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PubMed2001

Psychopathology in paintings: a meta-analysis of studies using paintings by psychiatric patients.

We classified 242 reliable scales from 12 art-based studies of psychiatric patients into 14 qualitative categories and also by three types of decision: form, objective or subjective content. We used meta-analytic techniques to combine and compare different results from studies testing the asssociation of art characteristics with psychopathology. Distinctions between controls and patients were more apparent than those between diagnoses. The largest effects distinguished patients and controls on categories of content, body details, energy and media control. Diagnostic groups were differentiated on energy and complexity. There were other less distinct differences for both types of comparison. There were serious criticisms of the quality of the literature, and a lack of information on validity and reliability, but this study suggests that art characteristics do relate to psychopathology.

Diagnosis, Differential↗
PubMed1997

"Painting a Leonardo with finger paint": medical practitioners communicating about death with aboriginal people.

This article describes 19 semi-structured interviews with medical practitioners working in the Northern Territory of Australia. The interviews explored the practitioners' perceptions of the differences between Aboriginal and Western beliefs about disease causation and death. The interviews further explored how these perceptions affected the practitioners' communication of mortality information and their response to the practical and legal tasks of reporting deaths to the coroner, requesting postmortems and certifying death. Two key themes emerged. The first was the variety of interpretations placed by medical practitioners on the concept of "respect", and the difficulty they had in showing that respect in light of competing Western legal and professional obligations. The second theme was that medical practitioners felt that Aboriginal people's notions of "blame" did not match their own; this led some medical practitioners to become despondent, whilst others negotiated this tension creatively. Use of the word "blame" almost solely to refer to the Aboriginal discourse served to exoticise the Aboriginal process and obscure its areas of similarity with the Western discourse of "responsibility".

Anthropology, Cultural↗