Volume 213 - Issue 4 - October 2018
Johann Hauser's drawings are intense and powerful: their colours and contrasts are intense and bright, with powerful outlines and the immense certainty within the artist's pencil-stroke. Hauser use pencil and colour pencils. He reaches within this very original and direct artistic technique, a very high level of artistic expression. The drawer's strongly emotional approach to his work becomes visible in tiny holes, that rubbed through areas in the surface of the drawing paper. In general, Hauser's pictures are dedicated to the “beauty and tremendousness” of human life. On a more concrete level, one of the main themes is the female body and ist appearance. Hauser was born in 1926 and from 1943 lived in mental institutions. His early drawings can be dated back to the late fifties. As soon as Hauser's works reached public attention, the interest of the art world in his work and he as an artist grew. Today he is well known as one of the key artist in the world of “Art Brut”. His artworks are part of several renowned collections and since 1970, frequently shown in international exhibitions across borders of art history genres. In 1979 Hauser's first solo show took place. In 1981 he was one of the outstanding talented members of the artists’ community living in the House of Artists, nowadays part of the Art Brut Centre Gugging in Maria Gugging, Austria. In 1990 Hauser received, together with the group of Gugging Artists, the “Oskar-Kokoschka Prize”. Hauser was living and working at the House of Artists until he passed away in 1996. For further information please visit: www.gugging.com/www.gugging.org. Creditline: Johann Hauser, 1986, Naked woman with hat. Pencil and colour pencils, 73 × 102 cm © Privatstiftung – Künstler aus Gugging.
Thanks to Drew Walker for co-ordinating this series of images and for obtaining permission to use them.
We are always looking for interesting and visually appealing images for the cover of the Journal and would welcome suggestions or pictures, which should be sent to Dr Allan Beveridge, British Journal of Psychiatry, 21 Prescot Street London E1 8BB, UK or [email protected].
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The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the UK: reflecting on the mental health needs of victims and survivors
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Analysis
Making a difference: ethnic inequality and severe mental illness
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- 22 August 2018, pp. 574-578
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Early-life exposure to severe famine and subsequent risk of depressive symptoms in late adulthood: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
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Prolonged exposure therapy and supportive counselling for post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents: task-shifting randomised controlled trial
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- 11 July 2018, pp. 587-594
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Changes in the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England 1984/85 to 2015/16
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- 02 August 2018, pp. 595-599
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Association between a national primary care pay-for-performance scheme and suicide rates in England: spatial cohort study
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- 30 July 2018, pp. 600-608
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Risk factors for interpersonal violence: an umbrella review of meta-analyses
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- 30 July 2018, pp. 609-614
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Modelling out-of-area admissions
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Correspondence
Virtual reality compared with in vivo exposure in the treatment of social anxiety disorder
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Book Reviews
Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry By Lynne Jones. W&N.2017. £20 (hb). 368 pp. o16.59. ISBN 9781474605748
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They Called it Shell Shock: Combat Stress in the First World War By Stefanie Linden. Helion and Company Limited. 2016. £19.99 (hb). 272 pp. ISBN 9781911096351
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Can't You Hear Them? The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices By Simon McCarthy-Jones. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2017. £13.99 (pb). 376 pp. ISBN 9781785922565
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Walk A Mile: Tales of a Wandering Loon By Chris Young. Trigger Press Limited. 2017. £11.99 (pb). 321 pp. ISBN 9781911246534
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Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach By Allison G. Harvey and Daniel J. Buysse. Guilford Publications. 2017. £22.99 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 9781462531950
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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm By Sarah Chaney, Reaktion Books. 2017. £20 (hb). 315 pp. ISBN: 1780237502
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice By Richard A. Bermudes, Karl Lanocha, Philip G. Janicak, American Psychiatric Association Publishing. 2017. £48 (pb). 277 pp. ISBN 139781615371051
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
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From the Editor's Desk
Violence, trauma, testimonials and truth
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