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J Taucher

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PubMed2001

[Paintings and their progress by psychiatric inpatients within the concept of integrative art therapy].

Integrative painting therapy is a therapeutic concept for the treatment of psychiatric patients. It combines medical and therapeutic treatment strategies. The drawing and painting group takes the central part of this type of therapy. Its main focus is to capture psychodynamic processes with "inner pictures". Due to the creative process of painting the psychodynamic process becomes visible and can subsequently be worked on. According to specific rules the pictures reflect the psychopathology of different psychiatric disorders as well as their development throughout the therapeutic process. The pictures also serve as a starting point for group-, single and family therapy. The patients quickly gain access to their emotions and realize possible conflicts, which form the basis of their psychodynamics. Progress throughout therapy becomes visible and can be documented with the pictures. The structured course of the painting sessions provides additional information. The integration of various aspects helps expand our diagnostic frame.

Art Therapy↗
PubMed1999

[Integrative painting therapy. A therapeutic concept for psychiatric inpatients at the University clinic in Graz].

Integrative painting therapy is a therapeutic concept for the treatment of psychiatric patients. It combines medical and therapeutic treatment strategies. The painting group is the main component of this type of therapy. Its focus is to capture psychodynamic processes by means of "inner pictures". The creative process of painting causes these pictures to become visible; the pictures are then worked upon. Interpreted in accordance with specific rules, the pictures reflect the psychopathology of different psychiatric disorders as well as their development throughout the therapeutic process. The pictures also serve as a starting point for group, single or family therapy. The patients quickly gain access to their emotions and become aware of conflicts which form the basis of their psychodynamics. Their progress through therapy becomes apparent and can be documented by means of the pictures. The structured course of the painting sessions provides additional information. The integration of various aspects, e.g. the phenomenology of the pictures, statements of patients about their pictures, or the behaviour of the patients within the group, serve to increase our fund of diagnostic information. Major aspects of this therapeutic concept are the development of teamwork and the establishment of close contact within the team. This makes it possible to apply different concepts within the program, in accordance with the needs of each patient. The integration of different approaches of treatment promotes the development of a therapeutic environment that supports forces of self-healing and growth in specific stages of therapy.

Art Therapy↗
PubMed1997

Detection of isoprene in expired air from human subjects using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry.

A new analytical method using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTRMS) is described for the determination of trace constituents in human breath. PTRMS is sufficiently sensitive and specific that it does not require preconcentration or separation. At its present stage of development it is capable of detecting trace constituents present in air at the part-per-billion level. These capabilities are illustrated for isoprene, one of the most abundant endogenous hydrocarbons. Our results confirm recent observations of a diurnal level variation associated with sleep or wakefulness; a new finding is that young children have much lower levels of isoprene in breath than adults. To address the metabolic origin of human isoprene, we used PTRMS to analyze expired air for allylic C5 alcohols that have been proposed to be non-enzymatic precursors of isoprene. The lack of correlation between peak breath isoprene and these alcohols suggests that the hydrocarbon is formed by some other mechanism.

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PubMed1997

Endogenous production of methanol after the consumption of fruit.

After the consumption of fruit, the concentration of methanol in the human body increases by as much as an order of magnitude. This is due to the degradation of natural pectin (which is esterified with methyl alcohol) in the human colon. In vivo tests performed by means of proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry show that consumed pectin in either a pure form (10 to 15 g) or a natural form (in 1 kg of apples) induces a significant increase of methanol in the breath (and by inference in the blood) of humans. The amount generated from pectin (0.4 to 1.4 g) is approximately equivalent to the total daily endogenous production (measured to be 0.3 to 0.6 g/day) or that obtained from 0.3 liters of 80-proof brandy (calculated to be 0.5 g). This dietary pectin may contribute to the development of nonalcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

Acetone↗
PubMed1995

Methanol in human breath.

Using proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry for trace gas analysis of the human breath, the concentrations of methanol and ethanol have been measured for various test persons consuming alcoholic beverages and various amounts of fruits, respectively. The methanol concentrations increased from a natural (physiological) level of approximately 0.4 ppm up to approximately 2 ppm a few hours after eating about 1/2 kg of fruits, and about the same concentration was reached after drinking of 100 ml brandy containing 24% volume of ethanol and 0.19% volume of methanol.

Alcohol Drinking↗
PubMed1995

[Voice--mood: psycholinguistic therapy with psychiatric patients].

The voice is the result of a complex network between mental condition, mood and cognition of a person. The voice not only serves as a means of communication, it has also an effect on the person who is uttering the sounds. Language development phases and the emotional development phases form the theoretical base for therapeutic interventions. The way the therapist proceeds depends on the momentary mental state the patient is in. The structuring of the intervention levels depends on the degree of the disorder. In patients with pronounced inhibitions the therapist tries to activate the patient's feelings by means of passive breathing exercises and kinaesthetic awareness exercises which are accompanied by low music (awareness phase). Once a patient is successfully activated, she/he is asked to actively breathe and use her/his voice for reading and reciting purposes. The texts are accompanied by appropriate music (instrumental phase). This intervention is meant to lead the patient away from his/her egocentric state towards social interaction. After an amelioration and/or stabilisation of the psycho-pathological state, therapeutic activities are continued in the setting of group work. Patients with disorders primarily in the social area take part in this group work right from the start of therapy. The patients learn social strategies in that they get practice in creatively working with texts in the form of readings and theatre performances. They also learn how to throw a party together. In this phase they realise their abilities but also their limits (communicational phase). Due to the playful character of the work in the group the patients experience themselves independently; they leave the passive role of the patient and become active human beings. That way this form of therapy provides a bridge between the "biotope" of the stationary area and everyday life.

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