Repertory of Mental Qualities (Q-Rep) by Jeremy Sherr – Version 4

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Jeremy Sherr explains his philosophy behind Q-Rep: https://youtu.be/zs3aEpV8wW4

Q = Qualities
I call my repertory the Repertory of Mental Qualities, for four reasons:

  1. Quality means individual characteristics of a person.
  2. When choosing the degree of the remedy, I have emphasized the quality of information, as opposed to repertories based on Kent’s repertory, in which the degree is based on the frequency of the symptom. In my repertory I have focused on the quality of the symptom for each remedy and the quality of the source of information to decide on the degree I give it in Q-Rep. For example, while Lac-f appear in the first degree in “Fear of sharp things”, in the Q- Rep I give it four points as it is a prominent feature of the remedy, although from only one prover.
  3. I have put a strong emphasis on quality and accuracy throughout this work.
  4. This repertory should lead to an improvement in 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? I certainly have. Should I use “Cares, full of, others about”, “Sympathetic” or perhaps “Anxiety others, for”? There are literally hundreds of rubrics that might be appropriate, and there is no way anyone can know them all.
  • How often do we see a case where the patient presents a variety of issues related to money, resulting in a dilemma if to use “Fear of poverty”, “Avarice”, “Ambition, increased money to make” “Extravagance” etc. Again, there are hundreds of rubrics relating to money issues.
  • How many times have you tried to repertorise low self esteem, victim, obsessive compulsive disorder or sensitivity to opinion of others, but found that the rubrics are too small, inappropriate or just not there. Which rubric do you use when your patient feels trapped or feels divided? Our patients have major issues which just do not always represent well in the conventional repertories or are fragmented into a many smaller rubrics.
  • I remember many cases where the patient had many snake issues. I had to combine “Fear of snakes”, “Dreams of snakes”, “Delusion of snakes”, then added a materia medica word search for the word “snakes”, and still wished I could easily add all the snake remedies to my combined rubric. Occasionally I wanted plant remedies that relate to snakes names [e.g Cereus serpentinus]. It was repetitive work that took up a lot of my time.
  • Finally, are you getting to use the hundreds of new provings that come out every year, provings that do not yet appear in the Materia Medica or repertories? The Q-Rep has the very latest homoeopathic data.
  • I decided to compile a new repertory that would address all these issues, a repertory that would save time and be simple to use. A repertory that will increase your chances of finding the right remedy.

Creating the Qualities:
The idea of the Q-Rep is to create all-inclusive rubrics of major mental themes which have a very high [95% and up] chance of having the right remedy in them. This is based on the Boenninghausen concept of generalisation, and also on the concept of affinities. For instance, if a case has definite issues of “victim” and “home”, and the main physical affinity is bones, we can use these three qualities to repertorise [taking bones from the generals]. There is a very high probability that the right remedy would be in the end result. This system is simple to use, as we do not have to choose a precise small rubrics which may not have the right remedy included.

I started by creating a list of Mental Qualities that came up frequently in my day to day practice. As well as the themes of caring, money, self-esteem, victim, obsessive-compulsiveness and snakes, I chose Qualities such as perfectionist, control, divided, guilt, clairvoyance, failure, embarrassment, opinion of others, knives and points, home, water, music, spiders, trapped, insects, spiders, big ego etc.

The Q-Rep is much more than a simple compilation of rubrics and materia medica searches. Materia Medica searches are very useful, but can often lead to mistakes. For instance, if we search for the word “fall” for the the quality of “High and low”, we may get the rubric “Coma with falling of eyelids”, which is not appropriate. A search for the word Embarrassment will yield remedies mentioned as “NOT being embarrassed” or remedies listed under “Unlike Bar-c, embarrassment is not an issue in this remedy.” In a similar way, searches for the theme of “dark” will bring up remedies with “dark thoughts” or “dark urine”. A search for “perfectionist” might bring up many remedies from cases, but often this symptom was not cured, and therefore is not valid.

Other inaccuracies came from some modern materia medicas, which tend to be relaxed when adding remedies from families or collective themes. For instance, Cuprum-metallicum may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but while this may be true for some Cuprum salts, it is not necessarily true for all Cuprum salts.

To create a repertory that would be as accurate as possible, we have personally checked and re-checked every entry at its source, be it proving, materia medica, clinical additions or cases.
Primary rubrics
I often use Phatak’s repertory, which is based on Boger’s repertory. In these repertories only the remedies which have the rubric’s theme as an essential part of their makeup are included. So for instance, in Phatak’s repertory the rubric “white discharges” contains only 20 remedies, far fewer then in Kent or Synthesis, but you know that the remedies included have white discharges as a major theme, such as Kali-mur. This is true even if the remedy is small.

