Articles

A Dutch Translation of the PSE 9th edition

ISSUE 1983/4

R.H. van den Hoofdakker, W.R.E.H. Mulder, C.J. Slooff

The results with a Dutch translation of the PSE (9th edition) were investigated as to reliability and validity aspects in one hundred newly admitted patients. Reliability results were reported previously (part 1). As to the content validity, the P...

A Dutch Translation of the PSE 9' h edition; Part I — Reliability

R.H. van den Hoofdakker, W.R.E.H. Mulder, C.J. Slooff

A Dutch translation of the PSE (9th edition) was tested for inter-rater reliability in one hundred newly admitted patients with a broad variety of symptoms. Twenty tour of them were re-interviewed in order to assess test-retest reliability. Seven ...

The psychiatrie patient: bound for justice?

P.J.H. Laurs

In this article the involuntary admission-procedures laid down in the bill on involuntary admissions to mental hospitals (ontwerp van Wet BOPZ) are analysed. Particularly the procedures on the judicial authorisation to admit a mentally disordered ...

The Mental Health Amendment Bill

G.V.C. Dekker

In 1960 the Mental Health Act 1959 was introduced in England and Wales. This Act was generally considered a product of modern legislation as it reflected the post-war results of psychiatric treatment (particularly with medication) and the changing...

Endorphines and schizophrenia: an overview

E. Brouwer, A. de Bruyn, M. van der Graaf, I. Kervel

Clinical studies on endorphines and schizophrenia are overviewed and evaluated. In the past eight years studies on endorphines have been a topic in the scientific literature. Several theories have been developed about the relation between endorphi...

Outpatient services in a city area

R. Giel, G.H.M.M. ten Horn

A Dutch psychiatric case register served to study the contribution to the delivery of mental health care to the area-population by a variety of outpatient services. There is obviously some overlap between services in the patterns of care and the t...

Released from a mental hospital

A.C. van den Hout

In this article attention is asked to the similarity between the admission in a psychiatric hospital and the release from it. The admission as the end of a pré-patient-phase resolves some problems and creates new-ones; at the release some problems...

'Interpretation or support'.

F.A.M. Kortmann

In a psychiatric outpatient clinic we see a variety of symptoms and/or personality disorders. The object-relations-theory offers a frame of reference to devide the patients into two groups. On the one side the patients who can depend on fairly mat...

DSM-III in childpsychiatry

F.C. Verhulst

The advantages and disadvantages of the use of DSM-III in childpsychiatry are considered. Where relevant DSM-III is compared with the ICD-9 as far as childhood and adolescent psychopathology is concerned. In classifying children and adolescents de...

A flourishing psychiatry out of danger

H.M. van Praag

A brief survey is given of a number of developments in psychiatry over the past 20 years. The most important one is considered to be the introduction of the methods of the empirical sciences in psychiatry. Psychiatry is developing from a theoretic...

Profile of a round-the-clock Psychiatrie Emergency Service

E.H. Ameling, J.A.C. Bleeker, R.V. Schwartz

From 1965 until 1979 about 14.000 patients were attended to by the psychiatrie emergency service at the Amsterdam University Hospital. Of each visit a short semi-structured record exists. From a random sample demographic, diagnostic and outcome da...

Sexual terminology and experience: about words and wishes, knowledge and values

A. van Waning

In this article the development of an image of body and sexuality in het child is described, with attention paid to the fantasy life of the child and the role of sexual enlightenment. Out of sexual terminology and sexual fantasies in grown-ups we ...

Aspects of illness-experience and psychotherapy in a non-western culture

J.W. Hummelen

The individual person in many non-western cultures experiences himself in connection with the world around him. Illness is experencied as a disturbance of the union with the social, natural and supernatural world. Psychotherapy has in view to affe...

Diagnosing borderline children

F.C. Verhulst

Recently some progress has been made in finding more reliable diagnostic criteria and methods for borderline conditions in adolescence and adulthood. However, no generally accepted diagnostic criteria are available for borderline conditions in chi...

Reality Orientation Training - an Approach of the psychogeriatric patient

M. Mas , L. Migerode

Reality Orientation Training (R.O.T.) is described as a feasible way to tackle negative effect of mental deterioration and chronic hospitalization. During an experimental period, 1/2 hour's R.O.T. sessions were given to small groups (max. 4 patien...

Some thoughts on anthropological psychiatry

H. den Boer

In this article an attempt is made to clarify the methods that form the basis of anthropological psychiatry. It appeared that especially the 'verstehende' psychology — worked out methodologically by Jaspers and divided into two concepts: 'statisch...

Phenomenological reflections on the phenomenon week

F. van Hest

The weekend is a most important unity of time in the industrialized communities of the Western hemisphere. Days are counted as days before of after the weekend. Emotional moods are determined by succeeding or failing weekends and the prospect of t...

Admissions to a psychiatric hospital and ambulatory crisis intervention (ACI)

F.W. Frets, J.A. Jenner

A comparison between the outcome of both approaches is made. From both literature and their own experience, the authors conclude that an admission to a psychiatric hospital is based on a sumtotal of elements. None of these on their own are decisiv...

Psychogenic Psychosis and Religion

J.D. van Scheyen

In psychogenic (reactive) psychosis vulnerability factors related to the premorbid character may be of more importance than the life-events preceding the psychosis. In 12 out of 28 patients with clinical psychogenic psychosis this vulnerability wa...

Narcissistic collusion and Partner-Relationship-Therapy on analytic lines

H.J.C. van Marle

In this article an attempt is made to order recent litterature about narcissistic disturbances in relationships and to draw consequences for practice. The theories of Kohut and Kernberg, and the collusion-concept of Willi are used as basic-princip...

A possible role for endorphins in the pathophysiology of psychogenic pain and other neurotic suffering

J.J. van Egmond

The aim of this article is to offer some speculation on whether further development of endorphin research shall provide a biological correlate for neurotic suffering. This question is answered for one neurotic disturbance specifically, namely psyc...

Verandert het perspectief van de psychotherapie?

ISSUE 1968/1

J.A. Weyel

Changes in the pshychotherapeutic field

Experience from groups on medical psychology with general practitioners taught that it is possible to introduce psychotherapeutic methods in general practice. It taught also that there is more psychother...

Neurologische aspecten van door elektroshock opgewekte insulten

ISSUE 1968/1

F. Hiddema

A number of clinical neurological phenomena, provoked by electroshock treatment with 15 psychiatric, righthanded patients were investigated. It is very probable that the observed phenomena are mainly the result of a direct influence on the functio...

Formulieren van een mantelplan voor klinischpsychiatrisch onderzoek

ISSUE 1968/1