{"title":"[\"The madhouse\" by W. Kaulbach and the meaning of the picture interpreted by J.A. Schilling, 1863].","authors":"A Rothkopf","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article deals with the picture \"Das Narrenhaus\" (the Madhouse) by W. Kaulbach and its interpretation by the psychiatrist J.A. Schilling, which he gave in his book \"Psychiatrische Briefe\" (psychiatric letters) in 1863. This picture is often used as a contemporary document for the situation in the treatment of the mentally ill at the beginning of the last century. The article points out doubts in this procedure. The interpretation by Schilling cannot be considered a document for psychiatric records; on the contrary, it is influenced by contemporary romantic medicine and utilises the picture to exemplify the theoretical concept of culpable human offence as the cause for mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 1","pages":"51-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18038424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediumistic and psychopathological pictorial expression. An introductory comparative study.","authors":"E R Gruber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main objectives of this paper are: (i) To present a classification, based on the common features of structure, content and context, between mediumistic pictorial expression and psychopathological pictorial expression. (ii) This should show that both types of expression are very similar in many aspects, which have been described as the main patterns of psychopathological pictorial expression. (iii) Difficulties in dealing with the topics under examination are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 2","pages":"82-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18429483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Psychosis and creativity. Reflections on an autistic painter: Sylvain Fusco].","authors":"C E Simeoni, M C Mouren, J J Aulas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through the life and the creative activities of an autistic schizoid, the authors describe the relationship and the fundamental differences existing between the genuine artist and the psychotic subject, and consequently, the distinction between the concepts of art and creativeness.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 3","pages":"151-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18049233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal rejection and children's intensity. Implications for sex differences in affective development.","authors":"A Gruen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The interaction between intensity and activity of children and their mothers' rejective attitude is studied. It appears that hostile mothers fault their daughters for their intensity in a much more direct manner than their sons. It is suggested that this differential attitude is of consequence in the development of women and men in our society.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 4","pages":"223-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18273961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Anthropology of sexually deviant behavior. Polarizing structures].","authors":"E Holzbach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on observations of sexual pathology and the findings of psychoanalysis the polarizing character of sexual deviations is presented with its phenomenons. Two kinds of sexual behavior, called 'receptive' and 'processive', are especially characterized. In the light of actual anthropological views it is made evident that it is a question of a fundamental reference system that is not confined to an 'abnormal' or 'normal' sexual conduct, but which founds every human communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 3","pages":"133-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18448372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Premonition of death in painting.","authors":"U Halbreich, M Assael, D Driefus","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>3 cases of subconscious premonition of death are presented. In these cases premonition found access to surface by means of painting. One may explain that phenomenon on grounds of determination. But an attempt for explanation by definition of a psychological and/or physiological pre-setting is done. If that pre-setting is not realized by an accidental death, it may be fulfilled by suicide, somatic complaint as a manifestation of masked depression or by overt depression. Flashes of the subconscious pre-setting may reach consciousness in dreams or in paintings.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 2","pages":"74-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18429482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychic structure, psychic illness and psychotherapy in Plato and Freud.","authors":"K I Arvanitakis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Freud was familiar with the platonic writings and made multiple references of Plato's work claiming significant similarities with his own. This paper is an attempt to examine, in some detail, the existing similarities and differences between the two psychological systems. Parallels are striking, but these are, more, agreements in principle only. Fundamental divergences emerge, and these relate to different conceptions of the 'hidden knowledge' within the psyche, and of the nature of 'reality'. The two systems reflect different traditions and responded, historically, to different ideological climates.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 3","pages":"164-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18448374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The role of the psychiatrist under different cultural conditions. A comparison between Germany and Japan].","authors":"J Nüssner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychiatrist's role and its preconditions in Japan and Germany are described. Proceedings from different cultural, historical and psychological conditions, it is shown that, in a similar technological environment, substantially more traditional ideas and means of therapy have been preserved in Japan than in Germany. Similar biographical experiences of patient and doctor in Japan create an a priori basis of understanding, which facilitates the start of therapy. Cultural consistency and group cohesion and their influence on psychotherapy and mutual dependency of doctor and patient are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18381070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to an evaluation of art therapy.","authors":"G Gamma, R Bortino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An analysis of questionary data leads to an assessment of the actual role of art as a form of therapy. Art therapy seems mainly to be used as a form of occupational therapy and as a tool for clinical diagnosis. Only in a few cases is art therapy applied in a different way, taking into account the patient as a subject with his own biography and his own existential problems. Animation and other similar methods may represent an alternative approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 1","pages":"15-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18381071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theory and practice of image art psychotherapy.","authors":"Y Tokuda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Image Art Psychotherapy (IAPT) and its practical applications were presented through one case study. The synthetic house-tree-person (Syn. HTP), a part of the whole therapeutic process, is a unique and excellent method for obtaining information on psychoneurotic patients with problems in family dynamics. Free expression, spontaneous expression and thematic drawings are utilized simultaneously in IAPT. It is important to note again that there are image expressions applicable not only to one graphic representation but to a whole series involving the 'drawing-observing-examining-continuing to draw again' process, and somatic self-expression; that these too reflect the preconceptual emotion and total psychosomatic rhythm, and that there exists a process of approaching the true self over the ordinary defences. The importance of the experience process of images or psychosomatic rhythm lies in the fact that not only an understanding and perception of, and insight into the self can be obtained through creative and somatic rhythm expression, but also the flow of the unconceptualized raw emotion and psychosomatic rhythm is manifest as it is and is reorganized in the total psychosomatic sense.</p>","PeriodicalId":75735,"journal":{"name":"Confinia psychiatrica. Borderland of psychiatry. Grenzgebiete der Psychiatrie. Les Confins de la psychiatrie","volume":"23 4","pages":"193-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18067384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}