Just a dream- analytic psychology and homoeopathy

Dr Manisha Boricha
Dr Nidhi Vyas 

Abstract: Psychology is very helpful in Homoeopathy to understand the patient’s language. According to psychologists, there are different theories to understand the psychic problems. Here, Carl Jung’s analytical theory and its application in Homoeopathy includes- dream analysis, delusions, images, fear, etc. Homoeopathy reach to the unconscious mind which reflects in patients through the symptoms or in dreams. So, with the concept of individualization we understand the patient at ‘Psyche’ and ‘Soma’ level to find out the constitutional remedy.

Key Words- Homoeopathy, Jungian psychology, Dream analysis, Individualization, Stramonium, Crotalus Cascavella.

Introduction: – Psychology deals with many problem of our everyday life and many things which already we have experienced. All illness can be considered to be psychosomatic. That is, they inevitably involve the mind’s reaction(psyche) to a physical (soma) illness.¹ So, in all the so-called somatic disease as well the mental and emotional frame of the mind is always altered, with depth of psychology in the tradition of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, including analytical psychology, the archetypal psychology is a huge subject¹.

JUNG’S ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Carl Gustav Jung had a very different opinion about psychoanalysis and he took the direction of analytical psychology. Jung placed much less emphasis than Freud on sexual and aggressive impulses arising from past conflicts and much more emphasis on people’s future oriented goals, hopes, and plans.¹

From childhood Jung was extremely interested in dreams and fantasy. Some of Carl’s most powerful dreams involved religious images and symbols. These dreams were often laced with forbidden and sacrilegious overtones. In developing his theory, Jung drew on both his own dream and fantasy material and that of his patients; but he also drew on findings from such experimental techniques as the word-association test, in which people were read a standard array to 100 terms and instructed to respond to each term “as quickly as possible with the first word that occurs to you”. Stimulus terms that resulted in long delays, an inability to respond, or certain other key signs were thought by Jung to be parts of what he called complexes. In using his word-association test to diagnose complexes. He also accepted the existence of unconscious process, collective unconsciousness, a repository of ideas, feelings, and symbols shared by all humans and passed genetically from one to another. According to Jung, certain basic symbols arise in all cultures because they reflect innate tendencies originating from collective unconsciousness. These architypes that emerge in dreams and cultural practices, express basic human needs.

Jung believed that people’s emotion-generated behaviour could often be explained by identifying the key archetype that was influencing them. Dream is mystery. Freud called them “The repressed desires which float up indirectly during sleep in the form of dreams”

Jung also created personal unconscious which developed out of any of the individual’s conscious experiences that had been repressed. Psychologically healthy people were said to gradually come into contact with the unconscious parts of their personalities, integrating the unconscious or ‘shadow’ side with their ‘conscious ego’. In this way, all major components of the personality could eventually work in concert to form a fully realized, purposeful self. This process of harmonizing one’s conscious and unconscious components happened in a unique pattern of behaviour. Jung called this process individualization, he saw it as the means by which each of us becomes an individual distinction from other¹ and in Homoeopathy we also believe in individualization.

CASE 1: A 7 year old child came to the Swami Vivekananda Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital OPD with complain of Nocturnal enuresis on 26/10/2021.

CHIEF COMPLAINT: Nocturnal enuresis² since one year.

Her mother said that he passes profuse involuntary urine at night especially at 12 A.M and 4 A.M.

PHYSICAL GENERALS:

• Appetite- Good. Desire- Sweets and sour-panipuri.
• Bowels- Regular Once A Day
• Thirst- normal
• Thermal- ambithermal.

Past history: Not specific.

