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Erna’s first diagnosis is schizophrenia...
Upon arrival in Gütersloh, "schizophrenia" is surprisingly diagnosed, also due to the dawdling and the inexperienced
flapsy of the defensive attitude in the admission interview - but also the ominous 4-week stay of sister Frieda in the
sanatorium in 1939 is now given a new status in the family anamnesis by pedigree by the local Nazi psychiatrists - in
contrast, all external possible re-active or age and developmental trigger mechanisms for Nena's behavioural disorders
are simply ignored...
At that time, schizophrenia was understood to be a mentally conditioned hereditary disease that can develop slowly or
suddenly from within and without external causes.
According to today's understanding, schizophrenia is associated with an
• Loss of inner perception for what
• Reality or
• Dream or
• fantasy is and
• these different levels of time and realities flow into each other and intermingle.
The possibilities and channels to perceive oneself, to approach others and the environment - to be there for others or to
develop sympathies, to inspire oneself... -
... have suddenly and irretrievably fallen apart and fragmented in a schizophrenia as in many small snippets and shards
without a direct external cause...
And schizophrenia already at that time differs explicitly from all the temporary, sometimes peculiar states that are
"psycho-somatic", reflex-like without any action of their own, are physically triggered as protective-reactions when
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external events present themselves as threatening or incisive for the soul...