A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 20. (1981)

PISZTORA Ferenc: A pszichiátriai kórrajzokban rejlő folklorisztikai információk jelentősége a szellemi néprajz számára

238 PISZTORA FERENC Further on he points out the importance of auto- and heteroanamnesis as well as of decursus in the descriptions of illnesses, he stresses the fullness of the experts' opinions in forestic medicine that he appreciates as a first-rate source-material. The author deals with the question what descriptions of cases in the period fo the Dual Monarchy can be used mainly for investigations of the kind. At last he mentions advantages of approaching folkloristic phenomena from the view-point of psycho-pathology. In his opinion one of these advantages seems to be that folkloristic phenomena having only peripheric importance for the average inhabitants, become of extraordinary significance for the sick and in this way these phenomena can be investigated by the experts. Another advantage lies in the fact that as far as folkloristic topics are implied in idols and delusions, folkloristic information are to be got by the description of these illnesses

—during the last hundred years

—from everywhere i.e. from several places, several social classes, etc. You can get at this information from sources having been attained by no ethnographic investigations yet. Ferenc Pisztora