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bwv11 · #5 (**permalink**) 27th May 2004, 01:57 AM

i would suggest that all diseases, viewed from this angle, are of tripartite design: psychological, physiological, and environmental/transactional. indeed, simple reflection reveals that all three components must be present in all human "behavior," whether normal or pathological.

indeed, the three dimensions are really only one, if we want to push the point: all pyschology is clearly physiological - there is no such thing as an incorporeal mental state! and all physiology is psychological as well - there is nothing that does not reflect the balanced or imbalanced state of the organism in terms of internal functioning or adaptive fit. and although organisms are obviously separated from the surround, they are from the surround, and cannot live without it, circularly recreating themselves in transaction with the envrions. and ... without the organism, the environment itself would not be the same, the ecosystem would necessarily strike a new balance, organism/environment being elements of a single system, an "organic" whole.

that's taking things to extreme, but only because we are not used to conceptualizing across such a sweep. indeed, this pov reflects the fact that analysis is able to identify parts of objects - anatomy - but a holistic understanding of the interdepent structure and function of the whole object presents an insurmountable challenge to those who would operate on the part as though it were separable in any absolute sense from the whole. such doomed efforts at analysis are at the heart of the allopathic error, and at the center of its strength (the repair of traumatic injury). otoh, the totality, defined through detailed observation (not analysis) of the "case," reflects the holistic strength of homeopathy: the innumerable "parts" observed in the case taking are not analytical, but photographic, the whole taken together forming a kind of animation, seen in motion through the action of the potency.