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The Meaning of Psychosis in Works of Eva Syřišťová

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F16%3A10328284" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/16:10328284 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    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&apos;s and wrote her most notable works in the early 1970&apos;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 &apos;unbearable situations&apos;. 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&apos;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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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Article name in the collection

    Muses, Mystics, Madness. The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness

  • ISBN

    978-1-84888-432-8

  • ISSN

  • 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

  • UT code for WoS article