TOWARDS A BASIC LAW OF PSYCHIC AND SOMATIC INTERRELATIONSHIP

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Progress in science depends upon finding relatively simple basic approaches that can encompass in a living way the fundamental principles which are common to the confusing array of the diverse phenomena, specialities and particulars. For, as Linne aptly states, “Nature is always similar to itself, though to us, owing to our inevitable defects of observations, it often may appear to dissent from itself”.

DISCUSSION.

DR. ROGER SCHMIDT [San Francisco California]: Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank Dr. Whitmont for his most inspiring paper. Those are very deep matters but I am sure that Dr. Whitmont is on the right track.

In accordance with the new concept of science, you know that we all have grown into the laws, the psychological laws, of the Aristotelian system. We express ourselves with the elementalistic ideas of opposition, soul and body, time and space, and such things, but we have come to a dead end. To mention one of the most well-known men who have debated this way of thinking, Einstein has proven very practically indeed that there is no such thing as space and time.

There is spaced time, which is one and the same thing, and this is an entirely different, new concept. It is a dynamic, synthetic concept and we have to bring this concept along into medicine. Homoeopathy has always brought out, ever since Hahnemann, this unitarian concept of the totality of man. We need more studies along that line and I am sure this paper will open up some greater future for homoeopathy.

DR. A. H. GRIMMER [Chicago, Illinois]: I just want to add my thanks to the doctor for this wonderful paper. He brings out the correspondences throughout all nature of the things which we have been dealing with, especially the finer forces in nature and the concept of the totality of man and his symptoms and their relationship to diseases.

It is a beautiful paper. It is a paper that will really require study to discuss accurately.

Thank you Dr. Whitmont.

DR. WHITMONT (Closing): I would only say this, that we homoeopaths have been aware all the time of these truths. Yet the task ahead of us is to get this down to a specifically workable scientific hypothesis that is unassailable and can be applied to practical problems allowing for explanation, not in nebulous terms but for specific predictions, as for instance Goethe’s prediction of the intermaxillary bone and the postulation of the planets Uranus and Neptune, according to mathematical laws before their actual discovery.

Only this is science. Everything else is chaos and, as you know, we homoeopaths have phenomena to deal with which no one will believe because we cannot give any explanation of why they are that way. Maybe along with this, we can find the answers to our “whys”.

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Edward C. Whitmont
Edward Whitmont graduated from the Vienna University Medical School in 1936 and had early training in Adlerian psychology. He studied Rudulf Steiner's work with Karl Konig, later founder of the Camphill Movement. He researched naturopathy, nutrition, yoga and astrology. Whitmont studied Homeopathy with Elizabeth Wright Hubbard. His interest in Analytical Psychology led to his meeting with Carl G. Jung and training in Jungian therapy. He was in private practice of Analytical Psychology in New York and taught at the C. G. Jung Training Center, of which he is was a founding member and chairman. E. C. Whitmont died in September, 1998.
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