The Dao of Five Agents Harriet Beinfield/Efrem Korngold

 
How we come into being (ontology) and how we become sick (pathology) arise from the same source. To penetrate the identity of our patients is to grasp how their soma and psyche are organized, and recognize their nature, also known as their type. First comes learning the clinical skill of how to identify a person’s nature and developmental patterns. By exploring how the recognition of a person’s constitutional pattern or type can inform therapeutic decisions and strategies, an appreciation of the clinical value of this model is seen. By watching a digital video of babies from a busy pediatric clinic, we will see for ourselves what is currently being researched as a tool for making prognostic and developmental evaluations of infants and toddlers.