Homeopathic Psychology: Personality Profiles of the Major Constitutional Remedies
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By: Philip Bailey
Format: Paperback
From: North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date: October 1995
From: North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date: October 1995
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 1995-11-30
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 417
Ean: 9781556430992
Isbn: 155643099X
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 1995-11-30
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 417
Ean: 9781556430992
Isbn: 155643099X
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
This is a most interesting book that combines psychology with homeopathy. Philip Bailey describes in depth the personality profiles of some 35 polychrests. The last pages of the book cover a mix of psychological astrology and homeopathy when he explores the elements and some polychrests. Bailey provides detailed information on 35 major types, giving insight on diagnosis, mental and emotional traits, and physical characteristics. His broad profiles of major constitutional remedies give the reader a good overall picture of the personality type and therefore ways of remembering facts about the archetype, by having a unifying theory for each remedy.
USER REVIEWS
"I have had problems with ear infections all my life, which ended once I started using a homeopathic rememdy---that made me a believer!
Having said that, I know almost nothing about homeopathy. I moved from the ear remedy to one for stress, which also worked, but these remedies have multiple things in them. Apparently, this is the thing to do when you are trying to mass market a remedy, however I understand that you really should just be taking one thing. After trial and error with the different remedies, I found that sepia was the part that worked. Now I am really anxious to know more. This book will not teach you how much of a remedy to take (which I still need to know), but what he said about the sepia type is information I have been looking for all my life. It has been more valuable to me than I can say. It explains things I experience and why I experience them---which no doctor or yoga guru or anyone else has ever been able to tell me.
This shouldn't be your first book on homeopathy, but if you are buying several books, this is one I'm really glad I bought. I'm back trying to find some nuts and bolts books, and I'm going to buy a handful of books this time, because homeopathy really does work and I think it's worth the investment to try to learn this."
~ Written on 2008-07-04
Having said that, I know almost nothing about homeopathy. I moved from the ear remedy to one for stress, which also worked, but these remedies have multiple things in them. Apparently, this is the thing to do when you are trying to mass market a remedy, however I understand that you really should just be taking one thing. After trial and error with the different remedies, I found that sepia was the part that worked. Now I am really anxious to know more. This book will not teach you how much of a remedy to take (which I still need to know), but what he said about the sepia type is information I have been looking for all my life. It has been more valuable to me than I can say. It explains things I experience and why I experience them---which no doctor or yoga guru or anyone else has ever been able to tell me.
This shouldn't be your first book on homeopathy, but if you are buying several books, this is one I'm really glad I bought. I'm back trying to find some nuts and bolts books, and I'm going to buy a handful of books this time, because homeopathy really does work and I think it's worth the investment to try to learn this."
~ Written on 2008-07-04
"While I would have liked a more clinical approach, this book has a lot of excellent information. For some of the constitutional types the author dsecribes, the descriptions are too general and vague, but even in those chapters, there is a lot of very useful information. I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting a more in depth understanding of constitutional types."
~ Written on 2007-08-24
~ Written on 2007-08-24
"This book is a great back-up reference for aspiring or practicing homeopaths (or, truthfully, for anyone wanting better understanding of why some people act the way they do).
I think the author is a great writer. He really paints full pictures of the various remedy types he covers.
In reality though, I have found that no one is only one remedy type (constitution); people generally have a few "constitutions" that predominate. This is why not everything he says about a type is true. The profiles must be taken in holistically and intuitively, not as set in stone.
The only "problem" I have with this author is his never changing doses of 10M. This is really bad advice!! I take the LM potencies -- 10Ms would not only jar my system, but they simply don't go deep enough or last long enough to bring cure. Hahnemann created the LM potencies specifically because 20% of his patients didn't heal all the way with the C potencies (M potencies are at the high end of the C scale). And even if a patient doesn't want to do the LMs, he may need a 200C or a 30C or who knows? But all patients, most certainly (!) do not "automatically" need or respond favorably to the 10M potency. Potency is a very, very individual thing (see Sankaran's work, or read Neil Tessler's interview with Divya Chhabra as two examples of the highly individualist nature of choosing the best potency for each individual patient)."
~ Written on 2007-05-18
I think the author is a great writer. He really paints full pictures of the various remedy types he covers.
In reality though, I have found that no one is only one remedy type (constitution); people generally have a few "constitutions" that predominate. This is why not everything he says about a type is true. The profiles must be taken in holistically and intuitively, not as set in stone.
The only "problem" I have with this author is his never changing doses of 10M. This is really bad advice!! I take the LM potencies -- 10Ms would not only jar my system, but they simply don't go deep enough or last long enough to bring cure. Hahnemann created the LM potencies specifically because 20% of his patients didn't heal all the way with the C potencies (M potencies are at the high end of the C scale). And even if a patient doesn't want to do the LMs, he may need a 200C or a 30C or who knows? But all patients, most certainly (!) do not "automatically" need or respond favorably to the 10M potency. Potency is a very, very individual thing (see Sankaran's work, or read Neil Tessler's interview with Divya Chhabra as two examples of the highly individualist nature of choosing the best potency for each individual patient)."
~ Written on 2007-05-18
"After reading, I am not sure if this book is an objective description the constitutional types or a ranking of Phillip Bailey's personal favorites. It is easy to pick up on a theme that the author has some kind of personal problem with the idiosyncrasies of the majority of the consitutional types. He goes on and on about silica, sulphur and phosphorous which he loves and basically trashes most of the others. It comes off as very judgemental.
He states with authority some concepts in here which are highly questionable. He states over and over that people can willy-nilly change constitutions, for any number of reasons, as they age. He also describes specific disease states as constitution types (e.g. tuberculinum). His thoughts on the "layering" of constitutions are muddled and leave you asking "does this guy think people really have a core constitutional type or not !?". When you start call the emotional state-of-the-day a "constitutional type" per se then that sort of waters down the concept of a constitutal type to nil doesn't it?
I also was skeptical about the claimed "rarity" of seemingly not-too-uncommon constitutional types (e.g. a male pulsatilla). If fact the -constant- gender polarization is annoying and I think misguided. Am I the only one who thinks this author does not like women very much?
Ok having aired my complaints, thanks to Phillip Bailey on addressing a subject in need with an interesting style. There are many intersting comments (and fewer facts) in the book. This is not a great book but I don't know of a better one on the subject.
"
~ Written on 2006-06-27
He states with authority some concepts in here which are highly questionable. He states over and over that people can willy-nilly change constitutions, for any number of reasons, as they age. He also describes specific disease states as constitution types (e.g. tuberculinum). His thoughts on the "layering" of constitutions are muddled and leave you asking "does this guy think people really have a core constitutional type or not !?". When you start call the emotional state-of-the-day a "constitutional type" per se then that sort of waters down the concept of a constitutal type to nil doesn't it?
I also was skeptical about the claimed "rarity" of seemingly not-too-uncommon constitutional types (e.g. a male pulsatilla). If fact the -constant- gender polarization is annoying and I think misguided. Am I the only one who thinks this author does not like women very much?
Ok having aired my complaints, thanks to Phillip Bailey on addressing a subject in need with an interesting style. There are many intersting comments (and fewer facts) in the book. This is not a great book but I don't know of a better one on the subject.
"
~ Written on 2006-06-27
"As a Homeopathy student I have found this book extremely helpful as I thought it would be.
Thank you for asking.
Gloria:)"
~ Written on 2005-10-24
Thank you for asking.
Gloria:)"
~ Written on 2005-10-24