The Meaning of Psychosis in Works of Eva Syřišťová
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angličtina
Original language name
The Meaning of Psychosis in Works of Eva Syřišťová
Original language description
The aim of the paper is to - from the viewpoint of psychiatric anthropology - present the work of Czech psychotherapist and philosopher Eva Syřišťová who was mostly active as a therapist in psychiatric hospital while also publishing some avant-garde works in the field of psychotherapy of psychosis and specifically schizophrenia. Syřišťová began working with schizophrenic patients in the 1950's and wrote her most notable works in the early 1970's. In the paper, I introduce the core principles of her approach to therapy of schizophrenia, namely accepting and understanding the content of what the patient/client perceives or feels, and understanding psychosis in the wider, social - or simply interpersonal - context as a reaction to certain events and relationship constellations in the life of the patient/client which Syřišťová generally describes as 'unbearable situations'. For Syřišťová, psychotic sensations are comparable to dreams and deserve the same attention. Syřišťová, however, was opposed to traditional psychoanalysis as she rejected the idea of hidden structure, be it sexual or mythical, behind the content of psychotic sensations (or dreams). While Syřišťová herself never questioned the very categories of mental illness, schizophrenia or psychosis and also wasn't opposed to usage of medication, her approach based on sincere dialogue with the individual while focusing on their suffering (which Syřišťová understood as the cause of the schizophrenia and not the schizophrenia itself) can be rightly seen as challenging not only in Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe of her time but can be inspirative even for contemporary psychotherapy.
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Classification
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D - Article in proceedings
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Muses, Mystics, Madness. The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness
ISBN
978-1-84888-432-8
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e-ISSN
neuvedeno
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
17-22
Publisher name
Inter-Disciplinary Press
Place of publication
Oxford, Spojené království
Event location
Mansfield College, Oxford
Event date
Sep 15, 2015
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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