Abstract
This paper attempts to demonstrate how some insights from psychoanalysis can be useful
in homeopathic treatment. I discuss three concepts:
(1) The working alliance
: comparing medical alliance with a psychodynamic alliance.
(2) The dream-function
: serious somatic disorders can be the result of a blocked dream function, the restoration
of the capacity to dream may lead to the disappearance of these disorders, homeopathy
can help in this process.
(3) The transgenerational influence
: some traumatic, concealed events from the lives of ancestors can influence their
descendants.
I illustrate these concepts with the case of a 23-year-old woman with chronic fatigue
syndrome.
Keywords
working alliance - dream function - transgenerational influence - consultation - therapeutic
relationship - opium - psychoanalysis
