title: ["Relations and gestalt" (Wyss)--autism and physiognomic gestalt change in malignant schizophrenias].
abstract: Reality is what makes it possible to exist as a human being; every form of psychosis is characterized by a loss of reality. Human reality is the social reality of one's fellow-creatures. It is always rooted in the corporeal, the soma which is the manifestation within the individual of the unity of physis, bios, and mind. This complex manifestation (or gestalt in a broader sense) is unstable. It must be maintained by means of a constant supply of emotional stimuli, which is aesthetically mediated by communicative intercourse. Schizophrenia signifies the rupture of interpersonal relationships, a breakdown in the process of emotional refuelling. A marked diminution of clear contours in physiognomic manifestations also has somatically perceivable consequences in the case of the chronically ill. Not only does gestalt thus help form the basis of relationships; relationships, for their part, are instrumental in shaping gestalt.
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authors: Schneemann
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005863:Gestalt Theory; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011936:Reality Testing; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
vernacular_title: "Beziehung und Gestalt" (Wyss)--Autismus und physiognomischer Gestaltwandel bei malignen Schizophrenien.