Portraits of Homoeopathic Medicines, Vol. 1: Psychological Analyses of Selected Constitutional Types (Homeopathic Medicine Series) [Hardcover]

Catherine R. Coulter (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1997 | ISBN-10: 1576260895 | ISBN-13: 978-1576260890 | Edition: 1

Students and Practitioners of Homoeopathy will find this Portraits of Homoeopathic Medicines a valuable reference and resource.

These volumes furnish an in-depth understanding of the homoeopathic "personality types" the key to good prescribing. Nowhere will you find such richness and depth to the personalities.

Ms. Coulter's entertaining writing style brings to life, humor, and a modern approach to the study of homoeopathy.

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"This surperb book is quite the most useful, informative, and best expressed homoeopathic publication that I have read..." -- Ronald Livingston, MD, Homoeopathy Today

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• Hardcover: 422 pages
• Publisher: Quality Medical Pub; 1 edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576260895
• ISBN-13: 978-1576260890
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, enriching read, January 7, 2003

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This review is from: Portraits of Homoeopathic Medicines, Vol. 1: Psychological Analyses of Selected Constitutional Types (Homeopathic Medicine Series) (Hardcover)

This book (and its subsequent volumes) is extremely well-written, with illustrative examples from real-life cases, historical personages, and from literature. I bought it after it was highly recommended in one of Mr. Ullman's books.
For example, Ms. Coulter writes of Sepia: "Scarlett O'Hara...with her passion for dancing, her pride in independence, her sharp business mind, and her constant striving for self-expression, exhibits much of this face. Characteristic, too, are her admirable loyalty and responsibility toward her family - a long and heavy burden on her; her own type of honesty about herself; and her directness, combined with insensitivity toward others."
Whether or not you agree with the author's choice of comparisons, the analogies are never heavy-handed or forced. Rather, they illuminate the less-known facets of common remedies.
The other remedies listed in the volume are Phosphorus, Calcarea Carbonica, Lycopodium, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Arsenicum Album, Lachesis, and Natrum Muriaticum.
Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My "Go To" Series, December 24, 2010

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This review is from: Portraits of Homoeopathic Medicines, Vol. 1: Psychological Analyses of Selected Constitutional Types (Homeopathic Medicine Series) (Hardcover)

I love this excellent, well-written three volume series on some of the frequently prescribed homeopathic remedies. Catherine Coulter brings in whole new dimensions that I have found highly effective in practice, and that are not found in other sources.