Advanced Guide for Professional Homeopaths
Language
English
Type
Hardback
Publisher
Full of Life
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The Advanced Guide for Professional Homeopaths completes the trio of valuable reference books for the professional homeopath. Building on previous works, Hahnemann Revisited and Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum, this book will help homeopaths overcome challenging obstacles to their own difficult cases.
The topics of potency selection and miasms are revisited to make them more practical for the homeopathic practice, suggesting a golden middle way, a path about results instead of passions.
New topics are also presented: 11 questions the practitioner must ask him or herself in order to find the simillimum with maximum confidence. The epidemic of 'special needs children' that we are witnessing at this time is addressed with a chapter focusing on the intrauterine experience. Herings observations are amplified with additions, either from the practice or from other modalities such as psychology and Traditional Chinese Medicine. And this book builds the bridge to the next book: Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams, and Homeopathy. Beyond Jung explains the most interesting and advanced method to find the simillimum by using Carl Jung's definition of a core delusion, plus the patient's etiology and their compensations.
The topics of potency selection and miasms are revisited to make them more practical for the homeopathic practice, suggesting a golden middle way, a path about results instead of passions.
New topics are also presented: 11 questions the practitioner must ask him or herself in order to find the simillimum with maximum confidence. The epidemic of 'special needs children' that we are witnessing at this time is addressed with a chapter focusing on the intrauterine experience. Herings observations are amplified with additions, either from the practice or from other modalities such as psychology and Traditional Chinese Medicine. And this book builds the bridge to the next book: Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams, and Homeopathy. Beyond Jung explains the most interesting and advanced method to find the simillimum by using Carl Jung's definition of a core delusion, plus the patient's etiology and their compensations.
| ISBN | 9780942501155 |
|---|---|
| Author | Luc de Schepper |
| Type | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2008 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Publisher | Full of Life |
| Review | This book review is reprinted with the permission of Winter 2008 Edition of The Homeopath. The Soceity of Homeopaths Reviewed by Wendy Howard Luc De Schepper is a well-known Belgian homeopath, author, scholar and teacher, resident in the USA since 1981. He is a staunch Hahnemannian, advocating a methodology based on the 6th edition Organon, while bringing aspects of Jungian psychology and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into his teachings. The book is printed in the US with sturdy binding and a substantial and beverage-resistant cover. Text is large and legible though pages are crowded and typographically confusing. Its purpose is to create a bridge between De Schepper's earlier works - Hahnemann Revisited and Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum - and his next book, Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams and Homeopathy. There are two parts: Advanced Case Taking and Advanced Management, the first taking up roughly two thirds of the book. The opening premise is that there are a number of questions homeopaths fail to ask in case taking which, if they did, would solve any challenge they are likely to meet. Each of these 11 questions are then dealt with in turn through the subsequent chapters, bringing in common versus characteristic symptoms, layers, aetiology, core delusion, constitution, Jung's psychological types, miasmatic states and the relevance of pregnancy to childhood pathology. The second part covers potency selection, miasms again, and a discussion of Hering's observations on direction of cure, introducing a TCM perspective. This book is comprehensive, informative, well researched and distilled, and clearly explained. It is full of good solid advice, both theoretical and practical, very much in the mould of Hahnemann, Kent, Close and Vithoulkas. Yet it is also a book of disconcerting contradictions, which intrude uncomfortably on the narrative. De Schepper talks of avoiding conceptual boxes, of 'going with the flow', which he claims comes naturally and instinctively to him, yet for much of the book he is writing in a highly prescriptive, systematised vein, talking about what a homeopath "must" do. Glowing testimonials on the book cover, to his warm, deeply caring nature, sit uneasily with text that barely misses an opportunity to dismiss the work of other homeopaths. His thorough research into Hahnemann's methods is let down by frequent comments like "most homeopaths do not.. .", which appear to be unsupported assumptions. Advancing the perceived superiority of your own perspective and experience by denigrating other, often equally valid, approaches is a wellestablished tradition in homeopathy (e.g. Hahnemann, Kent, Vithoulkas) but good work should be capable of standing on its own merits. |
Review
This book review is reprinted with the permission of Winter 2008 Edition of The Homeopath.
The Soceity of Homeopaths
www.homeopathy-soh.org
Reviewed by Wendy Howard
Luc De Schepper is a well-known Belgian homeopath, author, scholar and teacher, resident in the USA since 1981. He is a staunch Hahnemannian, advocating a methodology based on the 6th edition Organon, while bringing aspects of Jungian psychology and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into his teachings.
The book is printed in the US with sturdy binding and a substantial and beverage-resistant cover. Text is large and legible though pages are crowded and typographically confusing.
Its purpose is to create a bridge between De Schepper's earlier works - Hahnemann Revisited and Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum - and his next book, Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams and Homeopathy. There are two parts: Advanced Case Taking and Advanced Management, the first taking up roughly two thirds of the book.
The opening premise is that there are a number of questions homeopaths fail to ask in case taking which, if they did, would solve any challenge they are likely to meet. Each of these 11 questions are then dealt with in turn through the subsequent chapters, bringing in common versus characteristic symptoms, layers, aetiology, core delusion, constitution, Jung's psychological types, miasmatic states and the relevance of pregnancy to childhood pathology.
The second part covers potency selection, miasms again, and a discussion of Hering's observations on direction of cure, introducing a TCM perspective.
This book is comprehensive, informative, well researched and distilled, and clearly explained. It is full of good solid advice, both theoretical and practical, very much in the mould of Hahnemann, Kent, Close and Vithoulkas. Yet it is also a book of disconcerting contradictions, which intrude uncomfortably on the narrative. De Schepper talks of avoiding conceptual boxes, of 'going with the flow', which he claims comes naturally and instinctively to him, yet for much of the book he is writing in a highly prescriptive, systematised vein, talking about what a homeopath "must" do. Glowing testimonials on the book cover, to his warm, deeply caring nature, sit uneasily with text that barely misses an opportunity to dismiss the work of other homeopaths. His thorough research into Hahnemann's methods is let down by frequent comments like "most homeopaths do not.. .", which appear to be unsupported assumptions.
Advancing the perceived superiority of your own perspective and experience by denigrating other, often equally valid, approaches is a wellestablished tradition in homeopathy (e.g. Hahnemann, Kent, Vithoulkas) but good work should be capable of standing on its own merits.