title: [Experiences with non-swimmers in the rehabilitation of adult clients (author's transl)].
abstract: The experiences with 595 adult non-swimmers receiving swimming instruction during the years 1974-1976 are discussed on the basis of selected and cited tape interviews. Theoretical reference systems are described against this background of empirical observations, e.g., Alfred Adler's interpretation of individual psychology - that one's style of living is influenced by early childhood experiences, human indifference or hostility. Recent works of brain physiologists are mentioned, which deal with the two forms of human consciousness: the verbalisation of linear, logic and abstract thoughts in the left hemisphere (in the case of right handed persons), and the specialisation of the right hemisphere in the perception of symbols, pictures and irrational feelings. The helpful effect of a non-directive, client-centered atomosphere is discussed. The behavioural changes in patients who learned to swim are compared with the hypothesis formulated by Hoppe - that psychosomatic diseases might be caused by a functional disconnection of the two hemispheres.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013550:Swimming
vernacular_title: Erfahrungen mit Nichtschwimmern in der Rehabilitation Erwachsener.