Re: Homeopathic intake questionarie
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:47 pm
Dear Sanket,
I start differently every time. Standard routine type people start
with filling out forms. Anxious people get body work or they start
pouring out their story. As I said, the questionnaire is not a guide
for the interview. It is an effort to shorten the hemming and hawwing
over vaccinations, childhood diseases, and every little problem.
I like one approach where I tell them that I have a magic wand. I can
fix anything. I say ping and pretend I am hitting their head with the
wand. I ask them to list me everything that I could possibly fix. As
they list, sometimes I playfully say ping. I tell them that actually
I can't guarantee a fix, but its a game. If I have the list, I can
eyeball it and say, what about your knee? Playful people like the
game. A Kali probably would not invite such playfulness. After they
make the list, I eyeball it and tell them to tell me about the most
important things. Usually what they don't remember is not important.
The list helps to prevent getting lost on one problem.
I suppose for Sankaran's method, getting stuck on trivial problems is
not a problem. Often their chief complaint is not the center of the
case. If left on their own though, many patients would only discuss
what they had come to discuss. That is their chief complaint. How do
you get around that?
Anyway, by the next appointment, or when I give them their remedy they
are telling me new problems and symptoms. Until they have an
aggravation of a suppressed problem, they really don't usually
remember suppressions very well.
I am thinking that the Indian way of giving each patient only 15
minutes is maybe ok. At least for a few people in the West. It takes
time to get to know a person and to gain their trust. It would be
nice if we knew those people ahead of time and did not have to waste
so much time breaking the ice.
There are people who give only tissue salts or flower remedies in the
beginning. I wish I had more skill, but that makes sense for some of
these more closed people. What do you do for those types?
Another difficult concept is the importance of strange rare and
peculiar symptoms. Near the end I tell them about them. I wish I had
a better way of describing an SRP. But many cannot give me those
symptoms until they start experiencing a remedy. Then they begin to
get the hang of homeopathy.
Blessings,
Ellen
I start differently every time. Standard routine type people start
with filling out forms. Anxious people get body work or they start
pouring out their story. As I said, the questionnaire is not a guide
for the interview. It is an effort to shorten the hemming and hawwing
over vaccinations, childhood diseases, and every little problem.
I like one approach where I tell them that I have a magic wand. I can
fix anything. I say ping and pretend I am hitting their head with the
wand. I ask them to list me everything that I could possibly fix. As
they list, sometimes I playfully say ping. I tell them that actually
I can't guarantee a fix, but its a game. If I have the list, I can
eyeball it and say, what about your knee? Playful people like the
game. A Kali probably would not invite such playfulness. After they
make the list, I eyeball it and tell them to tell me about the most
important things. Usually what they don't remember is not important.
The list helps to prevent getting lost on one problem.
I suppose for Sankaran's method, getting stuck on trivial problems is
not a problem. Often their chief complaint is not the center of the
case. If left on their own though, many patients would only discuss
what they had come to discuss. That is their chief complaint. How do
you get around that?
Anyway, by the next appointment, or when I give them their remedy they
are telling me new problems and symptoms. Until they have an
aggravation of a suppressed problem, they really don't usually
remember suppressions very well.
I am thinking that the Indian way of giving each patient only 15
minutes is maybe ok. At least for a few people in the West. It takes
time to get to know a person and to gain their trust. It would be
nice if we knew those people ahead of time and did not have to waste
so much time breaking the ice.
There are people who give only tissue salts or flower remedies in the
beginning. I wish I had more skill, but that makes sense for some of
these more closed people. What do you do for those types?
Another difficult concept is the importance of strange rare and
peculiar symptoms. Near the end I tell them about them. I wish I had
a better way of describing an SRP. But many cannot give me those
symptoms until they start experiencing a remedy. Then they begin to
get the hang of homeopathy.
Blessings,
Ellen
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