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Are homoeopathic patients conspicuously neurotic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Timothy Amor  and
John Todd
Timothy Amor
Affiliation:
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Royal Air Force Wroughton, Swindon, Wiltshire
John Todd
Affiliation:
Royal Air Force Hospital, Wegberg, West Germany, BFPO 40
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There appears to be a growing public interest in “holistic” and alternative medicine which can be seen as a reaction to the scientific–medical role (Mechanic, 1978) of a conventional medicine which often fails when confronted by emotional or psychosomatic problems, and to fears, by the public, about the side-effects of therapeutic drugs.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , February 1989 , pp. 84 - 85
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