Repertory of Mental Qualities (Q Rep) by Jeremy Sherr – Version 5
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Q Rep provides rubrics which are simple to choose but are all-inclusive. Improve results,
use smaller remedies with higher accuracy and make life easier.
What does Q stand for?
Q = Qualities
Why I call it the Repertory of Mental Qualities — four reasons:
- Quality means individual characteristics of a person.
- Degree is based on the quality of the symptom and the source rather than frequency — giving meaningful weighting to prominent features even if mentioned by a single prover.
- Strong emphasis on quality and accuracy throughout the work.
- The repertory is designed to improve the quality of your results.
Description of Q Rep
How often have you seen a case where it was clear that too much caring about others was a major issue?
Have you had difficulties finding the most appropriate rubric to represent this idea?
There are literally hundreds of rubrics that might be appropriate, and no one can know them all.
Conventional repertories often fragment mental themes into many small rubrics (money issues, self-esteem,
obsessive-compulsiveness, sensations of being trapped, snake-related symptoms, etc.). The Q-Rep addresses
these problems by compiling inclusive, thematic rubrics so you can more quickly and reliably find remedies.
Why it saves time
- All-inclusive rubrics for major mental themes (95%+ chance of containing the right remedy).
- Combines materia medica, provings, cases, and clinical experience with careful verification.
- Primary rubrics mark remedies where the theme is essential (for intense cases).
- New provings and contemporary remedies are added quickly thanks to fewer, broader rubrics.
Creating the Qualities
The Q-Rep began from a list of mental qualities frequently seen in practice (caring, money, self-esteem,
victim, perfectionist, control, guilt, trapped, home, music, spiders, snakes, etc.). Each quality was
compiled by experienced homeopaths, cross-checked at sources, and personally verified for accuracy.
Primary rubrics
Alongside each main rubric is a Primary rubric listing remedies for which the theme is a defining feature.
Use it only when the mental quality is a dominant, essential characteristic of the case.
Method & history
The work began in 2004. Instead of building rubrics from remedies, the process started from rubrics and searched
for remedies — compiled independently by two or more homeopaths, cross-checked, and supplemented with clinical experience.
KIS — Keep It Simple
Q-Rep follows the principle that a good rubric is “the rubric that has the right remedy in it.” Larger inclusive rubrics
reduce the risk of missing small or rare remedies and let you refine the final list remedy-by-remedy.
“The Mind is a mine field” — there is much room for mistakes when choosing mental rubrics.
Q-Rep helps avoid that by providing broad, reliable rubrics so you can confidently select from a complete final list.
The Q-Rep advantage
- Inclusive mental rubrics that reduce rubric-choice error.
- Combines Boenninghausen-style generalization with Boger/Phatak-style primary rubrics.
- Regularly updated with new provings and materia medica.
- Designed for practical results in complex modern cases.
What users are saying about Q Rep
“I use Q Rep in pretty much every analysis I make! … Q Rep makes sense of this muddle by joining together
fragmented rubrics with overlapping meanings so you can be more certain & therefore confident that your rubric
choice will contain the curative remedy for the case.”
“When our contemporary patients speak in a different language to 19th century repertory terminology, Sherr’s
thematic repertory of mental qualities is the tool to translate that into remedies.”
