The Use of Colour in the Paintings of Psychotics
- 1 January 1952
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 98 (410) , 174-184
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.98.410.174
Abstract
Students of the paintings produced by mental hospital patients believe that schizophrenics show peculiarities in their use of colour. Impressions in the matter have been summarized by Reitman (1950). Schizophrenics, especially the chronic, seem to favour colours avoided by others, particularly shades of mauvish-red. They put colours into relationships that others find displeasing. They employ colours more boldly than others. Sometimes, it would appear, they purposely depict objects in colours at variance with those possessed in real perception.Keywords
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