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W Leuschner

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PubMed1995

[Artistic dream reconstructions of the Wolf Man in the light of experimental findings].

The authors take the famous dream picture by the "wolf-man" as the starting-point for experimental research of their own and relate the one to the other. They see the significance of pictorial representations of dreams less in the supplementary information they convey about the "text" of dreams than in the fact that they give separate expression to motility-based "gesture-associated" memories and ideas. These need to be distinguished from "language-associated" memories as there are dissociated modes of encoding experience underlying verbal and pictorial representation. The splitting of these modes into different part-codes is an important component of repression. In addition, the pictorial representation of dreams enables the patient to re-associate part-codes and thus achieve a "deferred" reconstruction and complementation of significant experiences. In the authors view, pictorial representation is favorable to the discovery of repressed material; it is as yet however impossible to say exactly what relationship there is between verbalized and pictorial representation in the context of analysis.

Art Therapy↗
PubMed1989

[A telepathic phenomenon].

The phenomenon of telepathy in the treatment process is explained by reference to the subliminal theory of dreams of psychoanalysis and to certain aspects of experimental dream research. The author highlights certain derivable consequences regarding the interpretive process.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

[Psychiatric hospitals--an institutionalized defense system. I].

In the early beginnings of the constructional phase of a "sociopsychiatric satellite" of a rural psychiatric hospital where classical treatment parameters had been abandoned, signs were seen of trends towards a severely pathological group process which threatened to draw--induced by the patients--even the psychiatric attendants, nurses, helpers and physicians into the maelstrom of a mad interlock. At first, the sequence of events leading to this fateful climax remained largely below the threshold of consciousness. It became manifest by counter-transference reactions on the part of the psychiatric coworkers and generated creative powers which went beyond the processes described in literature in so far as they aimed at encompassing and sweeping along the institution as a whole. This prompts the author to suspect that the part played by the patients in the creation, shaping and routine reproduction of the institution known as "psychiatric hospital", has been underestimated up to now. After supplementary descriptions of the mutual involvement process in Part II, an attempt is made, in analogy to the concept of Mentzos, to describe the defence moves against such a pathological symbiosis as an essential part of psychiatric treatment institutions, especially of psychiatric hospitals or "asylums".

Countertransference↗
PubMed1985

[Psychiatric establishments--an institutional defense system--II].

As already described in Part I, the rigid structures of treatment in psychiatric hospitals were largely abandoned in the course of a sociopsychiatric experiment. This released initially both in the patients and in the psychiatric ward personnel (physicians and nurses) of the new hospital organization trends towards a common and highly pathological groups process aiming at reshaping or recreating the entire institution. This could be partly interpreted as a replay of a schizophrenic family conflict and induced subconsciously motivated tensions with the parent institution. In order to escape the ensuing tangle which became eventually intolerable for the medical personnel, structures were then introduced which could be interpreted as a compromise between protective bureaucratisation on the one hand and institutional psychotherapy on the other. This compromise resulted from a conflict within the medical personnel team. The trend towards protective bureaucracy experienced by many individuals of the medical personnel was so pronounced as a result of the counter reactions-transference that the structures of the new hospital organization would have largely fallen in line of those of the parent institution if the group of psychotherapists had not been as strong as it proved to be. This led us to believe that psychiatric hospitals in their capacity as institutions are almost exclusively in the service of defence mechanisms against psychotic entanglement or involvement tendencies and that they are thus more or less petrified products of institutionalised defence that, however, no longer obviously display the repulsed elements or the functions of repulsion and defence.

Countertransference↗
PubMed1976

[On amnesic episodes (author's transl)].

Amnesic episodes occur suddenly out of full health and pass off spontaneously after about three to six hours. Consciousness and customary speech and action are maintained during these periods, but powers of acute observation and memory for preceding weeks are lost. But amnesia persists only for the events during the amnesic episode. Temporary and circumscribed ischaemia in the limbic system is thought to be the case. Three case reports are presented to illustrate precipitating circumstances.

Acute Disease↗