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from the history does have merits for understanding Andrea Yates dept. Viktor Tausk (1879 - July 3, 1919) was a pioneer psychoanalyst and neurologist. A student and a colleague of Sigmund Freud and the earliest exponent of psychoanalytical concepts with regard to clinical psychosis and the personality of the artist. In 1919 after he had stepped out from Freud’s shadow, Tausk published a paper on the origin of a delusion common to a wide array of schizophrenic patients, Victor Tausk wrote credibly about paranoia and has relevance today. Namely that an alien device, malignant and remote, had influenced their thoughts and their behaviour. This device was referred to as the Influencing Machine and the paper was called On the Origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in Schizophrenia. It is the most well known of his publications and it has reached outside of his own field of research into others, such as literary theory for example. Selected bibliography Victor Tausk. Sexuality, War and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers (Philanthropy and Society) (1990) ISBN 0887383653
Books on Viktor Tausk
Paul Roazen. Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk ISBN 0814773958,
Kurt R. Eissler. Victor Tausk's Suicide (1983) ISBN 0823667359,
Kurt R. Eissler. Talent and genius: The fictitious case of Tausk contra Freud (1971)ISBN 0802100899,
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tausk"
also see zoe belloff video which recreates visually what Tausk wrote about. < A Film for Saturday Night | Applied Clinical Study of Destructive Cults >
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Rememberance of Things Past: The Origin of Influencing Machine
