[Delusions of witches and suppression of femininity in the Occidental culture from the analytic viewpoint].

In this study, we look into the historical roots of the witch-hunt. For a period of 540 years, between 1241 and 1782, the burning of witches has been well documented. During these 540 years witch-hunts were simply the culmination of a passionate hostility against femininity as such within western culture.

[Clinical contribution to female identity crisis after loss of the uterus].

In the last decades a hysterectomy-boom is described both in Anglosaxon and in German medical literature. This can in no way be correlated with a increase of the pathologic-anatomic, respectively patho-physiologic processes of this organ. By means of two examples of analytic psychotherapy, it can be shown that the libidinous filling of the uterus in the psychic representation in the physic appearance of the woman is not congruent with the physiologic hierarchy of female sexual organs in medical science.

[Psychosomatic pain in the field of gynecology. Stages of the formation of psychosomatic reactions and symptoms with examples of cases (author's transl)].

1. Understanding disease in the context of a hermeneutic of the ill person's life history forces us to abandon the old understanding of causality which is represented by the model of body-soul polarity. The real onset of an illness has a biographic pre-history.