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<p>German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn explored the use of expressive art as therapy. The published works of his patients inspired the surrealists and other interwar modern artists, but proved a foil to Hitler's attacks on "degenerate" art and the state killing of the mentally ill.</p>
<p>German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn explored the use of expressive art as therapy. The published works of his patients inspired the surrealists and other interwar modern artists, but proved a foil to Hitler's attacks on "degenerate" art and the state killing of the mentally ill.</p>
The story is movingly told in “The Gallery of Miracles and Madness” | Books & arts
Thu 5 Aug 2021 02.30 EDT In 1922 Hans Prinzhorn, a Heidelberg psychiatrist, published a book that set the art world on fire. At first glance Artistry of the Mentally Ill didnât sound as if it was breaking new ground. Ever since the 19th century, medical men working in asylums â âmad doctorsâ by another name â had pored over the drawings, paintings and sculptures of their more nimble-fingered patients to see if they could discern some sign or signature of madness. Was it possible to spot schizophrenia just by looking at the way someone drew a horse or coloured in the ...
7 January 2021 Visual hallucinations in people who have lost their sight can stem from spontaneous activity in the brain’s visual centres, according to a study led by UCL and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. The study, published in Brain, investigated why some people who have lost their eyesight experience vivid hallucinations, a condition called Charles Bonnet syndrome. The researchers were studying slow, spontaneous fluctuations, which appear unconsciously in our brains when we rest. The research team was seeking to understand w...