An Updated Review of Werner Janzarik’s Psychopathological Model of Endogenous (Idiopathic) Psychoses

Riccardo Dalle Luche; Simone Giovannini; Carlo Maggini

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An Updated Review of Werner Janzarik’s Psychopathological Model of Endogenous (Idiopathic) Psychoses

Riccardo Dalle Luche, Simone Giovannini, Carlo Maggini

Published in American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 11, Issue 3)

Received: 24 June 2023 Accepted: 14 July 2023 Published: 24 July 2023

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“Dynamische Grundkonstellationen in endogenen Psychosen” is Werner Janzarik’s most influential work. It is aimed at defining an unitary psychopathological model of endogenous psychoses independently from categorical nosology. His main contribution is the distinction between dynamic (the whole of emotions, impulses and intentions) and structure (the whole of psychic contents which remain stable throughout the course of life), whose intersection is well elicitable both in organic and in endogenous psychoses. Janzarik describes different types of dynamic alterations (dynamic constellations) in the different stages of the psychotic course: dynamic reduction in depressive phases, dynamic expansion in manic states, instability and depletion in the different clinical phases of long-term schizophrenic psychoses. Janzarik’s work is nowadays completely forgotten. In the paper the Authors resume his main clinical ideas on major mental illnesses, because they fit well with long term courses of psychoses as observable in mental health public services, in an era of serious crisis of categorical distinctions. Janzark supports a dynamic model of psychoses, characterized by different stages and switchovers between different psychotic categories over time. In addition, this model could be used in standardized pharmacological trials to define which treatments are really effective in the different “dynamic” alterations of both affective and schizophrenic psychotic courses.

Published in	American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 11, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajpn.20231103.11
Page(s)	55-63
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Keywords

Psychopathology, Endogenous Psychoses, Organic Psychoses, Unitary Psychosis, Structural-Dynamic Model, Werner Janzarik

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Riccardo Dalle Luche

Department of Psychiatry, Azienda Sanitaria Locale Toscana Centro, Pistoia, Italy
Simone Giovannini

Department of Psychiatry, Azienda Sanitaria Locale Toscana Nord Ovest, Lucca, Italy
Carlo Maggini

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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