philosophy, at least as it was presented by my first teacher, was exactly the discipline I needed. It could train my wild mind by the pure ecstasy of using it well. After about a decade of formal philosophical study, I was overwhelmed by an instantaneous realization that this material, typically reserved for specialists and academics, has incredible potential as a healing tool—philosophic medicine. I had already been using philosophy this way for most of my life; I knew it worked. Because I’d long suspected my struggles with mental health were more complicated than any institution was equipped to appreciate, my research interests developed organically around a complex of relationships between self-conception, health & disease, and moral education. Although my scholarly work is in the philosophy of science and biomedical/research ethics, as a professor and practitioner I am much indebted to Asian philosophy, stoicism, North American indigenous philosophy, pragmatism, existentialism, feminism, critical race theory, deep ecology, and mysticism. As a certified client counselor of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA), I teach individuals, couples, and small groups how to develop habits of philosophical thinking that can clarify and solve (or often dissolve) many problems of living. I live with my partner and two dogs in Western Massachusetts and work with clients worldwide. https://philosophicmedicine.com/welcome daily 1.0 2025-11-08