Articles

A sketch of the current situation in music therapy

ISSUE 1977/6

J.A. Rijnberk, M.C. Jansen

A number of factors explaining the great variety of schools within music therapy is described. To illustrate these factors a brief description of a few schools is given. Professional image, vocational training and (inter)national cooperation are b...

An investigation into the reactions of psychiatric patients to musical intervals

ISSUE 1977/6

J.A. Rijnberk, H.J. Duivenvoorden

This paper presents the results of a descriptive investigation aimed at gaining insight into the way psychiatric patients react to musical intervals. Twenty psychiatric patients and a control group were asked to indicate the subjective reactions e...

Summaries

ISSUE 1977/6

H.J. Duivenvoorden, W.A. Arrindell, W. Lawant, J. Pols, R.J. van den Bosch, A. Verdonk, J.A. Rijnberk, M.C. Jansen

Experience with lithium in an out-patient setting

H.M. van Praag, H.J.A. de Cuiper, L.C.W. Dols, K. Bakker, W.R.E.H. Mulder

This paper describes the organization of a lithium out-patient clinic before discussing a follow-up study over a period of 29 months. The results of this follow-up study are indicative of the prophylactic effect of lithium in unipolar and bipolar ...

The meaning of labour and of work in sheltered eployment

C.J. Koene

In the article an attempt is made to differentiate conceptually labour (in Dutch 'Arbeid', in old-English 'earfod') and work. Explorations in etymology suggest a forced, hard labour, serving relationship to others as regard the word labour, a labo...

Impediments in the discussion about the training of psychiatrists in the Netherlands

J.B. Bakker

The discussion about the training of psychiatrists in the Netherlands could be hindered by two factors.
First, in the debate on the obligatory neurological term argumentations of principle run the risk of getting lost under the stress of practical...

Development between the Dutch therapeutic communities 1966-1976

6 december 2008

J. Lansen

Critical voices concerning the concept of the therapeutic community hardly bear upon the rich development of Dutch therapeutic communities during the past ten years.
The therapeutic community proper as distinct from the therapeutic community movem...

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J. Lansen, J.B. Bakker, C.J. Koene, H.J.A. de Cuiper, H.M. van Praag, K. Bakker, L.C.W. Dols, W.R.E.H. Mulder

Client-system approach and therapeutic community

L.G. Portier

The client-system-approach, as we use it in our psychiatric department of a general hospital, intends to be a combination of the more classical individualizing patient-centered and the somewhat newer system-centered approach, as developed by famil...

Psychiatrist at an 'atypical' psychiatric department of a general hospital

H. Siegelaar

With a clinical description of the admission-process and treatment program of a married couple, the author gives an impression of the functioning of an uncommon psychiatric department of a general hospital. The ward is horizontal organized. There ...

Horizontal: fashion model?

E. Werlemann

The author gives a working-definition of a horizontal organisation: an organisation that structurally promotes conditions for equality of power and controls in a function way the ever present tendencies to 'verticalisation'. In the presented model...

Samenvatting van de discussie

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H. Siegelaar, E. Werlemann, L.G. Portier

Psychiatrie evaluation of patients with undiagnosed somatic complaints

H.G.M. Rooymans

Aim of this study was to gain insight into the argumentation of the psychiatrist in accepting (or rejecting) a possible psychological origin of undiagnosed somatic complaints. The study was based on the psychiatric records of 223 somatic in-patien...

Eros and Culture

F. van Hest

The ancient Greek named the cosmic strength to promote the harmonious grow, unification, beauty and happiness, Eros. He was the child of Necessity and Inventiveness. He was operating on the contrary of death — Thanatos — and even won the victory, ...

The Asklepieion at Pergamon

H. Pomerantz

The Asclepieion at Pergamon was a famous 'therapeutic community' in the antiquity, directed on man in his totality: attention given to body culture, bathing, music, theatre and 'psychotherapy'.
This milieu became recognized by its 'erotic' charact...

Video assisted examination in psychiatry of medical students

H. Pomerantz, J. Stijlen

Ninety students who failed to pass a multiple choice test in psychiatry were given an oral re-test in the form of a video assisted examination. The oral examination consisted of a discussion of the contents of a taped interview with a patient from...

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J. Stijlen, H. Pomerantz, I. E. I. M. van Eynde, F. van Hest, H.G.M. Rooymans

The current and future training of psychiatrists (in the Netherlands)

D. Jacobs

The author — in a personal view — gives his opinion about the training of psychiatrists in the Netherlands. He states that there is some variety in the contents of the training in different centres. He also concludes that there is not a common agr...

The Psychology in evolving psychiatry

A. Vergote

Psychiatrists have contributed more than academic psychologists to psychological understanding. However, the irreducible specificity of psychic causality is often not recognized by physicians, who are neither systematically trained to understand n...

Developmental phases of a psychiatric treatment team

A.Y. Berkouwer

An integral part of the development of a therapeutic community is the careful consideration by staff members of the patients' responses to them. Such responses frequently reflect real discord within the group, that is to say that complaints and cr...

Concern for children of hospitalized mothers

N. Meyers

Separation from their parents can be a traumatic experience for young children. This will especially be so if this separation is caused by their mother staying in a mental hospital.
On inquiry of the staff of some mental hospitals, and mental-heal...

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N. Meyers, A.Y. Berkouwer, A. Vergote, D. Jacobs

'Consultation-liaison psychiatry'

ISSUE 1977/1