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Br Homeopath J 1998; 87(03): 148-153
DOI: 10.1054/homp.1999.0240
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The constitution: views from homoeopathy and psychiatry

SA Gaylord
a   School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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J Davidson
b   Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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21 June 2018 (online)

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Abstract

The notion that individuals differ in their physical and psychical makeup, and that these differences predispose them to various illnesses, is found throughout medical history in various healing traditions. In this paper, the authors address the use of the concept of constitution and constitutional type in homoeopathy, as well as in psychiatry, and describe an approach toward validating the existence of such types in the population.