Articles

C.J. Laban, E.J. Colon

A huge amount of various therapies has been introduced during the last decennia for treatment of schizophrenia. However, the number of patients that suffers from increasing disabilities remains impressive. This justifies the search for new strateg...

Erotomania: passion with psychotic complications?

Y. de Kok

It is controversial whether the delusional disorder, erotomanic type, can be consid- ered as a primary disorder. Most cases diagnosed as primary erotomanic delusional disorder are in fact secondary to another disorder, mostly schizophrenia or bipo...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a frequent disorder in adults

G. Postmes

Review the subject literature on ADHD in adulthood to check the clinical impression that ADHD is not only a child, but also an adult psychiatric disorder. Given this objective the emphasis is on symptoms, etiology and prognosis. Diagnosis and trea...

The need for care, fifteen years after the onset of schizophrenia or a related illness

D. Wiersma, R. Giel, A. de Jong, F.J. Nienhuis, C.J. Slooff

Within the framework of the WHO Coordinated Multi-Center Study on the Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia carried out in 20 countries a cohort of 63 patients coming from a circumscribed area in the northern part of Holland is being followed up abo...

Supporting caregivers of dementia patients: the effects

P. Cuijpers, H. Nies

In recent years several methods for supporting caregivers of dementia patients have been developed. This article reviews the scientific research of these methods. It appears that in the relatively few studies only the effects of support groups, re...

Dwang in de psychiatrie; patiëntenrechten en beroepsethiek

F.A.M. Kortmann

The BOPZ, a new Dutch Mental Health Act, enhances the right of the patient to self-determination and partially restricts the application of compulsory admission. At present this right to self-determination has such a priority that the right of the...

Etiological meaning of severe life events and long-term difficulties in the onset of depression and anxiety

G. van Willige, J. Ormel, R. Giel

Objective of this study was to elaborate and test hypotheses on the role of life stress in the onset of anxiety and depression. More specifically, it addressed the problem of the threshold value of life events (how threatening does an event have t...

What every psychiatrist should know but never dares to ask

M.W. Hengeveld

The little that is known about the sexual life of psychiatric patients points to a high prevalence of unsafe behaviour and of sexual dysfunctions, mainly due to psychotropic medication. As psychiatrists often do not (dare to) talk about sexual beh...

The Dutch translation of the McMaster Family Assessment Device

W.F. Maillette de Buy Wenniger, A.J.J.M. van Loon, R.H.I. Benoist, N. Moleman

The Dutch version of the FAD (FAD-N) is introduced. Its possibilities, validity and usefulness are examined in the perspective of other available instruments.

On the threshold of the BOPZ: results of research on the legal position of involuntarily committed psychiatric patients, before the introduction of the Psychiatric Hospitals Compulsory Admission Act

C.J. van de Klippe, M.A. Franchimont

The Psychiatric Hospitals Compulsory Admission Act (Wet Bijzondere Opnemingen in Psychiatrische Ziekenhuizen, BOPZ) was introduced in The Netherlands in January 1994, and will be evaluated in 1997, when both its intended and unintended effects wil...

Schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders

D. Wiersma, F.J. Nienhuis, R. Giel, A. de Jong, C.J. Slooff

In the present study 63 out of 82 (76%) subjects were followed-up 15 years after their first non-affective psychosis with a standardized interview, containing psychopathological measures (PSE) as well as observational measures (SANS). Of the origi...

A neuropsychological approach to alexithymia

B. Bermond

The alexithymia concept refers to the incapacity to experience emotional feelings which is assumed to result in psychosomatic complaints. Although often used in the literature the concept of alexithymia is still ill-defined. This has resulted in c...

No smoke without fire. Smoking considered from a psychiatric perspective

C.A.G. van Houten

Smoking is a public health problem for which psychiatrists show increasing interest. For the development and the continuation of the smoking habit both psychosocial factors and the neuroregulating effects of nicotine are important. Nicotine is a p...

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy of diabetespatients; borderland between psychiatry and internal medicine

R.E. Breuk, W. van Tilburg

Specialists of internal medicine should take into account that poor metabolic control is often related to behavioural problems of diabetes patients. Specialists of internal medicine should consider sending the frequently poorly controlled group of...

Did the Flemish composer Peter Benoit suffer from a bipolar disorder?

E. Baeck

During the series of concerts he conducted for the World Exposition at Antwerp in 1885 the Flemish composer P. Benoit had a break-down which is attributed by all his biographers to excess of work and duties. However, scrutiny of his life events, h...

Negative symptoms: a unidimensional construct related to frontal lobe deficits

M.G. Vollema, G.J. Geurtsen, T. Kuipers

In this study strong evidence was found for the unidimensionality of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Forty-six schizophrenic patients were rated on the negative subscale of the Positive And Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), after which a fa...

The Inventory for Déjà vu Experiences Assessment (IDEA)

H.N. Sno, H.F.A. Schalken, F. de Jonghe, M.W.J. Koeter

In this article the development, utility, reliability and validity of the Inventory for Déjà vu Experiences Assessment (IDEA) are described. The IDEA is a 23-item self- administered questionnaire consisting of a general section of 9 questions and ...

Everyday psychiatric symptoms as presenting symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

F.B. van der Wurff, W.A. van Gool, A. Hijdra

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rapidly progressive and invariably fatal dementing illness. The presenting symptoms can be difficult to differentiate from psychiatric disorders and other organic mental disorders. We describe three patients who illu...

DSM-IV: the decline of the term `organic'

ISSUE 1995/7

L. Zegerius, M.D. Waldinger

The term `organic' is no longer used in DSM-IV because, according to the members of the `DSM-IV Workgroup on Organic Mental Disorders', it incorrectly implies that `nonorganic' mental disorders do not have a biological basis. The disorders, in DSM...

The relationship between excerpts of recorded music and values of depressed patients

ISSUE 1995/7

H. Smeijsters, G. Wijzenbeek, N. van Nieuwenhuijzen

This article is an account of the results of a research into the relation between excerpts of music and values with depressive patients. At the first stage of the research, a list of values and a questionnaire were drawn up and excerpts of music w...

Prediction of the risk of reoffending in TBS

ISSUE 1995/7