[Idiopathic psychosyndromes in the sight of Werner Janzarik]

In the 50 years of his scientific activity Werner Janzarik has also dealt with idiopathic psychosyndromes, the affective and schizophrenic psychoses. Our paper shows that the scientific work of Janzarik has essentially participated in the foundation of a scientific psychopathology of idiopathic psychosyndromes. In this connection Janzarik has used the whole spectrum of methods relevant for psychiatry in a very fruitful manner. It becomes evident that the step by step developed structural-dynamic concept of an anthropologically psychopathology represents today a substantial basis of a scientific psychiatry that presupposes understanding and knowledge of a comprehensive psychiatric experience related to patients. The transfer of his structural-dynamic approach to the idiopathic psychosyndromes turns out to be a new way of synopsis and integrated interpretation of the psychopathological and biological data relevant for psychiatry. His conclusive psychopathological concept certainly has, independently of its importance for psychiatric practice, a value on its own but must not dispense with psychiatric practice. The structural-dynamic design of Janzarik enables as scarcely an other concept manifold concretisations and transformations into empirically verifiable working hypotheses, also in the utilisation for the clinical psychiatry of idiopathic psychosyndromes and in reflecting their diagnostic and therapeutic aspects. The newly again recognisable tendency to a dividing up of our discipline into a somatic and a psychic position, into too much reductionistic and objectifying procedures of a biological psychiatry and one-sided psychonomic, anthropological, psychoanalytic and system-theoretical interpretations, proves the necessity and fruitfulness of the approach of Janzarik and its untimely character in a positive sense of great promise for the future, demonstrated just also in idiopathic psychosyndromes. The structural-dynamic way of consideration of idiopathic psychosyndromes, on the first sight, faced with the scientistic orientation of the contemporary psychiatry, appearing not useful, has meanwhile long ago on a large scale arrived at the research and practice of clinical psychiatry of affective and schizophrenic psychosyndromes.