Doctor of Osteopathy & Holistic Psychiatry
My Training
"I am ever grateful for your love, protection, guidance and for supporting my continuously evolution as a healer who is in direct contact with intuition, spirit and my true nature. Thank you for the ever sharpening of my vision which allows me to see how to participate, increasingly skillfully, as a karma yogi, in the healing and self-actualization of all beings I come into contact with!"
Dr. Dylewski's Prayer
Licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board to practice medicine in California (#20A6529) and Michigan (#5101011402) since 1993.
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Psychiatry Residency Graduation and entrance into private practice in 1996.
“I regard it as the foremost task of education: to ensure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self-denial, and above all, compassion” -Kurt Hahn, Founder, Outward Bound
Medical School Training
Michigan State University
Doctor of Osteopathy
I attended Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine from 1987-1991. This is where I learned the foundations of the Osteopathic and the holistic philosophy which guides my philosophical approach to healing. I graduated from this excellent medical school in 1991. I say I am a "tried and true Osteopath" because I practice this philosophy and live its ideals. This is when I began my formal training in medicine however something in me drew me to taking training in the energetic system called Reiki when I was in high school. I remember during the two levels of Reiki training I took back in the early 1980s, continually asking myself "What are you doing here?" What I did know for sure was I could feel this energy they were teaching about being a conduit for. I also remember in my first year of medical school in OMT (Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment-now call OMM-Manual Medicine) courses being able to feel it when other students were saying "I can't feel it!"
General Rotating Internship
Detroit Osteopathic Hospital & BiCounty Community Hospital
I was required to complete for my D.O. training one year of rotating through general medical services to have a well-rounded view of how medicine operates in the hospital. I did this year at Detroit Osteopathic Hospital and at BiCounty Community Hospital in Warren Michigan in 1991-1992. Here is where it was time to decide what field of medicine I was going to pursue further training in. My initial leanings were pediatrics, Ear, Nose, and Throat and Radiation Oncology. My budding interest in mind-body medicine and psychology leads me to submit all my applications to Radiation Oncology residency spots. How I got to psychiatry, my bliss, my passion, my purpose in this life, is an interesting story of spiritual unfoldment for another time. However, to summarize, a number of synchronicities lead to a sudden shift into a psychiatry residency. At this point, I had never taken a psychology 101 course!
Psychiatry Residency Phase 1
Wayne State University
The psychiatry training at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan was a psychoanalytically based residency located in the trenches of a state mental hospital with the sickest of the sick. There was intuitively something about this "Freudian" orientation that just didn't make sense to me but I loved thinking about early child development and what was happening in the mind of an infant, toddler, and beyond as their neurons were growing most rapidly.
During this first year of training, one of my best friends and fellow resident suggested I do a course of psychoanalysis as he was doing and enjoying immensely. I was eager to try out this psychotherapy thing I imagined I would be practicing yet had always been drawn to doing an Outward Bound outdoor program. Outward Bound is a wilderness education program that emphasizes high achievement through active learning, character development, and teamwork. So I signed up to do a 14-day mountaineering course in the California Sierras in July of 1993.
As part of this experience, all participants must complete a 2-day SOLO where as the name implies you are left alone in the wilderness for 2 days but required to stay in one prescribed area and much like a Native American vision quest you are fasting. Well, on the first night of my solo while in my tent just falling asleep I was roused by a loud voice very emphatically stating or demanding "GET OUT OF MICHIGAN NOW or you will NEVER GET OUT of Michigan!" I had 36 hours to contemplate this experience. At the time I was a good Catholic boy and felt that God had spoken to me (really yelled at me!) so after the course completed I interviewed at residencies in southern California where I had a brother already living. To my great surprise, a spot was open where I was to begin...
Psychiatry Residency Phase 2
University of California Irvine
After having that "spiritual epiphany" while on my 2 day solo I rapidly transferred (October 1993) into a vacated residency spot at the University of California, Irvine, (UCI) to begin Phase 2 of my training. This program was philosophically a more biologically based residency program. Here is where I learned the basics of psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry. In addition, I met key people who opened my eyes to Eastern spiritual traditions and practices, shamanism, transpersonal psychology and the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber. Despite UCI's neurobiologically reductionistic leanings the program had some great teachers and mentors.
Owner's Manual to your Mind
There are 2 sides of every coin: you set the pace of your healing journey and at the same time please know I jokingly call myself “The Impatient Therapist” who says there is no time to waste, life is short, therapy can be expensive and there is no time to waste in becoming emotionally intelligent!
Methodology of Practice
How does one NOT become dependent on that pill psychologically or physically? Since there is no strong evidence basis in scientific research for a "chemical imbalance" that so many in our society have come to believe is at the root of their struggle, we must search out more holistic methods of evolving.