Like the Rorschach Inkblot test the PsychoEidolianAnalytic (P.E.A. ) process uses pareiodila in an attempt to gain insight into a person’s mental state.
The P.E.A. protocol was introduced by Rokeiczynski, a Polish abstract artist and latterly, psychoanalyst. Ryszard Rokeiczyski was born 5th February 04 in Łódź (pronunced Wodj). In 1930 he joined the Wilanów (pronunced Vi’lanuf ) school of abstract artists who were centered round the Wilanów Palace in Warszawa [ pronounced Va’shava]. The other prominent members of the Wilanów School with Rokeiczynski were Gradzecki and Bielawska. ( Oddly although Mme Bielawska had the given name Ewa she was universally know as Bee. ) During this time they developed a genre of abstract art, known as Abstrakcji Wilanowie (Wilanow abstraction). In order to illustrate this genre I have given some examples of this style below.
At the age of 47, Ryszard Rokeicyznski moved to Praha, where he stayed at ulice Povitavska 141. Whilst in Praha he trained as a psychoanalysist at the Psychiatrické Léčebné Instituce ( Psychiatric Therapeutic Institution }. On graduation he moved back to Poland and founded his own psychoanalytic practice in Poznan. It was during his stay in Poznan and with the collaboration of colleagues from the Uniwersytet Medyczny im.Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu that he developed PsychoEidolianAnalysis or P.E.A.
The main difference between the methods used by Rorschach and Rokeicynski in the use of the image. Whereas Rorschach used inkblots, which had no intrinsic meaning, Rokeicynski believed that the image carried the message and the interpretation by the subject was irrelevant; the important diagnostic tool was the brain of the analyst. It is rumoured that on occasions Rokeicyznski actually slept through the subject’s interpretation of the images due to intense boredom. He also made no notes of the sessions and always maintained that there was no sure method of ascertaining that treatment was complete; so treatment was only stopped when the subject could no longer pay his fees.
The images that Rokeicyznski used for his analysis were taken from his abstract paintings, which were completed ten years earlier in Wilanów. It is understood however that one of his images was actually painted by Bielawska during her ‘intense blue period’.
[ Translated and abstracted from the Encyclopedia Hanseatica ]