Therefore I decided to create a “Primary rubric” alongside each Main rubric. This represents remedies which have the theme as a major issue, even if they are minor remedies. We should use these Primary rubrics only in cases where the issue is very intense, pronounced and is an essential feature of the case.

By including the opposite approach of Boenninghausen, which contains all possible remedies in the generalized rubrics, side by side with the Boger-Phatak approach of rubrics with only the most prominent remedies, I have attempted to create a repertory that will span both trends and so present more possibilities of use.

The Primary rubric should be used only when the Mental Quality you want to repertorise is a major and essential characteristic of your patient’s morbid makeup.

The process of creating The Repertory Of Mental Qualities:
I started the work of creating the repertory in the summer of 2004. Preciseness, accuracy and maintaining quality were my main goals while creating the Qualities. While most repertories are created by going through remedies and adding their symptoms to rubrics, in this work I proceeded from the rubrics in search of remedies. The remedies for each rubric were compiled independently by two or more experienced homeopaths who compared their results at each step. During the investigation for each Quality we searched through many new and old Materia Medicas and repertories, new and old provings and cases. I then personally verified all the remedies. Finally we check to see if remedies from the same family were appropriate, and I added remedies from my own clinical experience. Because there are relatively few rubrics in the Q-Rep, we are able to add new provings very quickly.

KIS:
In these days homoeopathy abounds with many new remedies, complicated methodologies and huge repertories. These may all be very useful, but I believe that good homoeopathy often works on the KIS principle- Keep it simple. Let me give an example.

My definition of the right rubric is ‘The rubric that has the right remedy in it’. This might seem obvious, but none the less it is true. Holding this guideline in mind has helped my students when choosing rubrics. If all the rubrics we use in the case have the right remedy in them, then this remedy MUST come out in the final result. Bearing this in mind, it is easy to understand why larger and more inclusive rubrics are more likely to lead you to the right remedy.

There are too many uncertainties in choosing rubrics to take any unnecessary chances. Every slight mistake could lead to the loss of the remedy, especially in the case of smaller remedies. In consequence, I much prefer to have more remedies in the end result of my repertory work, but to be sure the right remedy is there. I can then go through the final repertory result, remedy by remedy, and choose the most appropriate one according to the totality of symptoms and my perception of the case.

The Q-Rep provides rubrics which are simple to choose but are all inclusive. If your patient definitely has the issue you have chosen it is almost certain that the Q-Rep rubric will have the right remedy in it. This makes for simple and effective homoeopathy

You may be familiar with my statement “The Mind is a mine field”. There is much room for mistakes in understanding the patient’s mental issues and even more room for mistake when choosing mental rubrics. There is no point using a fancy delusion or keynote that looks good but does not include the right remedy in it. Rather than selecting a small rubric and risking not having the remedy in it, it is much better to spend a bit more time looking at a longer list of remedies, comparing them carefully to your understanding of the case and particular symptoms, till you feel happy with your choice. Using Q-rep will allow you to take a big short cut to that list of remedies.

In my daily work I favour the Boenninghausen approach to repertorisation, using bigger generalized rubrics, where I am as certain as possible that the right remedy is included. After this I choose the best remedy according to the essential features of the case and the particular symptoms.

This method is particularly useful for both one sided cases-as I have seen time and again in my work in Africa – and for over complicated cases where there is TMI – Too much information.

What users are saying about Q-Rep:

“I use Q-Rep in pretty much every analysis I make! This is because it helps me to avoid making errors in the mine-field of the mind chapter. Unlike a well-described physical symptom, for which you can accurately locate a rubric to match your patient’s subjective experience, the mind section of the repertory proves more challenging. Mental/ emotional symptoms are frequently open to interpretation and if you choose the wrong rubric, you won’t find the right remedy! Q Rep makes sense of this muddle by joining together fragmented rubrics that have overlapping meanings so you can be more certain & therefore confident that your rubric choice will contain the curative remedy for the case.”

– Luke Norland RSHom, BMus.

 

“The conventional repertory is an amazingly useful tool – but not in all cases. Our contemporary patients talk in a different language that is often notoriously hard to translate into 19th century Victorian English. When this happens (or even before) reach for Sherr’s brilliant thematic repertory of mental qualities. It reaches inside the one dimensionality of mental rubrics with the benefit of a more contemporary and sophisticated understanding of the human psyche.”

– Alastair Gray, Co-principal at AHE New York
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