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