Printshorn (Prinzhorn) Hans

(8.6.1886, Germer, Westphalia - 16.6.1933, Munich) - German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Born in the family of the merchant, which were alien to the intellectual and artistic needs. Philosophical, . arts and health education in the universities of Tц?bingen (1904), . Leipzig (1904-1906), . Munich (1906-1908, Ph.D., . 1908), . Freiburg (1913-1914; medical exam, . 1917), . Heidelberg (Doctor of Medicine, . 1919),
. Practice medicine, not the art of singing, as he had expected after receipt of the philosophical and art education, his mental illness forced his first wife. Even during the First World War, met with Professor K. Vilmannsom. Then, in 1919. in 1921, he worked as an assistant at the Psychiatric Clinic at Heidelberg University, where he was director, received the quest to learn 'pathological art'. During this time, his collection - he was one of the first began to collect works of fine art activity mentally ill, . - Consisting of paintings, . Sculptures, . texts, etc., . has increased many times (currently a collection of 5000 works is in the University of Heidelberg),
. Processing of this material was reflected in his book ( 'Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. Ein Beitrag zur Psychologie und Psychopathologie der Gestaltung ', . B., . 1922), . Printshorn where creativity is regarded as a reflection of intense psychological conflicts of patients and their inherent states unrelated, . hopelessness, . personality disorders, . causeless anxiety, . excitation,
. Introducing these creative professionals and the public made easier to understand mental illness, especially schizophrenia, as a special form of human existence. In Heidelberg, he is familiar with L. Klages, a staunch advocate of the teachings of which he becomes. In 1921, Mr.. Printshorn stopped working in the clinic and started studying the depth psychology, as a freelance assistant in a psychiatric hospital 'Burgholzli' K.G. Jung in Zurich, and then engaged in psychotherapy practice in Dresden at the creator of autogenous Y.G. Schultz. He tried to organize a nursing home in Wiesbaden, but due to financial constraints, this effort did not succeed. He opened a private psychotherapy practice in Frankfurt. At this time many of his published works on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, psychology of personality and characterology (following the system Klages). Editor of 'Weltbild. Bucher des lebendigen Wissens' (from 1924), which attempted to trace the historical and cultural development on the basis biotsentrirovannoy philosophy. He was acquainted with A. Gide, D. Hesse, D. Hauptmann. Many travel, read guest lectures. Died, contracted typhoid fever during a trip to Rome. Literature.