Vol.XV - The Courage to Go Ahead
The Courage to Go Ahead: An Interview with Divya Chhabra
Simillimum - Winter 2002
Neil Tessler ND, DHANP
Her consuming gaze bespeaks a vital and searching intellect and there can be little doubt that despite her relative youth (mid-thirties), Bombay homeopath Divya Chhabra is a master and at the cutting edge of modern practice. While her husband, Rajan Sankaran, despite his popularity and immense contributions to the profession, has sometimes been a lightening rod for controversy and criticism, Divya has quietly emerged as one of the great teachers and leaders of homeopathy in the world today. Despite their intimate alliance, there are certain differences in their methodology that speak to her individualism and drive to follow her own experience, a reoccurring theme throughout our discussion. Most notably to those familiar with Rajan’s work, she does not generally use miasms in her analysis and has developed her own unique concepts in case-taking and analysis.
The following interview took place during Dr. Chhabra’s recent Vancouver seminar.
NT: How did you become interested in homeopathy.
Divya: Well, I have been brought up on homeopathy. I have probably taken allopathic medication once in my life. So, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor, so homeopathy seemed a natural conclusion of that, except that I was extremely interested in psychology and at that point the homeopathic course was not a graduate course. So my aim was actually to do medicine, do psychiatry and come back and do homeopathy. But it didn’t work, lucky me, so I just started homeopathy and that point it was a graduate course again.
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