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breast. She vaguely remembered diagrams of a uterus in the fam-

w . Doctors Find ‘ ’ . ily almanac — the large ovoid Keys to Mind dominating the background was

her own representation of the cross-section of the uterus.

IOLENT splotches of ‘an- “Her depression was part of her resentment of not being married

ry 'S on ganvas . . . gry color and having children and of frusa curiously-sénsuous female strated romance. The color symface hammered into copper bolism bore this out, the .red. : i og showing sex drive and the black . . a wierdly impressionistic and browns of depression” cat painted against the

strangely contrasting conventional background. These might be exhibits from an art, museum or bizarre samples of modern painting. But in reality greens and pastels in the backthey are examples, of a new field ong was the work of a patient of psychiatric “medicine”. & NeW opiaraing from’ a depression, a approach to exploring the shadowy symbolism of hope in the future. recesses of the mentally ill. ,. “4 child who consistently mold- _ Use of painting, "sculpture and o4.haa4s of horses or dogs, fever other forms of creative work t0'human forms showed resentment unlock the secrets the mentally ,¢ , family too rigid and unyieldill can’t or won't divulge gained; i, human relationships. Any new recognition this month when : the American Psychiatric Association exhibited a patient's products with accompanving psychiatric interpretations in Cincinnati. But the method has long been used here at Indianapolis’ Norways Foundation, Inc.., 1800 E. 10th St., a non-profit foundation which has pioneered in the field of mental health. Ld " n THE CASUAL observer walking through Norways’ sunny occupational therapy room might think the patients busy at looms, canvasses and molding clay were béing given “something to pass the time.” But each patient is.at work at a task prescribed by a psychiatrist and supervised by a trained occupational therapist, a project carefully chosen to provide an outlet which might give a clue to raging inner conflicts. The end product, together with the therapist's vital notes on the patient’s behavior in the making, often tells the psychiatrist what he could not learn in months of interviews. Often a patient's choice of materials or rebellion against others is a telling clue. n = = “PATIENTS who are depressed invariably choose blues, grays, drab colors.” a Norways psychiatrist said. “They will choose the # simplest pattern, everything with * a minimum of stimulation because , they don’t want the stimulation of ' pattern or color. “Oppositely, a patient who is pathologically elated, who feels . too good, will pick the brightest _. colors, the most complicated pat- : terns. He will go at his work 2 sloppily, haphazardly, where the i depressed patient works with painstaking accuracy.” The choice of textures in handcraft is another tipoff to :‘motional conflicts. Some patients won i. work with harsh textures, preferring silks and velvets. Conversely, a patient in doubt about his standing as a male and assailed with uncertainty about his virility will refuse to works with any material that might to his conception havs female connotations. A patient with such doubts wil refuse loom work, insisting on a proirct like hammering copper, something which to him seems masculine. In choosing a pattern! to work from, this type is more likely to select a sensuous female

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8 n u OTHERS are less complicated. A fingerpainting of. a tree budding in spring, with a somber fore ground and unnaturally bright

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sents Eats and Joie i conflicts within the patent. to reality. Or else he mans shows emotional immatur- from conventionality into ity, an unwillingness to “mix” or After being at great pains to bizarre.” adjust to adulthood. set up an orderly background in

Es An exotic female face lovingly Perfect symmetry, all orderliness Tere, the psychiatrist re g hi d into eopper was the Was abandoned, a'cat was given|!s Where notes made during progammered Into eoppe 8 the ress are important. They womld

: ./ zebra stripes t ; effort of 3 man {oe banish for him. Zebra SUripes i Biri 8 hr indicate whether the unreal abanself doubts as to his sexual de- , ps) don preceded or followed the pain-

trist at Norways said on viewing : the picture. . "In other words, this Staking portrayal of the conves

» u" u ONF of the most striking sam- individual let go when he got to ples from the APArexhibitzan im- the cat, or vice versa. He vented Hoon. 8 pressionistic cat against a con- his feelings of unreality on the! “THE HEALING value of work 2 —— is not limited to the mentally ill,” ; the psychiatrist pointed out, Safeguard Freedom Everywhere—Vogeler "We're all doling the same thing VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, May dents Organization which was de- every day, trying to release our 19 (UP) — Robert. A. Vogeler, |jjyered by his wife, Lucile, the ©Wn strivings, saustyms ion > American businessman released : ; ego in the work we do an g = reconty zy Hungarian Cony [Niernational Telephone and (oo we go it" he said. i nists after 17 months imprison- Telegraph Co. vice president said: “The woman baking a cake, the ment, warned America today .not “Our duties as businessmen man clipping a hedge—what they to'let down “enslaved peoples” of compel us not only to safeguard do and the way they do it express the world who are lgoking to us our freedom, but also and par- certain things about their perfor salvation. ticularly to defend the principle sonality. We have just made a In a message to the founders and fundamental of free enter- medical prescription out of the convention of the Young Presi- prise.” . maxim “Know Thyself.” RATER

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face or form, any symbol which to him would not betray a preoccupation with his fellow male In cases like this, what a pa-

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