„Ted” nevű páciens vallásos tárgyú rajza dr. Jakab Irén 1975-ös empirikus kutatásának anyagából

Irene Jakab M. D. Ph.D. „During her remarkable carrier as a psychiatrist, Irene Jakab brought acclaim to the institutions with which she was connected, as a renowned psychiatrist, scholar and administrator. She was Professor Emerita of Psychiatry of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She designed and directed the John Merck Program for Mentally Retarded Emotionally Disturbed Children at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (University of Pittsburgh Medical School), and served as director of medical student education in child psychiatry. She has published eleven books and contributed over one hundred papers to scientific journals on a broad range of subjects in psychiatry, neurology and neuropsychology.” (Lucas in I. Jakab, The Collected Works on Psychopatology of Expression, 1994, Preface) On the drawings of „TED” The literature on young children’s drawings with free choice of subject both in normal and in pathological cases has yielded very few samples of religious subjects, as well as in publications on religious art. Altough there are some exceptional cases in the litterature of psychopatological art, for exemple „A 18 year old retarded black youth who worked as a janitor in Catholic School has developed an acute paranoid hallucinatory state of „being white and persecuted by black people”. He became mutistic and started to draw for the first time in his life. He made a large number of pictures representing portraits: Jesus, and known members of the clergy and the Pope, in his personal rendition of known paintings. After several months of treatment, when he started resocializing again, he changed both the rigid stylized expressionistic style, and the exclusively religious content of his productions by representing in a naturalistic style the people of his environment in the hospital. The strong influence of the visulal exposure to religious paintings and portraits of the clergy, in the Catholic school, where he worked, and the emoitional attachment to the nuns who cared for him, have determined the choice of subject in his suddenly emerging talent and spontaneous need to draw.” His case proved, that „The image dialect employed by the child is not independent of the language of his educational environment.” (Jakab, 1994, Section 39, p. 77-81, 86.)