Crisis on Starting a Working Life

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

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• Information on polarity analysis


You can find further information on our website http://www.heinerfrei.ch, where experienced homeopaths can also take a short course in PA.

• Textbook

• Frei H. Polarity Analysis in Homeopathy, A Precise Path to the Simillimum. Kandern: Narayana Publishers; 2013

• Software

• Boenninghausenʼs Therapeutic Pocketbook. English Software for Windows and Mac:. http://www.boenninghausen.de

• Seminars on polarity analysis in North America


If you are interested in a thorough education in polarity analysis, please contact Mrs. Lauren Hubele, Austin/Texas, e-mail: [e-mail]
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