A Bitch or a Nun

Summary

This is a case of psychiatric troubles in a healthcare professional who, in spite of a personal psychoanalysis, and although managing to control her troubles in an apparently satisfactory way but at a very high cost, suffered strongly from the chronic intensity of her illness. It shows that the concept of illness is a relative one, whose manifestations and consequences depend partly but crucially on whatever resources that the person can employ to face the illness. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis may be of great help in the management of severe psychological troubles, but they cannot cure. A well selected homeopathic remedy, with luck sometimes, but especially with an optimal interface between patient and homeopath, can do good work in the realm of psychiatric troubles, not forgetting that a deep illness needs a great deal of time to be cured.

Key words

Morbid impulses - Compulsive thoughts - Naja tripudians