The Importance of the Symptom Pool

I think Edward Shorter's whole discussion around the symptom pool which I think is really quite brilliant yeah it's a great metaphor. A patient will unconscious who is experiencing distress will unconsciously kind of pull from whatever the symptom pool is in that time and place. That's what they will probably present with when they go to seek help or what they'll talk about when they go talk to a friend. It needs to be sort of in the culture so it's this really interesting kind of unconscious negotiation with the culture and with health care providers to kind of find the thing that will be responded to.