Articles

Over enkele bijwerkingen van psychofarmaca bij langdurige en gecombineerde toediening

W.K. Gaulhofer

The use drug-combinations increases the risk of side-effects and makes the diagnoses of these side-effects more difficult. The writer refers to the relatively high incidente of systemic lupus erythematosus in a ;tiental hospital (three certain and...

De taak van de internist bij speurwerk in het psychiatrisch ziekenhuis

J.A.H. Gooszen

In spite of the coming of the chemist in the meetal hospital the internat medicine specialist has stilt a task to per form in the research in psychiatry:
in putting the problems, in testing the hypotheses by his own methods and by evoluating the d...

Depressie en glucosetolerantie

A. Ederveen

The carbohydrate-metabolism with depressive patients appears to be disturbed, one can of ten establish a low glucose-tolerante (high curves). In the mank phase the glucosetolerance-curves are normal. The disturbed carbohydrate- nietabolism should ...

Achtergronden en doelstelling van het interdisciplinair genootschap voor biologische psychiatrie

H.M. van Praag

A short survey is given of the bistory and the achievements of biological psychiatry the Interdisciplinary Society of Biological Psychiatry is expounded.
As regards the working-method of the new society the stress will be laid on the formation, an...

De plaats van de biologische psychiatrie temidden van de andere neuro-psychiatrische disciplines in Nederland

J. Bastiaans

The author discusses the evolution and the present state of neuropsychiatry in the Netherlands. Although psychiatry has reached a high standard research facilities have been relatively lacking for systematic psychobiological research. This was con...

Het testament van de alchimisten

B. Leijnse

The will of the alchemists

One examined in how far the two notions mind-matter are relevant to the biochemical contribution to biological psychiatry. The conclusion is negative. From the available data about the clinical picture phenylketonuri...

De geest in de fles

P. E. Boeke

In connection with the interdisciplinary approach in psychiatry a few problems are discussed, amongst others that of the differente in meaning of the 'lotion normal in the cooperating disciplines. At the same time there is a reference to the diffe...

Doeleinden van de ethologie

J.J. van Iersel

In the introduction some remarks were made about the difficulties in applying the scientific method to the study of behaviour in humans. Especially the great individual variability and objections against types of experimentation seem to prevent a ...

Een kliniek voor verslavingsziekten, als annex bij het psychiatrisch ziekenhuis Huize Padua te Boekel

J. van Baar

Lack of adequate treatment for chronic alcoholics in the Mental Hospital ,,Huize Padua" at Boekel, Netherlands, stimulated the building of a separate inpatient clinic for addicts, at some distance from the basis hospital. Admission in this clinic ...

Klinische ervaringen met 80 alkoholisten

F.H. Kroon

Description of the experiences with the first 80 male alcoholics in a new hospital department for addicts.
Some somatic, psychiatrie and sociological data are given. With the threefold purpose of the clinic as a basis, some problems regarding abst...

Ervaringen bij het psychologisch onderzoek van alkoholici in de verslavingskliniek 'Leefdael'

W.C.M. Smits

On the basis of psychological investigation of 70 alcoholic patients three observations can be made.
1 Experimental psychological results show no significant differentiation between the alcoholic patient and the normal subject.
2 This raises the q...

Electro encefalografische bevindingen bij chronisch alkoholisme

C.L. Janson

77 E.E.G.'s from chronic alcoholics showed in about 50% a low voltage and a surplus of tast activity, which is according to the litterature on this subject a rather characteristic picture of the E.E.G. in ases of chronic alcoholism, apart from the...

Enige beschouwingen over de gedwongen opname van alkoholisten

L.J. van Hiele

The treatment of a severe alcoholic with a committed hospitalisation is described. The author makes a plea for an early enforced treatment, because the results turn out to be favourable.

The relationship between demand and delivery of mental health care: high risk group in the population

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

Four cohorts of patients entering a psychiatric case-register for the first time from 1974 to 1977 were each followed for a period of one year. Patterns of care were studied and related to characteristics of patients and services. Consequences for...

Alcoholism from a systems point of view

Th. Compernolle

Following a reductionistic, lineal and summative paradigm one isolates the alcohol abuser out of his context and hence one tends to hypothesize intrapsychic dynamics (e.g. oral and narcissistic) to explain his behaviour. From a systems point of vi...

Psychoanalytic oriented assessment preceding psychotherapy in the first line mental health: a personal vision and working method

J. Derksen

In this article the structure of the diagnostical phase in the therapeutic process is described. A pleading is made in favour of a diagnostic phase that precedes and is not absolutely tied to the presuppositions of certain modern psychotherapeutic...

Mentally retarded patients in psychiatric hospitals

M.J. Haveman

Ambiguity about the role of psychiatric hospitals for this group of patients is growing. To help the discussion some demographic and diagnostic features of this group are given, including mortality- and discharge-rates of a residentcohort 1970 ove...

On crisis theory, mourning and role-change: the transitional proces in the support group

B.P.R. Gersons

By scrutinizing the works of the founders of crisis theory (Lindemann, Caplan, Tyhurst) attention is given to emotional, cognitive and role aspects in a state of crisis. According to Tyhurst, and many recent authors, crisistheory is redefined as a...

The meaning of the outpatient services of psychiatric hospitals for the mental heath services

W.P. van den Hout

In this article is pointed out that for the mental heath services there ought to be more attention for the place and the importance of the outpatient services especially as for as the somatic pathology and the psychopathology in everyday morbidity...

Carbamazepine, maybe an alternative for lithium?

W.A. Nolen

Lithium is the drug of choice for the preventive treatment of manic-depressive illness, eventually in combination with neuroleptics andlor anti-depressants. However, about 30% of the patients show a bad or inadequate response, especially the rapid...

The characteristics of 'misfits'

P. Heydendael , M. Nuy

This paper is based upon an investigation into the characteristics of socially disabled people ('misfits'). It is empirically shown that the clients in various kinds of establishments have a remarkable degree of similarity as to behaviour, marital...

Vijfenzeventig jaar organische psychosen

ISSUE 1966/1

J.A. de Wilde

The meaning of the expression 'organic psychoses' and the term 'organic' in nowadays professional language of the psychiatrist is exaniined on the ground of a historical view of the development of the notions in the last 75 years. There are 5 diff...

Dementia Paralytica in de psychiatrische inrichting

ISSUE 1966/1

J. Venema

(1) The establishment of the increase of the luetic infections during the last years obliges continuously to take into account neuroluetic complications.
(2) As far as the admission of patients in 'Dennenoord' can be considered representative for ...

Van organiciteit tot intelligentieverval

ISSUE 1966/1