Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #317520 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-30
• Released on: 1995-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 417 pages

Review
"This book gives insights into the basic nature of many important remedies. It is well-written and accurate. I recommend it to all serious students of homeopathy."
- Roger Morrison, M.D.

"Homeopathic Psychology furthers our understanding of the psychology of the major homeopathic remedies. Dr. Baliey explains well our existing knowledge of the remedies and broadens our understanding of them, providing numerous highly original observations. His descriptions of the psychogenesis and psychodynamics of the remedies is engrossing."
- George Guess, M.D., DHt

About the Author
Dr. Bailey studied homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and with George Vithoulkas. He has also studied gestalt therapy and has had personal experience of Jungian, Primal and breathwork therapies.

Customer Reviews

I'm glad I bought it
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.

Review of Homeopathic Psychology
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.

Excellent Insights
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).