[Role of the body image in creativity--a group of objects as an attempt for contextualization].

The Psychiatric Institutes have supported the different forms of self-expression from the very beginning, sometimes realizing therapeutic goals as well. Under this point theatrical phenomenon was held too. Physicians often created such scenic actions themselves. The visual, pictorial expressions have begun to be shown parallel to the representation of such scenic world. That was the context to create a number of psychiatric art collections. By this kind of theatre based on esthetical judgment visual creations have been shown to the greater public promoting the representation of integral, intact and differing body image. The exotic, the bizarre, differing from the expected, the different was in the focus. It is always a question who is inside and who is outside, who can see and who can know the secret and who cannot. Starting from space - and from a psychic point of view - the perspective and the focus are also important attitudes. It is important from where we look at things, are we included in the studied area or are we watching it from outside? Are we the ones to study something or are we being watched? Only the stability of our identity enables us to play different roles. I find it important how the ability to accept one's own body limits, the formation of body image influences one's visual expression in the mirror of the surrounding society and how it appears in the creative process. Being traumatized may lead to dissociation, post-traumatic disorder or some other psychosomatic complaints. People who endure some trauma diverge from the real situation that makes them suffer if they feel that their state is hopeless, if they cannot see any way out. One possible way to come to grips with some trauma is to create, to frame, which can be either negative or positive. In the negative sense it leads to remembrance, trace-leaving, the process of grief, frustration, mutilation and sacrifice. On the other hand, in the positive sense one is able to build up something through all these. We can also look at this process from the male or female viewpoint. Through such approach and with such questions in mind, I analyze a group of graphic objects of the Psychiatric Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.