Summary
Entering professional life is a major hurdle for many young people. In Switzerland,
adolescents are expected to know by the age of fifteen whether they want to aim for
a university education or enter an apprenticeship for a practical profession. The
choice frequently overtaxes them, with many mistakenly choosing the wrong track. This
is reflected in a dropout rate of 28.8 % among apprentices. Such mistakes are associated
with a range of psychological problems. If they cannot be resolved, there is a great
danger that the patient completely drops out of normal working
life. This is where homeopathy can prove very helpful: homeopathic treatment often
can relieve a difficult situation within a much shorter time than counselling or psychotherapy,
enabling the patient to successfully make a fresh start in a more promising direction.
We use polarity analysis (PA) for remedy selection. This method came to prominence
with the Swiss homeopathic ADHD double-blind study, which successfully demonstrated
a statistically significant difference between highly diluted homeopathic remedies
and placebo. PA enables homeopaths to calculate a healing
probability for each possible remedy, based on Boenninghausenʼs grading of polar symptoms. In evaluation studies with a variety of acute and chronic
diseases, as well as with multimorbid patients, PA has led to clearly improved results
compared to a conventional homeopathic approach. In this paper we introduce the procedure
and illustrate it with three case studies of critical situations on starting a working
life.
Key words
Apprenticeship dropout - Polarity analysis -
Anacardium
- Ignatia - Lycopodium
