This work studies mental symptoms as they relate to homeopathic prescribing. Mental symptoms are of particular importance in homeopathy as they reflect the deepest aspect of the patient who experiences them and the remedies which evoke them; in many cases, they take precedence over general and local symptoms, even when these have constituted the original complaint. When correctly selected and matched, they can lead to a lasting cure. The first part of this book studies 194 rubrics relating to mental symptoms, drawn primarily from Kent's "Repertory", but also from Barthel and Klunker's "Synthetic Repertory". The rubrics are given in alphabetical order - nearly always singly, but occasionally in small, related groups - and are discussed in modern terms, referring wherever appropriate to rubrics of other mental symptoms for contrast or comparison. The discussion is amplified by frequent reference to examples from the author's case-book. Many of the sections end with extracts of material medica from Allen's "Encylopaedia of Pure Materia Medica", the major source material for Kent's work. The second part consists of the unedited transcripts of six initial consultations taken by the author during clinical classes. Each of the verbatim interviews is followed by questions, discussion, repertorization and the reasons for choosing the remedy. They are intended to show how a homeopath may open a case and how symptoms can come to light during the patient's first account of his or her complaint. The book has comprehensive rubric and remedy indices. Dr Luis Detinis qualified in medicine in 1972 at the University of Buenos Aires. He qualified in homeopathy in the same year at the Argentine School of Homeopathic Medicine, studying under the late Dr Tomas Pablo Paschero.

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Rubrics: abusive; affectionate; anger, irascibility; anticipation, complaints from; anxiety, conscience of (as if guilty of a crime); anxiety, future, about; anxiety, health, about; audacity; rashness; avarice; covetous; miserly; business, averse to; capriciousness; wants something, he knows not what; refuses things asked for; carried, desires to be; cautious; censorious, critical; fault-finding; chaotic; childish behaviour; clairvoyance; communicative; company, aversion to, dreads being alone, yet; complaining; grumbling; confidence, want of self; conscientious about trifles; scrupulous; consolation agg; contemptuous; contradict, disposition to; contradiction, is intolerant of; anger, contradiction from; contrary; cowardice; cruelty; hard-hearted; dancing; deceitful; duplicity; defiant; delusions, persecuted, that he is; destructiveness; dictatorial; dogmatic; domineering; dirtiness; disobedience; dwells on past disagreeable; occurences; egotism; ennui; envy; fanaticism; fear; fear, accidents of; fear, alone of being; fear, animals, of; fear, crowd, in a; fear, dark; fear, death, of; fear, destination, of being unable to reach his; fear, disease, of impending; fear, evil, of; fear, noise, from; fear, poverty; fear, ruin financial, of; fear, want, of; fear, public places, of; fear, riding, when in a carriage; fear, robbers, of; fear, stomach, arising from; stomach, apprehension, in; fear, thunderstorm, of; foolish behaviour; silly; buffoonery; forebodings; forsaken feeling; loneliness; frivolous; frown, disposed to; grief, ailments, from; grief, silent; haughty; arrogance; pride; imperious; heedless; careless; helplessness, feeling of; home, desires to leave; homesickness; hopeful; hopeless; horrible things, sad stories, affect her profoundly; hurry; impatience; impertinence; impetuous; impulsive; inconsolable; inconstancy; indifference; indifference, everything, to; indifference, loved ones, to; indifference, others, toward; indifference, personal appearance; indifference, pleasure, to; indignation; indolence, aversion to work; ambition, loss of; industrious; work, mania to; activity, desires; insolent; introspection; irresolution; irritability, menses, before; irritability, waking, on; jealousy; jesting; facetiousness; humorous; lamenting, bemoaning, wailing; laughing, serious matters, over; lie, never speaks the truth; liar; loquacity; love, ailments, from disappointed; magnetized, desires to be; malicious; meddlesome; memory, weakness of; mildness; gentleness; misanthropy; mischievousness; moaning, groaning; whining; mocking; facetiousness; moral, feeling, want of; mortification, ailments after; chagrin; obstinate; headstrong; stubborn; occupation, amel; offended, easily; positiveness; postponing everything to next day; precocity; quarrelsome; contentious; scolding; reserved; rudeness; sadness, cloudy weather; scorn, ailments from; secretive; selfishness; sensitive, noise, slightest; sensitive, sensual impressions, to. (Part contents).