Abstract
In the University Skin Clinic and Policlinic of Basel/Switzerland, 35 women and 2 men with artefacts have been investigated by a dermatologist, a psychiatrist and a psychologist. 19 female patients were between the age of 10 and 25 years at the time of their first artefact. A second peak was found in the fifth decade, in which 8 women had produced their first artefact. Of 35 women, 21 had suffered one or more distinct traumata in childhood. 8 out of 35 women had one or more suicide attempts in their past history. 27 out of 35 women had either a suicide attempt in their history and/or were in psychiatric therapy and/or suffered from depressions at times and/or had psychiatric disorders in their family history. Of 21 women over the age of 30, 11 had been hysterectomized. The testpsychological investigation (Color Pyramid Test and Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Test) yielded that artefact patients are in a state of considerable depressive-aggressive tension without being able to handle their emotions and impulses in an adequate manner. Artefacts are the expression of intrapsychic tensions which cannot be expressed in any other way.
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