Spontaneous images at critical moments of life : a contribution to the relationship between psyche and soma;

The April 9, 1980 issue of the Offizielles Organ der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Psychosomatische Medizin, publishing a symposium held at the Children's Hospital of Zurich.

A. Hicklin - Editorial. W.H. Hitzig - Introduction and welcome address. S.R. Bach - Why do we do this work; a short introduction to the reading and evaluation of spontaneous pictures. W.H. Hitzig - The first interview with the parents of a fatally ill child, and psychological follow-up. A. Faleide and L.K. Thulesius - The ill child in the family; a report on psychosocial stress factors and psychopathology in the families of leukemic children. K. Kiepenheuer - Spontaneous drawings of a leukemic child; an aid for a more comprehensive care of fatally ill children and their families. H. Desmond - Personal experience with a spontaneous drawing reflecting later development of an organic condition. G. Weber - Experiences with spontaneous drawings. P.H. Andersen - Religious and pastoral consequences of the work with severely ill children's drawings. F. Meerwein - Personality problems of leukemia patients. G. Weber - Science and truthfulness at the bedside. A.J. Ziegler - Heart-failure and aporetic dreams. S.R. Bach - Forecasting aspects of painted dreams and dreams disobeyed. S. Hyman - Spontaneous process in a cancer patient. C.F. Donovan - A doctor's dilemma; objective scientist vs. caring physician. S.R. Bach - On the archetypal motif of the bird; pictures of severely ill patients with parallels from works of art to wall paintings of early man. P. Seligman - Unifying principles that underlie man's functioning in both his psychic and his somatic aspect. S.R. Bach - Guidelines for reading and evaluating spontaneous pictures. Buchbesprechungen. Kongresse - Seminarien - Veranstaltungen 1980. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Psychosomatische Medizin

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