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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Bradley Manning's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

Army intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley E. Manning accused of releasing classified information to WikiLeaks.

He has been detained in solitary confinement since July 2010 and he waiting trial.

Before Manning joined the army he was an idealist who held the role of his country in the fight for freedom into great account.

After joining the army as an intelligence analyst, however, the cracks started to appear: his view of the military as a defender of the good against the evil changed.

He was quoted saying to Lamo, on a chat room: “I don’t believe in good guys versus bad guys anymore,” “Only a plethora of states acting in self-interest.”

On another occasion he asked Lamo: “If you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?”

To Assange he is quoted with saying that publishing a file of hundreds of thousands of classified reports on Iraq and Afghanistan would prove ‘one of the more significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st-century asymmetrical warfare.’ ”

He was also going through severe hardship and emotional turmoil in his private life, which were made worse when his long term relationship broke up.

According to court evidence, he asked for help from his superiors by writing a letter describing his gender identity crisis and attaching a photo of him dressed as woman – Brenna Manning, his new identity.

He even held a Facebook account and email address as Brenna. His pleas for help were ignored and so were psychotic episodes he suffered.

During his psychotic crisis he alternated between physical violence towards a female superior, and a desire to isolate himself from his reality – when he was found on the floor curled up into a ball.

His background:

He grew up in a small American town, Crescent, Oklahoma.

As a child he was small, and wore glasses. Considered by both his teachers and his peers as a bright intelligent child, who always had an opinion about issues discussed in class, he was a shy, but pleasant young man.

He played music, first trombone and later electronic synthesizer. He also enjoyed philosophic discussions about ethics and what was right or wrong with his small group of friends, although as he became an adolescent he became more and more isolated, spending most of his time in his room at the computor.

Life was difficult at home, when his parents’ marriage ended him and his mum had to move from to Wales, his mum's country. Before he went he had a confession to make: he told his two best friends that he was gay.

Being gay brought him into direct conflict with his dad who threw him out of in the streets making homeless. Yet being true to his values, Manning openly campaigned for Gay’s rights, even after enrolling in the army where the policy at the time was “don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Manning’s homeopathic profile is Silica:

Silica individuals are normally of small frame, they often have eye sight problems. They have a strong intellect, great aptitude for scientific and technological disciplines. They try to define their identity by fitting in the best they can within their group, without causing too much controversy since they are shy and dislike open confrontation or antagonism. They are however compelled to stick to their own ideals and convictions, and are considered by some to be of fixed ideas, and impossible to be persuaded otherwise once they have made their mind up.

The silica individual often feels divided: divided between loyalties when their duty goes against their ideals. Even at a physical level they present with many symptoms that imply this separation. What can be a healthy, inquisitive, and bright creative mind of the silica patient can also be easily affected by a difficult childhood – they need a strong and supportive family environment if they are to develop harmoniously.

In Manning’s case, his family breakdown may have seriously hampered his emotional development. When later on his life he sought that order and strong structure in the army, his need for support was once again eroded, this time by the conflict in between what he thought his mission should be and what it had become.

Going through both a crisis between his moral values as a US serviceman as well as in his private life through gender confusion, his psyche became fragmented and damaged and he suffered psychotic episodes with aggressive behavior towards his superiors when his new identity as a woman was not acknowledged or honored.

The patient who needs Silica as a homeopathic remedy often feels imbalance between their brain and their body, their duty and their ideals, a career in science or in art, a contradiction in between their life choices and that their loved ones would like them to choose.

Isolation and a feeling of being cut off from a part of themselves are the feelings that ensue. Which is exactly where Manning finds himself at the moment!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: George Clooney, the power of a king!

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses George Clooney's psychological profile according to homoeopathy principles and prescribes a homoeopathic remedy.

George Clooney needs no introduction!

Or does he? We are so used to seeing successful actors in the media that their faces, emotions and expressions become more familiar to us than our own.



We forget that what we are looking at is a character they’ve lend themselves to in order to tell us a story.


