Homeopathy in Reflexive Perspective

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One framework integrating Jan Scholten's approach to the periodic table, Rajan Sankaran's Kingdom approach and personality psychology in general.

Can it be? The author affirms it can, thanks to the general 'Theory of Process' by Arthur Young.

Similarities between seven issues in eighteen columns, seven issues in seven rows in the periodic table and seven issues in seven kingdoms are highlighted. Most kingdoms in nature can be subdivided in seven subgroups, with corresponding descriptions of each seven.

Many have expressed the wish of a link between homeopathy and the 'mainland' of 'science', be it medicine or psychology. This book supplies a formal one to psychology, but with a strange turn: Frans Maan is very explicit in using the zodiac and Jungian psychology as a bridge between them all.

Inadvertently, there is even an integration of several psychological approaches with one another, including 'horizontal' traits psychology and development theories. An integrative framework should be complex if it is to do justice to homeopathy, psychology, to life.

At the same time the recurring seven issues allow the author to tie the seven issues in with homeopathic materia medica with an emphasis on one row of the periodic table of chemical elements only. That row may function as a bridge to all other sevens.

Apart from the complexity it is straightforward in the proposed patterns and it is surprisingly practical as illustrated by some case histories that are analyzed with the framework as interface.

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Details

Reading the subtitle…

Applying "Theory of Process" from Arthur Young, Volume 1, On Patterns in Personality Pictures in Homeopathic Materia Medica

...one has a foreshadowing of the challenging nature of this book.

Not for the faint of heart.

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Contents

Introduction --1
-What Happened to Me --3
-Grand Unifying Tool: Sevens on Four Levels --4
-A New Interface in Practice --5
-Converging and Diverging Patterns --5
-Strengths and Weaknesses --6
-Details --6

1. A Case as a Motto --8
-Confusion within Homeopathy --9
-Confusing Words --11

2. The Main Ingredients: Sevens and Whiskers --12
-Additional Patterns in Jan Scholten's Metaphor --12
-Arthur Young --20
-Carl Gustav Jung and the Zodiac - 28
-Equivalents -- 32
-Boenninghausen -- 35

3. Anthropomorphic Attributes of the Stages -- 37

4. In Practice -- 52
-Imbalanced Seven and Imbalanced Four -- 52

5. Do it Yourself with the Stripped Stages -- 66
-Example 1: Natrum Muriaticum -- 68
-Example 2: Antimonium Crudum -- 72

6. The Third Row Only and Some Other Tricks -- 75

7. Cases Continued -- 81

8. Four in Process -- 87
-In the Columns -- 87
-In the Rows -- 92
-In the Columns Revisited -- 94
-Intermezzo: Arthur Young -- 102
-In the Kingdoms -- 103
-Four is all we need??? -- 108

9. Cases Continued -- 110
-In Conclusion to the Cases Up Till Now -- 117

10. Inferiorities and Auxiliaries -- 118
-Some Jungian Surprises - 123
-Awareness -- 132
-Rewards of Imbalance -- 134

11. Do it yourself -- 137
-What Natrum Muriaticum is Not -- 140
-Closing Comments on Inferiorities and Auxiliaries -- 142

12. Arthur Young's Kingdom Grid -- 142
-The Light Kingdom -- 144
-The Nuclear Kingdom -- 151
-The Atomic Kingdom -- 151
-The Molecular Kingdom-Concrete Earth -- 151
-The Plant Kingdom -- Enchanting Air -- 160
-The Animal Kingdom -- Transformative Water -- 163
-The Human Kingdom -- 171
-Remarks -- 172

13. Testing the Grid -- 173
-Lycopodium: A First Test of the Grid -- 174
-Thuja: Another Test of the Grid -- 179
-Sepia: One More Test of the Grid -- 182
-Temporarily Confirmed -- 184

14. In Practice II -- 185

15. Hierarchical Differences and Possible Clues -- 192

16. Personality Psychology -- 202
-A Short Note to Psychologists -- 202
-The Big Five -- 204
-AB5C and the Fourth Row -- 216
-Consensus in the Psychological Community? -- 228
-Needs and Motives -- 232
-The Biological Perspective -- 234
-Freud -- 238
-The Development Profile -- 240
-Other Neoanalysts -- 250
-Behaviourism and Social Cognitive -- 252
-The Phenomenological Perspective -- 260
-Cognitive -- 262
-Self-Regulation -- 263
-Comparisons -- 264-265
-The Zodiac as Sophisticated Circumplex?-- 266
-Some Conclusions -- 274
-Back to Practice -- 276

17. Some 'Esoterics' -- 280

Appendix I: Some Quotes and Examples -- 288
-Air -- 288
-Water -- 295
-The Introversion-Extroversion Polarity -- 300
-Quintessence -- 303
-The Functions -- 304

Appendix II:
Some Words to Surprised Jungians -- 306

Appendix III:
A Small Note to Youngians -- 312

Appendix IV:
Summary of the Reflexive Universe
and the Geometry of Meaning -- 313

Appendix V:
What is Homeopathy About? -- 320

Preview of Volume II -- 321
Summing Up -- 324
Some Questions and Answers -- 339
Conclusion -- 351
Bibliography -- 357
Index -- 362
The Do it Yourself Kit -- 372
The Angiosperm Grid -- 382

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