Thanks for taking the time to post these replies which I find really interesting!
cIB- I considered Staph too because of all the suppression of emotions. She definitely does this- she lives a lie- because she does not want to be the guilty one!
This also led me on to looking at the 'cowardly' remedies.
i find your reference to Dr Das re Nat Mur very helpful but that led me onto why can't they help it?
Anna- I see what you are saying about finding the definite physicals and understanding the case through the remedies that come from that. I know GM works in this way and i have been very impressed with his results- i am living proof of his work- wonderful!
But I can also see what Divina says we are taught this way in college ie hierarchy of symptoms. Find the remedy to address the mental state and the physicals take care of themselves. I've heard Sankaran talk about finding the central delusion- my tutor talked of finding the centre of the case.

So we obviously have homeopaths working in entirely different ways and all getting results.

Ilove the BB because so much can be learnt from discussion of topics like these - and the one sure thing about Homeopathy is that we never ever stop learning!