Family history: Not specific

Life history:
He was born at Bhavnagar. He started school at the age of 03 year old. His mother said that by nature he is very talkative and cheerful and friendly. He is also good at study. He have so many friends. His mother is housewife and father is doing job. Her mother said that we are living in joint family and he is very close to his cousin elder sister. Once they were watching horror movie and after that day he was very scared. He startles in sleep. When I ask him what happen he said that mummy it was a bad dream. He describes dream that I was at railway station and he saw a girl of that horror movie. The girl was lying on railway track and the train suddenly passes on her and she was cutted into two pieces and still she was moving and coming towards him. The saw frequent dream of that ghost girl. He can’t stay in dark room and alone because of that ghost girl fear. Even he is not going at railway station with anyone. So from that day he passes urine involuntary during sleep.

Dreams: – Ghost

Fear: – Dark, being alone, ghost.

Diagnosis: Nocturnal enuresis.

Analysis and evaluation:

Sr. no	Chapter	Symptom analysis and evaluation	Classification of symptom	Characteristic or common	Miasmatic analysis3
1.	Mind	Cheerful	Mental general	Common	Psora
2.	Mind	Fear-alone being-darkness; in the	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
3.	Mind	Fear-ghost of	Mental general	Common	Psora
4.	Mind	Loquacity	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
5.	Mind	Startling- sleep-during	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
6.	Dreams	Ghost	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
7.	Stomach	Thirsty	Physical general	Common	Psora
8.	Generals	Food and drinks-sour food, acids- desire	Physical general	Characteristic	Psora
9.	Generals	Food and drinks-sweets- desire	Physical general	Common	Psora
10.	Bladder	Urination-involuntary-night-fright after	Physical particular	Characteristic	Psora

 Repertorization:-

Prescription- Stramonium 1M single dose.⁵

Susceptibility– High.^{6, 7}

Selection of potency-1M.⁶

Basis of prescription and repetition of remedy– Stramonium was prescribed after Repertorization and we also took Materia medica reference to differentiate it with another remedy. Fear in dark, fear of ghost, frightful dreams and involuntary urination covers well by Stramonium⁵.  We have enough mental symptoms Susceptibility of patient is high.^{6, 7} According to Carl Jung psychoanalysis method the importance of the dreams is much valuable in this case.

Prognosis– on clinical examination there was no any gross pathology, so prognosis will be good.⁶

Follow up:-

Date	Complaints	Prescription
12/11/2021	Better. No startling during sleep. Passes 2 times in last few nights.	SL1 packet for today. SL TDS for 15 days.
30/11/2021	Sleep improved. Startling was gone. Passes1-2 time once at yesterday only.	SL TDS for 15 days.
17/012/2021	Better. Appetite increased. No any dreams was present. No startling.	SL TDS for 1 month.
20/01/2022	Better. No involuntary urination, no startling.	SL TDS for 1 month.

CONCLUSION: So, in these case the child develops involuntary urination. According to Jungian psychology we analyze case with dream analysis, collective unconscious and individualization.¹After watching that horror movie he unconsciously develops fear in dream. Fear is the psychic cause and it reflects soma as an involuntary urination. We connect mental, emotional, psychical aspect to reflect individualization of patient. On the base of Homoeopathic Individualization the remedy picture is Stramonium as a similimum⁵, which connects the different aspect of conscious as well as unconscious level.

After the treatment, patient improved well, there was no more startling and involuntary urination.

CASE 2: A 27 year old female came to the Swami Vivekananda Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital OPD with complain of Insomnia on 07/03/2022.

CHIEF COMPLAINT: Insomnia ² since one year.

She has complaint of sleepless night. Frequent sleep disturb due to horrible dreams.

PHYSICAL GENERALS:

• Appetite- Adequate
• Bowels- Unsatisfactory; constipation
• Thirst- Less
• Thermal- Hot
• Perspiration- Profuse

Past history: Not specific.

