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The Use of Colour in the Paintings of Psychotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. P. S. Robertson
J. P. S. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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Students of the paintings produced by mental hospital patients believe that schizophrenics show peculiarities in their use of colour. Impressions in the matter have been summarized by Reitman (1950). Schizophrenics, especially the chronic, seem to favour colours avoided by others, particularly shades of mauvish-red. They put colours into relationships that others find displeasing. They employ colours more boldly than others. Sometimes, it would appear, they purposely depict objects in colours at variance with those possessed in real perception.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 98 , Issue 410 , January 1952 , pp. 174 - 184
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

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