This is a most interesting book that combines psychology with homeopathy. Philip Bailey describes in depth the personality profiles of some 35 polychrests. The last pages of the book cover a mix of psychological astrology and homeopathy when he explores the elements and some polychrests. Bailey provides detailed information on 35 major types, giving insight on diagnosis, mental and emotional traits, and physical characteristics. His broad profiles of major constitutional remedies give the reader a good overall picture of the personality type and therefore ways of remembering facts about the archetype, by having a unifying theory for each remedy.
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A Very interesting book, worth reading.,
Because my husband is a Homeopath, I came across this book and couldn’t put it down. It really shows the different constitutional types, in the thinking and feeling processes. It’s farely easy to find your own through reading the book, and shows how much of how we act in in our typing. I really enjoyed this information, and shared it with friends who also found great value in it. In the book “The Complete Guide to Homeopathy”, there is a good test for quickly finding out your consitutional type also. Its a good combination book to go with this book. Thanks :-)
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|In-depth, esoteric look at homeopathic consitutional types..,
This book is primarily intended for the trained homeopath, not the layperson. It is an in-depth look at the more common homeopathic constitutional types. That being said, it’s a fabulous book, filled with excellent information that the author gleaned from years of work as a homepath.
Bailey provides detailed information on 35 major types, giving insight on diagnosis, mental and emotional traits, and physical characteristics. This book should really only be used by a trained and certified homeopath, but it does provide fascinating reading for us laypersons. Great book!
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|Too much bias,
After reading, I am not sure if this book is an objective description the constitutional types or a ranking of Phillip Bailey’s personal favorites. It is easy to pick up on a theme that the author has some kind of personal problem with the idiosyncrasies of the majority of the consitutional types. He goes on and on about silica, sulphur and phosphorous which he loves and basically trashes most of the others. It comes off as very judgemental.
He states with authority some concepts in here which are highly questionable. He states over and over that people can willy-nilly change constitutions, for any number of reasons, as they age. He also describes specific disease states as constitution types (e.g. tuberculinum). His thoughts on the “layering” of constitutions are muddled and leave you asking “does this guy think people really have a core constitutional type or not !?”. When you start call the emotional state-of-the-day a “constitutional type” per se then that sort of waters down the concept of a constitutal type to nil doesn’t it?
I also was skeptical about the claimed “rarity” of seemingly not-too-uncommon constitutional types (e.g. a male pulsatilla). If fact the -constant- gender polarization is annoying and I think misguided. Am I the only one who thinks this author does not like women very much?
Ok having aired my complaints, thanks to Phillip Bailey on addressing a subject in need with an interesting style. There are many intersting comments (and fewer facts) in the book. This is not a great book but I don’t know of a better one on the subject.
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