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CA Homeopath CoverThe California Homeopath is the Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society.  The Journal was founded in 1882 by Dr. William Boericke and Dr. W.A. Dewey.  Published in San Francisco, the bimonthly journal existed under this name until 1892, when it was replaced by The Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy.

The California Homeopath was revived in 2006, and publication resumed with Volume 11 #1, co-edited by Richard Pitt CCH and Premananda Childs.  January 2009 marks the first online edition of The California Homeopath. 

Hard copies of all but the 2nd journal are still available.

We welcome your subscription inquiries to: subs@californiahomeopath.com

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Remembering Allen Neiswander, MD, DHt

Remembering Allen Neiswander, MD, DHt

by Richard Hiltner

Sun, Jan 31, 2010

I first met Allen in 1975 when I became a member of the California Homeopathic Medical Society [CHMS]. He and Fritz Schmidt [San Francisco] were the primary people in the CHMS at that time. We went to the Liga [LHMI, the International League of Homeopathic Physicians] Congress in Athens in 1976. Jackie Wilson, Bob Schore, Masie Panos, Sandra Chase, Roger Morrison, Bill Gray, Jennifer Jacobs, Dean Crothers, and others attended that Congress with George Vithoulkas being the “Celebrity of the Day."

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Also in this Issue

Experiential Learning

by Richard Pitt

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

An exploration of the dynamics and challenges of learning and teaching homeopathy.

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Active Learning

by Begabati Lennihan

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

Most homeopathy instruction is based on dumping a truckload of information on students. But homeopathy is something you DO. It's a set of skills that need to be practiced!

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Working With The Adult Learner

by Loretta Butehorn

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

An exploration of the ways in which people learn, with emphasis given to the Myers Briggs system.

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Creative Inquiry

by Alfonso Montuori

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

In this paper I discuss two educational models; the "Reproductive" and the "Narcissistic," and propose an alternative I call "Creative Inquiry." In Creative Inquiry the goal is to honor the passion, creativity, and transformative process that can be a central part of inquiry. Creative Inquiry views the academic as transformative, and the transformative as grounded in the academic.

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