Oskar Kokoschka and Auguste Forel
2005; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 36; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1161/01.str.0000177473.17396.7e
ISSN1524-4628
AutoresVeronika Huf, Desmond O’Neill,
Tópico(s)Mental Health and Psychiatry
ResumoIn the spring of 1910, Oskar Kokoschka painted a portrait of the eminent Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, temperance champion, and myrmecologist Auguste Forel. The painting is a remarkable psychological portrait but also appears to predict the strokes and right hemiparesis that affected Forel more than a year later. Although it is possible that Kokoschka shared a gift of psychic prediction with his mother and grandmother, a more likely explanation can be ascribed to a combination of the artist's acute perception and the presence of subclinical signs of stroke disease.
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