Family history: Not specific

Life history:

A 27 year’s old female, she was came from village near Bhavnagar city. She is married since year. She lives with her husband & in-laws. She is housewife. She said, she has sleepless night since year. She has dreamy night. She has fear of night, darkness, snake & animal. A year before her grandma expired & its affect her more. She has constant dreams of snake. In dream she feels snake is always near by her. Multiple snakes are around her, and come to near her, to bite her. She feels suffocated, increase perspiration & start palpation. She feels like chock up & tie up. After that she started weeping & feeling helpless. She feels as she is under control of someone. She has fear of ghost also. She feels someone is near around her & sudden woke up. She feels an unknown person who has black colored face and persuade her. In these dream again she feels suffocation, chock up & tie up. She cannot speak even. Her complaint increase by noise.

Dreams: – Ghost, Snake

Fear: – Night, Dark, Ghost, Snake

Diagnosis: Insomnia

Analysis and evaluation:

Sr. no	Chapter	Symptom analysis and evaluation	Classification of symptom	Characteristic or common	Miasmatic analysis3
1.	Mind	Delusion-influence; one is a under a powerful	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
2.	Dream	Attacked, of being	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
3.	Dreams	Beaten, being	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
4.	Dreams	Caught, being	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
5.	Dreams	Death-relatives; of	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
6.	Dreams	Ghost	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
7.	Dreams	Frightful	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
8.	Dreams	Killing	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
9.	Dreams	Pursued, being	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
10.	Dreams	Snake	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
11.	Dreams	Snake- biting him	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
12.	Dreams	Snake- surrounded by	Mental general	Characteristic	Psora
13.	Sleep	Awake during sleep; sensation as if	Physical general	Common	Psora
14.	Sleep	Sleeplessness	Physical general	Common	Psora
15.	Sleep	Unrefreshing	Physical general	Common	Psora

 Repertorization:

Prescription- Crotalus Cascavella 1M single dose.⁵

Susceptibility– High.^{6, 7}

Selection of potency-1M.⁶

Basis of prescription and repetition of remedy– Crotalus Cascavella was prescribed after Repertorization and we also took Materia Medica reference to differentiate it with another remedy. Fear in dark, fear of unknown, frightful dreams of ghost & snake and insomnia covers well by Crotalus cascavella⁵.  We have enough mental symptoms Susceptibility of patient is high.^{6, 7} According to Carl Jung psychoanalysis method the importance of the dreams is much valuable in this case.

Prognosis– there was no any gross pathology & seat of disease is functional, so prognosis will be good.⁶

Follow up:-

Date	Complaints	Prescription
07/03/2022	Better. No startling during sleep. But dreams still present in last few nights.	Crotalus Cascavella 1M- 1 packet for today. SL TDS for 15 days.
18/03/2022	Sleep improved. Startling was gone. No fearful dreams of snakes.	SL TDS for 15 days.
01/04/2022	Better. Appetite increased. No any dreams was present. No startling.	SL TDS for 1 month.
01/05/2022	Better. No sleepless night, No startling.	SL TDS for 1 month.

CONCLUSION: So, in these case the child develops involuntary urination. According to Jungian psychology we analyze case with dream analysis, collective unconscious and individualization.¹After watching that horror movie he unconsciously develops fear in dream. Fear is the psychic cause and it reflects soma as an involuntary urination. We connect mental, emotional, psychical aspect to reflect individualization of patient. On the base of Homoeopathic Individualization the remedy picture is Stramonium as a similimum⁵, which connects the different aspect of conscious as well as unconscious level.

After the treatment, patient improved well, there was no more startling and involuntary urination.

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Dr. Manisha Boricha B.H.M.S M.D (HOM) PhD (Scholar)
Associate Professor, Department Of Organon Of Medicine- Swami Vivekanand Homoeopathic Medical Collage And Hospital, Bhavnagar-Gujarat.
E-MAIL ID -drmanishaboricha@gmail.com
MO-9714225333

Dr. Nidhi Vyas B.H.M.S M.D (HOM)
Assistant Professor, Department Of Practice Of Medicine- Swami Vivekanand Homoeopathic Medical Collage And Hospital, Bhavnagar-Gujarat.
E-MAIL ID -nidhivyas1876@gmail.com
MO-9426313430