Containment
Creativity
Promiscuity and paradoxical loyalty as a response to separation anxiety
Mental illness is always social illness
Attachment and detachment
Configuration
All of our lives are a continuity
Act and activation
Pleasure and pain as alternators
Personality and clinical assessment
Anxiety and personality
Personality and time
Personality as behaviour
Wilfulness and selflessness
Will and willingness
Personality as an emergence from family
The pivotal person
The sacrificial personality
The patient as personality
The patient as commodity
The human economy
The human ecology
Personality as outcome
Personality forgotten
Accumulation and discharge–recapitulation
Multiple choice
SECTION FIFTEEN: THE CLINICAL ARENA: SPACE AND TIME
The appointment
The space
Holding the space
Sacred space
Mimesis
What is herbal medicine good for?
Enthusiasm
The Ailment: What does the patient wish for? Where exactly is the problem?
Health: the elusive diagnosis
Complaints: a metaphor?
SECTION SIXTEEN: THE PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE
Empathy and the dressing–up box
Imagination
Improvisation
An actor prepares
Ambiguity
Style of herbal medicine in Britain
A broad church
SECTION SEVENTEEN: THE UNCONSCIOUS
Repression
Leaking
Eurocentric
Unknowing
Dreams and dreaming: the facets of life
Healing
Reflexive collectivism
Triangles of identity
Fixity and range
Liminality
Zeal, family size and escape from the shadows
SECTION EIGHTEEN: THE ENTRAINMENT OF POISE
Symbolic and pragmatic thinking
Evidence based medicine
He who pays the piper calls the tune
A definition of poise
Uniqueness and the biology of poise
Loss of capacitance leads to symptoms of subjective illness
Capacitors
Fatigue, listlessness and depression
Poise is modifiable
Is it really healthy to never get ill?
Persistence
A diagrammatic representation of poise
Accidents, distractions and dithering
Power and purpose
Quantifying poise
Fibonacci number series and spatial and temporal relationships
Metaphors of poise
The sailing boat
Being under the weather
Hill and stream
Opening and closing the fan
The poise economy
Memorialists and poise
The therapeutic enhancement of poise
SECTION NINETEEN: MINDEDNESS IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Humoralism
The pharmaceutical model
Why plants? how do they work?
How do plants exert an effect upon the human body?
Colloids and films
Essentialism
Terrain
Belief, facts and assertions
The four drives
Coherence
Theraps
Fake projection and authentic acquaintance
Replacement therapies
The medicinal act
The multi–modal hypothesis for the action of medicinal plants
Sensory priming
Stochastic resonance
Pulsatility
Poly–cyclicity
Similarity and sameness, differentiation and uniqueness