We know Dr Hahnemann, as “Father of Psychiatry”, who was contemporary to Philippe Pinel a Frenchmen who treated insane in an innovative way opposing the ill treatment to insane. Dr Hahnemann was known to use human treatment for the insane by the case of Klockenbring of Georgenthal.
But prior to that he should be noticed as a great Psychologist, as he had tried to pursue the basic state of human focusing on emotion, perception and intellect.
He insisted physician to be a keen observer, to observe the state of the mind of patient from where all symptoms appear and which lead to individualize remedy. The referred aphorism to mind and disposition, state of mind are aphorism 6, aphorism 83, aphorism 88, aphorism 208, aphorism 211, aphorism 212, aphorism 213, and aphorism 253. This reference suggests that Dr Hahnemann had given much importance to the study of mind, predisposition and traits of the patient, which is the bedrock of basic psychology. Thus every proven remedy also show characteristic of its own when proven on healthy human being, like immaturity of Baryta carbonica, inertia of Calcarea carbonica, emotional roller coaster of Ignatia.
Including psychology in the syllabus will accomplish the task of homoeopath to clear fundamental vision of cognition, conation and affect. After which the physician would be accurately observing the deviated mental symptoms.
Through this short MCQ book our attempt is to make a blend of all homoeopathic subjects for clinical purview.
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