[Psychoanalytic research on psychopathology and its significance for pedagogy]

As we were able to show that endogenous psychoses may also be understood and attended in psychotherapeutic treatment, the research results in the field of psychopathology are also relevant for the discussion of pedagogic problems. The developments of the psychoanalytic research work on psychoses are shown by the work of Paul Matussek. The following points are important for pedagogic discussion: (1) The importance of enrivonmental factors, especially those of parents, for the manifestation of the disease is proved. (2) Psychotherapy is an efficient process of learning. (3) Psychotherapy has a central aim of learning: the strenthening of the self as an assumption of working off unconscious conflicts. (4) The concept of creativity, which Matussek has gained from psychotherapeutical experience, might become especially important for pedagogic terms.