PREFACE THE ORGANISATION OF THE TEXT PART ONE: POISE SECTION ONE: HEALTH: WHAT CAN WE MEAN? - Definitions of health - Definition of health for the purposes of the current work - The scope and purpose of the model - The limitations of the model Model of health in this current work SECTION TWO: AXIOMS, THEOREMS AND IDEOLOGY - Split personalities - Personalities restored - Axioms - Human development - Mind, thoughts, conceptions - The sound of one hand clapping - There is no life without motion - There is no life without energy SECTION THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE ADAPTIVE RESPONSE - Five crucial interlocking ideas - 1/5: Mindedness - 2/5: The interconnected matrices - 3/5: Life as trajectory - Human drives as a function of time - 4/5: Capacitance - 5/5: The distribution of energy (maintenance of a ratio between capacitance and adaptation) - Recapitulation of Section 3 - The biological basis of the adaptive - Some examples of accumulation and discharge - The constant cycle of accumulation and discharge - The adaptive capacity - Summary of common chronic conditions - Footnote to Section 3: adaptive capacity is not a heritable trait SECTION FOUR: POISE AS AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HEALTH - Parallel worlds - Binaries: the garden with forking paths - Circadian binaries and transition zones - Symmetry - Gaia''s sister: the biosphere--separations and divisions - Things and events - Boundary conditions - Bounded states - Where do we draw the line and with what do we draw it? - Essentialism - Soil - Gaia''s children: fauns and fauna - Separations and divisions - Fixation - Oscillation - Fixation SECTION FIVE: THE TERRAIN: MIND AND MINDEDNESS - The necessity for a concept of terrain - Organisational structure - Structure and information - The trajectory - Physiology as music - Anatomy and physiology in time - Resonance - Lines and penetrance - Rationality - Reason - Bipolarity - Facts and occasions - Things and events - The structure of the terrain - Stabilising the trajectory - Causality and scale: death and life - Mindedness in the structure of poise - The hypothalamic mind - Mindedness - Consciousness - Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory - The adaptors and regulators of poise - The analogic mind - Consciousness - A memory is always an abstraction SECTION SIX: LIMITATIONS OF THEORY - Escape from limitations - Time and drive - Rheology - Patterns and drivers 1. The hypothalamic-pituitary driver 2. Cholinergic and aminergic referees/regulators 3. Hypothalamic-posterior pituitary Intensifiers 4. Organ responders and pacemakers - Potential applications of theory - Configuration of the terrain within the human body - Moravec''s paradox - The materialist defence SECTION SEVEN: HEALTH AND POISE - The hypothalamic mind - Mindedness - Consciousness - Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory - The adaptors and regulators of poise - The analogic mind - Consciousness - A memory is always an abstraction PART TWO: PEOPLE: WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CLINIC Preface to Part Two SECTION EIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE - The medical theoretician - Alternative medicine - Traditional medicine - What is the alternative to medicine? SECTION NINE: THE CONSULTATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT - The setting the speech the style the point the outcome - Whom do we treat? - The presentation - Classification of patients? - The Worried Well - Discomfort - Contrarians - Fugitives - Preaching to the converted - Consumer health-ists - Difficult patients - Self-defeating patients - Anxious patients - Common-sense pluralists - One-offs - Cost - The functions of a physician - Good medicine - The great divide - The cobbler''s children go to school barefoot - Continuity and belonging - Style - Loyalty and power - Your own style - Fashion and style - The practice is organic - Could herbs help my husband? SECTION TEN: STAGES IN THE CLINICAL PROCESS - The clinical process - Observation precedes the physical examination - The consultation as data collection - Records - Stages in the process - Judgements - Advice - Assessment of the terrain from the history and examination - The presentation of the patient - Time of day - The circadian moment - Our fractal histories SECTION ELEVEN: CLINICAL EXAMINATION - The face - Tongue, eye and pulse - The voice - Hair - Chilly mortals - Containment - Bodily cavities in the axial skeleton - The musculoskeletal system - Zoning - Human cartography SECTION TWELVE: SYSTEMIC REVIEW - Sleep - Fatigue - Confusion - Lungs and colon - Heart - Energy, Drive and fatiguability - Balance in the broadest sense - Digestive system - Teeth - Renal or sifting system - Skin, hair and circulation - Hands, feet and circulation - Menstrual history - Asymmetric symptoms - Seasonal - Snap observations APPENDIX TO SECTIONS TEN, ELEVEN AND TWELVE: RECOMMENDATIONS SHEETS - Sheet 1. General recommendations towards helpful dietary habits - Sheet 2. Special recommendations towards reducing the provocation of insulin (as well as blood lipids) and reducing abdominal fat - Sheet 3. Iron - Sheet 4.

Daily breathing exercise - Sheet 5. Seasonal fasting - Sheet 6. GOUT and high levels of uric acid in the blood SECTION THIRTEEN: PATTERNS OF LIFE - Staging, cycling and timing - The primes of life - Integrality: comparing and contrasting - A chart of ages - Think of a number - Biorhythms - Biological time - Photosensitivity - Claims of sensitivity - Meteoropathy and barometric sensitivity - Acoustic hypersensitivity - Biological time and infectious illness - Recovery time - Sleep - The parallel brains - Modules of sleep - The alternation between sleeping and feeding Ratios - In summary ECTION FOURTEEN: THE PATIENT AS PERSONALITY - Four element theory - Contemporary theories of personality - Personality and age - The patient as personality - Alternators - Alternators as a failure of circadian entrainment - Mental states - Mood swings - Mood stabilisation - Containment - Creativity - Promiscuity and paradoxical loyalty as a response to separation anxiety - Mental illness is always social illness - Attachment and detachment - Configuration - All of our lives are a continuity - Act and activation - Pleasure and pain as alternators - Personality and clinical assessment - Anxiety and personality - Personality and time - Personality as behaviour - Wilfulness and selflessness - Will and willingness - Personality as an emergence from family - The pivotal person - The sacrificial personality - The patient as personality - The patient as commodity - The human economy - The human ecology - Personality as outcome - Personality forgotten - Accumulation and discharge-recapitulation Multiple choice SECTION FIFTEEN: THE CLINICAL ARENA: SPACE AND TIME - The appointment - The space - Holding the space - Sacred space - Mimesis - What is herbal medicine good for? - Enthusiasm - The Ailment: What does the patient wish for? Where exactly is the problem?.