In this study delusion is regarded from the aspect of a phenomenology of imagination. Delusion as an experience of fictitious actualities is interpreted as the attempt of a psychotic person, to find a sense of existence in view of the threat by mental illness. After explaining the philosophical fundamentals, imagination is considered to be the dynamic origin of delusion and hallucinations. The...
In German neuropsychiatric literature there is an established tradition of viewing the disturbance of consciousness as a leading symptom of the acute, potentially reversible organic psychoses. Following the late H. H. Wieck acute organic psychoses which are characterized by a disturbance of wakefulness (syndromes of somnolence, sopor, coma), have to be distinguished from those with preserved...
The present study tries to find an answer to the question, whether the consumption of cannabis can cause flashbacks, and, if so, under what circumstances they occur. This is of interest for the treatment, prognosis and also from the legal viewpoint. The definition of a flashback is often unclear. Empirical investigations are often not sufficiently comparable, the supplementary data are very...
In this casuistic contribution a female patient is discussed for whom an adaequate psychopathological and diagnostic assessment is very difficult to obtain. With the help of Freud's psychoanalysis, Janzarik's Strukturdynamik and the research into altered states of consciousness by Dittrich different interpretations of the case are provided. Zusammenfassung Die Titelüberschrift stellt das Zitat...
Theories and evidence on the aetiology of the 3 distinct forms of nightmares (REM nightmares, NREM night terrors, posttraumatic nightmares) are exposed. Depth psychological theories try an aetiological integration of the nightmare into their respective theories of dream formation, whereas empirical work stresses the personality-typical traits of nightmare sufferers. Clinical casework reports...
From 237 patients examined for drug-induced psychoses, 50 cannabis psychoses were examined according to the criterion "main cause of addiction" and 107 were examined according to the criterion "consumption during the last three months before hospitalization". The cannabis psychoses were compared to the other drug-induced psychoses as well as to a control group consisting of 219 schizophrenic...
The paper presents a functional model of the brain; this model uses psychophysiological mechanisms to explain dream formation, without postulating specific dream processes; the same mechanisms serve to explain neurotic thinking (the basis of neurotic behaviour), and its psychotherapeutic correction. The description of the model includes a synopsis of selected publications from the fields of...
Proskynesis as an expression of submission, reverence and awe is deeply rooted in the religious and sociocultural history of man. It may be traced to the old phylogenetic submissive posture in animals, which is a pattern of behavior belonging to the group of survival instincts. Different forms of proskyneses and servility may emerge as an expression of psychotic behavior in man, reflecting a...