Schizophrenia is taking me home

Gustav Ichheiser's uprooting and his commitment to psychiatry

Stephan Dietrich

pp. 187-205

in: Amrei Joerchel, Gerhard Benetka (eds), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This chapter analyzes Ichheiser's unpublished manuscript he wrote about his internment in a psychiatric unit from a psychotherapeutic perspective. His state of mind is related to both the clinical definition of schizophrenia and the condition of persons being persecuted and finally exiled. While we cannot go back to analyze Ichheiser's mind per se, his manuscript and his life circumstances give much insight into a troubled person that can provide the current reader with examples of how persons migrating and losing their homes may feel in general. Ichheiser's fate is analyzed from an existential psychotherapeutic approach.

Cited authors

Ichheiser Gustav