"The homeopathic history-taking encourages an intimacy between client and practitioner, with the client sharing difficult times and allowing the practitioner to act as a witness and carer. This intimacy is a very important part of enabling healing.  Engagement has been shown, by those interested in evidence-based medicine, to be 45% of the process of healing ... although I don't think we needed evidence to know this." This quote is from Dr. Catherine Berry at the Australian Homeopathic Medicine Conference 2012. She presented a paper titled "The art of healing."