Transcultural perspective on psychiatric art and creativity and its consequences for psychiatry

A long tradition in psychiatry postulated an inborn human drive for art-creation leading to a specific style in the art of psychiatric patients, especially those suffering from a schizophrenia. Prinzhorn and Navratil are to be named in this context, but also the academic art agreed to this theoretical postulate, which was never actually proven, though systematic attempts to define a schizophreni...