Abnorme motorische Verhaltensweisen Schizophrenieerkrankter (Original) der geschlossenen Abteilung eines psychiatrischen Krankenhauses. Primitivschablonen und Stereotypien als Ausdruck mangelnder motorischer Entladungsmöglichkeiten. Starrer Ablauf automatisierter Grundbewegungen (Auf- und Ablaufen, Schaukeln, Grimassieren und Nesteln).

Based on the study of ten individual cases we are shown motory movement disturbances in long-term interned schizophrenics. Serious motory disintegration often brings with it grave communication disturbances. The movement studies shown are typical of patients who have been hospitalized for several years in so-called closed wards. The film was shot in 1968 in the department for chronically nervous patients at the Rheinischen Landeskrankhaus, Düsseldorf.