Articles

Research in biological determinants of schizofrenic psychoses

ISSUE 1980/10

H.M. van Praag, W.M.A. Verhoeven

The discovery of the endorphins has opened up a new dimension for research into the biological determinants of schizophrenic behaviour. However, it would be premature to advance an endorphin hypothesis on the pathogenesis of schizophrenic psychose...

Speechachts materials for diagnostic interview

F.A.M. Kortmann

Within the psychological profession 'language' is a very important instrument to work with. In the first sessions one tries to come to a diagnostic assessment of the client. In this article the aim is to analyse the diagnostic procedure according ...

Neuropsychological screening of eldery persons: a follow-up study

C. Jonker, J. Lindeboom

The results of neuropsychological screening of a nonclinical group of aged subjects were examined for stability and relevante by means of a follow-up study. The results suggest that the procedure is a useful aid to clinical examination. The value ...

Attitudes toward ex-mental patients and toward the mentally disturbed

C. Hosman, G. Nijhof

A sample of the Dutch population (n = 1018) has been asked for their attitudes toward people who have been discharged from a mental hospita] and toward people with a mental disorder. The attitudes are measured in terms of social distance and the p...

Research in biological determinants of schizofrenie psychoses

H.M. van Praag

This article presents a survey of the results so far obtained by CA research in psychoses of the schizofrenie type. The principle fruit of these efforts concerns the mechanism of action of neuroleptics. There are strong indications of a correlatio...

Biological backgrounds of psychological sex-differences

C. Hutt

What I have attempted to do in this talk is to define and trace the biological origins of an individual's predispositions — those predispositions which are a function of his or her sex. I have not even ouched upon the marmer in which the social en...

Psychosexual development disturbances

J.V. Ladee-Levy

By means of a scheme, derived from Mony, the psychosocial history of development is systematically overlooked. Several clinical examples illustrate the author's conclusion stating that the Gender Identity (the psychosocial gender feeling) probably...

Programmed learning, sexual identity and partnerchoice

G.P. Baerends

In this lecture an attempt has been made to apply our present knowlegde in comparative ethology to unravel the processes leading to sexual identity and partner selection. An emphasis is laid on the phenomenon of genetically programmed learning. A ...

Gender-identily disturbances in transsexualists

B.A. van Duivenboode-von Bargen

The most far-reaching gender-identity disturbance — transsexualism — is described as it is found in literature and from own experience. The writer points at the different views in literature regarding the transsexual syndrome especially its differ...

Considerations regarding Hysteria

L.Ph. de Vries

Typical for hysteria is an exaggeration of the general human tendency toward falsity.
For the hysterical personality this serves the purpose of satisfying a dominant narcissistic need, while the self-critical facility of the personality is abs...

Administrative psychiatry

H. van Andel

A description about the transformation of a psychiatric hospital was given from an administrative-psychiatric point of view. The organizational changes needed to realize a kind of patient care which makes it possible to the patient to participate ...

Clinical use of the pharmacokinetics of psychotherapeutic drugs

P.J.M. Guelen, M.J.A.J.M. Hoes, T.B. Vree

Pharmacokinetics of psychotherapeutic drugs has specific problems, related to the sensitivity of determination methods or interindividual differences in metabolism of these compounds. Furthermore, some metabolites have psychopharmacological activi...

Legal situations in mental hospitals

A.C. de Graaf

In the period of 1970-1975 the amount of informal admissions to mental hospitals increased considerably. In 1977 the ratio of informal to formal admissions tumed out to be 85 percent to 15 percent. Concerning the number of formal admissions (commi...

On the Development of the Transitional Object

H.F.J. de Witte

The concept of the transitional object has been introduced by D. W. Winnicott in 1951. F. Busch and H. Nagera have given valuable criteria for the primary transitional object. M. Hong makes a differentiation between equivalents of the transitional...

The system-theoretical view point vs. the mental overload theory in psychiatry

Th.B. Kraft

The author advocates his conception — given concrete form in the load-ratio model — as compared with the study 'New psychiatry' according to the system-theoretical principles of Lit. This model, already developed in his study on 'Overspanning' (Ov...

Diagnostic classification and coding in psychiatry

F. Bogaarts, R. Giel

Problems of classification in psychiatry are discuseed. Results are presented of an exercise in classification using section V of the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. A review of discrepancies reveals a need for bett...

Monoamines and depression: an interim report

H.M. van Praag

CA research in depressions is reviewed. The present situation can be outlined as follows.

Vital depressive patients can show central CA disorders which point in the direction of CA deficiency. In principle, this deficiency can be a primary p...

Clinical psychiatry in the iron grip

J. Pols

There is a growing ambiguity in the task of the Psychiatrie Centre. On the one side there is the task of giving optimal treatment-possibilities to psychiatric patients; on the other side there is the task of giving an asylum to people who temporar...

Monoamines and depression: an interim report

H.M. van Praag

This article reviews research into the possible significance of disorders of the central 5-HT metabolism in the pathogenesis of recurrent vital depressions. The available data would seem to warrant the tentative conclusion that such metabolic diso...

On psychogenic pain

B. van Houdenhove

In this article some literature data about the concept of psychogenic pain are discussed. After having considered the concept of pain, the psychogenic pain experience and the psychogenic pain patient, some psychological variables in connection wit...

The frequently readmitted psychiatric patient

M.J. Haveman

On the 14.429 patients admitted into the mental hospitals in 1973 0.8% had been readmitted 5 or mores times till the end of 1976. This frequently readmitted group of patients differed from the total admission-cohort in sex (more men than women) an...