[Transcultural aspects of the border between compulsion and ritual]

Compulsionary and ritual mechanisms show a variety of manifestations specifically in transcultural aspects. Strong feelings to suffer in compulsionary diseases and identical behavior patterns more or less within "normal" personality reactions can be observed. Limitations of free possibilities to behave can be described within creation and freedom of thought in man. Also this can be found in stereotyped patterns within sociodynamic ritus. Learning-psychological data are of great influence in human behavior as well as depth-psychological and sociodynamic features. Compulsionary and transcultural manifestations were to be discussed.