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- In 1910, Oskar Kokoschka painted a psychological portrait of Swiss psychiatrist Auguste Forel.
- The painting is notable for seemingly predicting Forel's future health issues, including strokes and right hemiparesis.
- Instead of a psychic gift, Kokoschka's foresight is likely attributed to his keen observational skills and Forel's subtle signs of impending health problems.
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In 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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