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Man is forever constructing his future. It is this essential phenomenon that the author studies, calling it anticipation. With schizophrenic patients, anticipation does not disappear, it alters, deviates and can no more continue its regulating and motioning functions. In "delusive" forms or stages (the so-called productive moments, with intense processing activity), the real world is overthrown, subverted, and anticipation which has lost its spatial and temporal references, is dissipated in incoherent constructions. In simple schizophrenia or hebephrenia, the anticipation in reality is felt to be dangerous, obliterated by anxiety: autism sets up a mode of protected anticipation: apparent emptiness, delimitation of a security area or imaginary construction of the paraphrenic type. Psychotherapy, as an indispensable complement to chemotherapy, should be guided according to these different types of anticipation.
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PMID:[Anticipation by schizophrenics (1)]. 360 24

The original papers by Kanner stressed the significance of psychogenic etiology rather than the possibility of an organic brain damage. In accord with recent literature the authors find in children suffering from this disturbance, who have been observed for several years, syndromes showing a certain degree of organic brain damage possibly of perinatal origin. EEG examination in all children shows more or less an obvious electric deviation with an indefinite maximum of slow activity in temporal areas. On the basis of observation of these children during their adolescence the authors press the work hypothesis that some adults with marked traits of autism diagnosed schizophrenia simplex represent only an adult variant of early infantile autism.
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PMID:[Autism of early childhood as a consequence organic damage of the brain at an early age]. 500 88

Autism is the symptom which has the most specific features of schizophrenia. However, the content of pathological experience of the patients has not yet been clarified as it was never told by themselves. In the present study, a case of simple schizophrenia with a major symptom of autism is reported. Schizophrenic autism was studied psychopathologically by drawing tests. The analysis of drawings was summarized by the following characteristics. 1. The objects were drawn so as to be small at the center. The composition was further characterized by the overwhelmingly predominant empty space of its circumference, which we termed "reversed zoom lens effect". This seemed to show that the objects were isolated and removed from the patient. 2. The entire image of the theme was not drawn. 3. Lack of vitality was observed in all the drawings. On the basis of the above characteristics of these drawings and the clinical findings, the following were suggested as the pathology of the patient's experience: 1. The "reversed zoom lens composition" seen in the drawings suggested that the psychological distance between objects and the patient might be expanded. 2. The patient was alienated from the objective world to which he had once been accustomed as the object lacked vitality and familiarity. 3. The pathology of schizophrenic autism observed in the patient could be expressed as "alienation from objective experience." 4. It was considered that although akin to depersonalization, "alienation from objective experience" was the pathology characteristic of schizophrenia.
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PMID:[Psychopathological study on schizophrenic autism through the paintings of a case of simple schizophrenia]. 974 54