Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 200-201. (Budapest, 2007)
TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - FORRAI, Judit: History of a Special Healing Method for Motor-disordered Children: Conductive Education - A mozgásszervi betegségben szenvedő gyermekek egyik sajátos gyógymódja, a konduktív nevelés története
2. The Ministry of Culture and Education, which is in charge of the supervision of the Institute, could not envisage the development of the network to cover the whole of the country in the 7 th Five-Year-Plan. Therefore, in co-operation with the Ministry of Health and the counties, certain improvements can be provided with the aid of local resources and social collaboration in hospitals and children's institutions. In such a way in Kiskunhalas a conductive therapy ward has been established, and in Miskolc, Tatabánya, Szombathely, Győr, Eger and Debrecen preparations have been made to set up such sections. 3. According to the director of the Pető András Institute, in five years time they would be able to train specialists for 200 in-patients and for the associated outpatients' section. Comrade Medve sees a reasonable possibility to set up 200-place accommodation and an associated outpatient ward. Treatments beyond European medical science Pető as a young man was already interested in Eastern religion and meditative thinking and everything which is closely related to it: health, body, self-knowledge and self-healing. „ Pető was a student of Rudolf Steiner 's work. He had studied it for long time. He knew his philosophy, his pedagogy and his curative education. Pető carried Judaism and Christianity within himself but in his manifestations he showed himself to be most closely related to Buddhism. He would suggest books to read on this topic" 74 Before the 1960s psychology, sociology, sexology and holistic science were not accepted as sciences. The official, conservative health authorities considered Pető's new and great erudition as "heretic" and did not let his curative and educational method blossom. He himself was believed to be a swindler and a charlatan. In medical society the first to accept Pető's scientific interpretation, justification and success were those who were involved with brain anatomy and physiology, such as Szentágothai and Donath. Only towards the 1990s did society and medical circles start turning towards holistic medicine. Alternative treatments have all kinds of names: alternative, natural medicine, holistic, heterodox, traditional, additional, irregular, naturopathy, etc. However we call it, they are all based upon faith in nature's healing force, and it is as much life-style reform and education as healing. We can consider Pető's method as the forerunner of the accepted most modern, nonmedical, positive mental hygiene by Gordon. The change of paradigm is also connected to his name. According to this, it puts health and illness on a different basis and approaches the problems with a bio-psycho-sociological and holistic attitude. We can see this in the change of naming as well: There is no stigmatisation. We say client instead of patient. We use dynamic process analysis instead of a causal approach. Instead of therapy and healing we have educational mutual learning. It's not a doctor or physiotherapist but a conductor who leads us towards self-reliance. Vekerdy, Tamás: O.e. 17-52.
