Articles

A.J.E. Visscher, D. Cohen

A 49-year-old male, known to have been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for 10 years, was treated twice with clozapine. Although the clozapine alleviated his psychosis, the patient developed peri-orbital oedema repeatedly. As a result he requ...

Case report

Vitamin D deficiency and psychiatric patients

J.B. Koster, B.A.G. Kühbauch

A poor diet and a lack of exposure to sunlight are common in patients with a psychiatric disorder. Both factors play a major role in the development of vitamin D deficiency. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency might be higher in psychiatric pat...

Abstract

Structurele hersenafwijkingen door pesten

J.H. Lamberts, H.J.G.M. van Megen

Abstract

Ontwikkeling en validatie van een korte cognitieve test: de Sweet 16

N. Haex, F.R.J. Verhey

Letter to the editor

Reaction on ‘“Histrionic personality disorder with regression and conversion”: a meningioma’

The free brain?

A study of job satisfaction among Dutch psychiatrists

G.F. Koerselman, J.H. Smit, W. van Tilburg

4 juli 2011

summary
background Psychiatrists in the Netherlands seem to be experiencing more and more work stress and consequently less job satisfaction. Little research has been done in this field and the situation needs to be further investigated.
aim To ob...

Review article

Perspectives on patient competence in psychiatry: cognitive functions, emotions and values

A.M. Ruissen, G. Meynen, G.A.M. Widdershoven

summary
background Informed consent, a central concept in the doctor-patient relationship, is only valid if it is given by a competent patient.
aim To review the literature on competence or decision-making capacity in psychiatry.
method We studied...

Commentary

To do justice to complexity; the concept ‘patient competence’

Psychiatric diagnosis by telephone?

L. Hoek, J.E. Hovens

summary
background The fact that more and more interviews are being conducted on the phone suggests that phone interviews are just as valid as face-to-face interviews.
aim To discuss the literature on the assessment of psychiatric patients with de...

Essay

Bastiaans’ war: a sobering picture

R. Kahn

summary
background Recently Bram Enning published his thesis about the Leiden professor J. Bastiaans. After the Second World War Bastiaans treated resistance fighters with a controversial method that involved the use of LSD.
aim To paint a picture...

Letter to the editor

Reaction on ‘Rating scales for assessing catatonia; which ones are the best?’

M. Morrens, D. Schrijvers, B. Sabbe

Corrections

verbetering

Editorial

Over een tijdschrift en een hoofdredacteur

G. Hellinga

The 'morals' of psychotherapy - an excursion to 1914

W. Vandereycken

The book Traite Pratique de Psychotherapie (1914) by an unknown French physician, Charles Burlureaux, is used as a witness of the situation of psychotherapy in France before World War I. It is a period in which leading psychiatrist wanted to break...

The psychiatrist and Kraepelin

W. van Tilburg

Summary: In our time Kraepelin's way of thinking has been actualised by the influential neo- Kraepelinian school in American psychiatry. Its hallmark is the emphasis put on the application of the concept 'disease entity' in psychiatry. Its most c...

Psychiatry and psychoanalysis

L. van Eck

Summary:
For the development of psychiatry both empirical research and the development of
the hermeneutic stance is of importance. In the view presented in this article,
psychoanalysis can offer an adequate frame of reference for hermeneutic activit...

Looking back and looking ahead in forensic psychiatry

F.H.L. Beyaert

Summary: In this paper some historical reasons are mentioned for the good mutual understanding in the Netherlands between the magistracy and the forensic experts. Some vignettes illustrate how the magistracy closely followed the development of th...

Long-term consequences of catastrophic traumatic experiences

R. Giel

Summary:
During three professional visits to Gaza and the West Bank; Leninakan, Armenia; and the area around Chernobyl, USSR, observations were made regarding posttraumatic reactions to the emergency-situations in the three areas. These situations ...

The `Laius Motif' in the work of Graham Greene

R.A. Pierloot

In the psychoanalytic tradition rivalry and even murderous impulses of a son towards his father have been considered as the source of father-son conflicts. But since a few years attention has been called to an aggressive component in the father to...

Psychoanalysis and the theatre

J.A. Groen

Summary:
Already in Freud's early publications there is a close relationship between psychoanalyses and theatre, especially from the point of view of psychoanalysis. In this Oedipus Rex, Hamlet and other plays by Shakespeare have played an import...

The leader's suffering