In this book the author presents his own view of the personality profiles of 35 major homeopathic remedies, the sole result of the author's clinical experience. These remedy pictures differ from the classical presentations. Bailey has included information about mental behaviours, internal conflicts, emotional tendencies, spiritual concerns and physical appearances. He has also given the male to female ratio for each constitutional type.
'Dr Philip Bailey's penetrating discussion of thirty-five different remedies carries the stamp of clinical authority and scholarship. His introductory chapter provides a number of clinical pearls with regard to history taking. The book offers a unique elemental analysis of constitutional types showing how homeopathy and other medical systems may one day be linked. Homeopathic Psychology is an important addition to the dialogue between homeopathy and psychiatry.'
Philip Bailey trained as a medical doctor at Westminster Hospital Medical School. He studied homeopathy at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and with Greek homeopath George Vithoulkas. He spent three months at Esalen Institute studying gestalt therapy, and has had personal experience of Jungian, Primal and Breathwork therapies. Dr Bailey works in Perth, Australia as a medical doctor and homeopath and lectures frequently on homeopathy.
It is my hope that this book will help satisfy a need that, to a large extent. has remained inadequately served to this date; the need of homeopaths for an accurate and realistic description of the personalities of the constitutional remedies. The old materia medicas that we rely upon so heavily describe only the crudest and most extreme elements of the mental picture of each rem- edy, missing the subtleties that we actually find in the minds of our patients. I hope that this book will help to bridge that gap, and hence enable both the student and practising homeopath to relate more easily to real personalities, rather than caricatures.
In my experience, the mentals are still the least understood, and the most underdeveloped aspect of homeopathic prescribing. Yet the personality of the patient is at least as important as the physical characteristics in individualising the case and finding the similimum. So often remedies are prescribed on the basis of a few physical symptoms, along with gross simpli- fications of the patient's personality, and fail to act. This gives the unfortunate impression that homeopathy is a vague and unreliable practice. It also gives rise to the relatively common attitude amongst homeopaths that the patient belongs to several constitutional types simultaneously, any of which will help at any given time. This is nothing more than an excuse for inaccuracy, and it results in the homeopath failing to persist with case taking and analysis to the point where the mentals are truly understood.
It is true that some patients have more than one layer of pathology, and that each layer corresponds to a different remedy, but the layers must be dealt with in the right sequence if progress is to be made, and the personality of the patient at any given time will correspond primarily to the most superficial layer, which represents the present frequency of the patient's vital force.
By familiarising himself or herself thoroughly with the personalities of the major constitutional remedies, the homeopath can avoid endless hours of confusion and uncertainty in case taking, and can rapidly become an effective prescriber.
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