Articles

Remarks on pyromania

R.C. Hoekstra

Eight patients with the symptom of pyromania were described in their overall symptomatology. Many points of difference with the fire-setter syndrome of Mach and Mack (1) were described. The symptom of pyromania was conceived as an unconscious sign...

Compulsion hysteria

E. Verbeek

Compulsion is the most important symptom not only of compulsion diseases but acts as a dynamic element in relatively exceptional form of hysteria, called in this article compulsionhysieria. Out of three patients observed by the author one is exten...

Epilepsy... and what next!

H. Smits

The epilepsies, as 'endemic' illness, require a combination of short- and longterm treatment, during the entire lifetime. People suffering from epilepsy form a collectivum with its own characteristics, which might make the group recognizable. Ever...

The use of lithium in manic depressive psychoses

J.H. Thiel

Survey of literature on the therapeutic and prophylactic value of lithium carbonate. The therapeutic value in the treatment of mania has been established beyond doubt; the therapeutic value in depression is doubtful and is inferior to the effect o...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking

R. van Dijck

In this article an attempt is made to intruduce briefly the central concepts of general systems theory and communication theory and to illustrate their application to psychiatric thinking. The review is mainly based on publications of authors such...

Relationship between a mental hospital and a psychiatric ward of a general hospital

K. Visser

In this paper we have stressed the point that psychiatry as basic science cannot be ignored any longer in the whole of medical sciences represented in a general hospital. It is now time therefore to draw practical conclusions from this by mapping ...

Some aspects of the mental hospital in the turbulance of this era

F.M. Meijers

Since the second half of this century the psychiatric hospitals (in the Netherlands) are populated in increasing numbers with individuals who, more or less and to a certain extent are the victims of the unstable times in which we live. It is quest...

Psychotherapy, gratification and the mental hospital

F.J.M Rouppe van der Voort

Some patients in mental hospitals show, during their stay an increasing dependency and need for security, in addition to a decrease of personal responsibility. This tendency is facilitated by social laws and institutions. From the psychoanalytical...

Psychiatric examination in a situation strange to the patient

R.E. Abraham

During the first contacts with a new patient, the psychiatrist may have the feeling that the story of his life, the picture of his person, the patiënt presents to him is somehow incomplete. Sometimes, especially with 'experienced' patients it turn...

Report on an investigation concerning some psychological aspect of conscientious objectors

M. Kabela

At the end of 1971, 176 conscripts, who had made an appeal to the Bill 'Conscientious Objections to Military Service', were subjected to a psychological examination, on voluntary basis. We did not select a representative group of conscientious obj...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking Part 1,B and C

R. van Dijck

Watzlawick's axioms of the pragmatics of human communication are presented: the ineviability to communicate in an interpersonal situation and the simultaneous occurrence of communication and metacommunication. Dyadic interactions are described as ...

One and one is three

H.T. Piron

In recent years psychoanalytic theory and practice suffered from a tendency to neglect some basic Freudian concepts. The influence of European phenomenologic psychopathology and American interpersonal psychiatry has been leading to new psychothera...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking (part II)

R. van Dijck

Theoretical concepts, derived from systems and communication theory as explained in part one, are applied in a description of therapeutic communication (part two). In this description Haley's views (Haley, 1963) on hypnosis, directive-, non-direct...

De discussie in Nederland rond het transseksualisme heropend

Who is made of reason...

R.H. van den Hoofdakker

In his book Who is made of wood ... (Which will be published in the near future in English under the title Not made of wood). Foudraine, a Dutch psychiatrist, describes his 'journey through the psychiatric world': how he was trained to consider pe...

The therapeutic community and to-morrow's Society

P. Bierenbroodspot

Therapeutic community can play an important role in the development of the organisation of community mental health in future. The therapeutic community is mostly described in terms stemming from very different frames of reference: social, therapeu...

The meaning of festivals

J.A. Groen

Festivals have always been of great importance in human life. The author tries to come to a better understanding of this phenomenon by using psychoanalytic concepts. As an example of festivals a description is given of Carnival in the South-Nether...

Experiences with disulfiram implants in the treatment of alcoholics; description of a disulfiram psychosis

Th.B. Kraft

The author reports his experiences in 21 alcoholics in whom disulfiram tablets were implanted into the M.rectus abdominis. The — as yet scanty — literature is briefly discussed, as well as the comparatively limited field of indication. The case of...

Case bistory of a post concentration camp syndrome, recognized too late

W.J. Kappelle

The case history of a patient with a post concentration camp syndrome is discussed. The syndrome was recognized too late and it was found necessary to replace the psycho-therapy by a social therapy.The possibility is considered that fantasies of g...

Working methods, basic philosophy and results of an experimental therapeutic program: the Communication Centre for marital partners at Lovenjoel, near Leuven

J. Verhulst, A. Vansteenwegen

The article gives a short description of the working methods, the basic philosophy and the results of an experimental therapeutic program for marital partners, established at the University of Leuven in 1972. This program is organised on a three-w...

Encountering and Gestalt

W.C.M. Smits

Encounter and Gestalt-therapy have a great deal to tell us about how humans grow, how we can avoid or prevent our own growth and how we can uncover and overcome obstacles that prevent this process of growing. There is much unclear about the use of...

Siblings of emotionally disturbed children

B.H. van Hof

Having an emotionally disturbed child in a family means a heavy burden, to which everyone reacts in a different way. This hardship can cause desintegrational consequences under which all members of the family suffer. In social treatment it is impo...

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