Author: Cocteau, Jean; Schmidt, Georg; Steck, Hans; & Bader, Alfred
Title: Insania Pingens
Description: Basle, CIBA Limited, (1961). orig.boards. 24x20cm, 114 pp, Includes 107 textual (some full page) coloured & black-&-white reproductions of paintings & drawings by 3 Swiss. Numerous textual illus.. Minor rubbing, a crease to flyleaf & half-title, VG. ¶ Contents: Jean Cocteau "Petits maitres de la folie"; Georg Schmidt "What has the art of psychotics to do with art as such?"; Hans Steck "Primitive mentality & magical throught in schizophrenics"; Alfred Bader The pictoral work of psychotics- a mirror of the human soul"; The Life & Work of Aloyse;The Life & work of Jules; The Life & Work of John; Notes; Bibliography.

Keywords: Schizophrenic artists, Outsider art, Mental Illness, Insanity, L'Art Brut, Schizophrenia, Naive art, Psychiatry, Psychotic artistry