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(2018) Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht, Springer.
Schizophrenia is taking me home
Gustav Ichheiser's uprooting and his commitment to psychiatry
Stephan Dietrich
pp. 187-205
This chapter analyzes Ichheiser's unpublished manuscript he wrote about his internment in a psychiatric unit from a psychotherapeutic perspective. His state of mind is related to both the clinical definition of schizophrenia and the condition of persons being persecuted and finally exiled. While we cannot go back to analyze Ichheiser's mind per se, his manuscript and his life circumstances give much insight into a troubled person that can provide the current reader with examples of how persons migrating and losing their homes may feel in general. Ichheiser's fate is analyzed from an existential psychotherapeutic approach.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72508-6_11
Full citation:
Dietrich, S. (2018)., Schizophrenia is taking me home: Gustav Ichheiser's uprooting and his commitment to psychiatry, in A. Joerchel & G. Benetka (eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 187-205.
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