[The face of depression].
While describing mimic and pantomimic aspects in depressive patients, the author points out how these features can often be found clearly reproduced in the paintings of artists. Then paintings of a depressive and suicidal female patient are discussed and compared with paintings of a talented student-nurse from our institution expressing her experiences with depressive patients. Also some examples of literary depiction of experienced depression are discussed. Finally the question is posed whether suicidal individuals can be freed from their ideas and impulses by pictures expressing suicidal ideas.
Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
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D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D014956:Writing
Das Antlitz der Depression.