Can homeopathy learn something from psychoanalysis?

Abstract

This paper attempts to demonstrate how some insights from psychoanalysis can be useful in homeopathic treatment. I discuss three concepts:

(1) The working alliance : comparing medical alliance with a psychodynamic alliance.

(2) The dream-function : serious somatic disorders can be the result of a blocked dream function, the restoration of the capacity to dream may lead to the disappearance of these disorders, homeopathy can help in this process.

(3) The transgenerational influence : some traumatic, concealed events from the lives of ancestors can influence their descendants.

I illustrate these concepts with the case of a 23-year-old woman with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Keywords

working alliance - dream function - transgenerational influence - consultation - therapeutic relationship - opium - psychoanalysis

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