Case Taking - Part Three: Best Practice and Creating Meaning in the Consultation Room (The Landscape of Homeopathic Medicine Book 1)

Foreword......Page 4
Introduction to the Series......Page 8
Critical Thinking......Page 9
The Need for Clarity......Page 10
Scope of Practice......Page 11
Homeopathy Under Pressure and Under Attack......Page 13
The Change in Emphasis within Homeopathic Education......Page 16
Research......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Contributors......Page 22
Introduction to Case Taking......Page 25
Chapter 1 Introduction......Page 27
The Need for Best Practice......Page 28
This Book......Page 30
Requirements of the Case Taker?......Page 34
Searching the Literature......Page 35
Patient-Centered Medicine and the Relationship......Page 41
Chapter 10 The Therapeutic Relationship in Homeopathy – Ben Gadd......Page 43
Why a Therapeutic Relationship?......Page 45
What Patients Want from a Consultation......Page 46
Common Elements in the Therapeutic Relationship......Page 48
Homeopathy and Psychotherapy......Page 50
Homeopathic and Allopathic Consultations......Page 52
Placebo......Page 54
Empathy......Page 56
Patient-centredness......Page 58
Therapeutic Alliance and Compassion......Page 60
Impact of Homeopathic Process and Philosophy of Disease......Page 62
Chapter 11 Conclusions......Page 68
Healthy Schizophrenia......Page 69
Linear Case Taking......Page 70
Best Practice......Page 71
Beautiful Silence......Page 74
Spontaneity and Transparent Responses......Page 76
Projections, Assumptions, Speculation......Page 77
Sleuthing for the Case......Page 79
Other Case Taking Concepts......Page 80
Fishing......Page 81
Poker......Page 83
Steaming the Mussel......Page 84
Clear Education and Answering Questions......Page 85
Getting to the Centre of the Case......Page 86
Psychoanalytic......Page 88
Jungian......Page 89
Synthetic Case Taking Skills......Page 90
Improving Clinical Case Taking Skills - Predilection and Practice......Page 91
The Role of Intuition......Page 92
Random Directives before Case Taking......Page 94
Reflective Questions for the Homeopath......Page 95
Reflective Questions for the Client......Page 98
Patient-Centred, Person-Centred and the Relationship......Page 99
Self-Disclosure......Page 101
Final Conclusions Case Taking......Page 103