The Importance of Art in Psychiatry

Producers of this art spanned an enormous range of different people, across a massively wide range of al ability, wealth, al all kinds of social strata. Effectively, what joined them a was that they were all the patients, or inmates, if you like to use the language of the time, are within the german psychiatric institution. And initially, er in his co rations with the director of the heidelberg psychiatric clinic, there was an intention that it might be used as diagnostic material. But princehorn very quickly moved away from that. He didn't like the fact that people were being diagnosed on the basis of their art. So he really became fascinated by it as