Unlike musicians who put themselves forward for all to see, and often even add on to this by writing their own lyrics, so that we get to know them really well, or artists who convey their thinking and feeling processes through their medium; actors create an illusion of total and unconditional surrender to their audience by lending their bodies, their emotions, their personal experiences to their character but without really compromising their privacy nor revealing who they are. The more an actor is typecast the more our illusion of knowing them really well is perpetuated.


George Clooney has a particularly multifaceted character. He is a scriptwriter, movie director, producer and actor.

He plays basketball regularly. Although he doesn’t appear particularly reclusive nor secretive he has made it clear that his private life is his own and not to be shared by the media.

We have known of his slightly troubled romantic life with a failed marriage and a succession of girlfriends.

We know of his past jobs before he went into acting: several low profile sale jobs and even work in a tobacco plantation cutting leaves.

We also know of some of his serious illnesses: while still at school he suffered from Bell’s palsy which caused him to be bullied by the other kids. He had a serious back and brain injury while filming Syriana - he was driven to contemplate suicide while in hospital, by the severe pain and the extent of the injury he suffered, at one point he was losing CFS fluid through his nose. He still suffers from occasional migraines as a result of the accident.

Perhaps most touching, we've known of his pets, the most famous of all: Max the enormous potbelly pig with whom he had a special bond, crediting the pet with saving his life when the pig woke him up just before an Earthquake.

He was twice nominated the “Sexiest Man Alive” by the People magazine

He has received two Golden Globe awards and an Academy Award, and many other nominations and awards for acting, but perhaps the most prestigious awards have been those pertaining to his political stance in defence of those who don‘t have a voice - He was presented with the Summit Peace Award, and he’s also been nominated a UN messenger of peace.


He has used his success and connections in the movie industry for social activism

He's been instrumental in raising awareness to the Darfur conflict, which has seen thousands and thousands of people being prosecuted and killed in one of the longer lasting conflicts in history.

George has also spoken against the Iraq war, alerting political leaders to the fact that we cannot fight a war with war, and that every war we fight we are creating a new generation of people seeking revenge.

George’s homoeopathic profile is Bismuth

This mineral is part of the gold series of the periodic table: the entire series carries an aura of power and kingship to some extent. Aurum being the recognised supreme king. Bismuth, which is stage 15 typifies the aftermath. One has been king, but has lost his kingdom, there is a choice of either trying to cling on to power in a vain attempt to resist the unavoidable or surrender gracefully.

Bismuth is also one of the remedies where suicide is most prevalent. All the gold series has a theme of depression relating to power- desire to attain it, abuse of power, or loss of power depending which stage in the periodic table they appear. All of these can be motivations for suicide.

In Bismuth, there is the realisation that power without strong social and moral values is hollow.


In Bismuth there is a strong dichotomy between idealism and cynicism: the person knows that if power is used to oppress others will not last, and true strength comes from empowering others and giving them a voice. They can sometimes feel powerless towards social injustice and even resort to suicide as a last resort to keep some control over their existence and the way they chose to live or die.

There is also humour expressed as irony in Bismuth, with subjects seeing themselves with enough detachment to be able to laugh.

Clooney has displayed this quirky side in many occasions both by making ironic comments about his political opponents, and also when lampooned in several programmes including South Park series - even saying he would have been offended if the program didn't make fun of him!


At a physical level, Bismuth is one of the remedies for facial paralysis and Bell’s palsy.

With Bismuth everything happens suddenly, life and death have a blurred boundary: Clooney has had a few near miss death experiences and sudden accidents

The one most publicised was the motorcycle accident in 2007. His stay in hospital attracted enormous publicity when dozens of hospital staff abused their position of trust by looking at his medical records.


Bismuth people are private, they don’t like to have their personal details exposed, and yet in a genuine display of sympathy to the hospital personnel, Clooney requested that no one should be punished over the incident: that is the whole mark of a true king - the power to be magnanimous!

By the Undercover Homeopath