Articles

Sociodrama, methodology and psychiatric applications

ISSUE 1991/2

J. Meillo, G. Nabarro

This article describes the characteristic features of sociodrama, a form of group therapy in which active techniques are used. The theoretical background of sociodrama and its main psychiatric applications are also described. Concluding remarks ar...

Social role development of ambulant chronic mentally ill, illustrated with a case-history

ISSUE 1991/2

E. Noothoorn, M. Romme, H. Hamers, L. Vallenga

Successful rehabilitation of the chronic mentally ill quite often depends on interventions in the social environment (Shepherd 1989). Enhancement of social functioning means optimalizing existing social roles and facilitating a productive environm...

War and business: the use of metaphors in teamdiscussions in a psychiatric inst

ISSUE 1991/2

E. van Dongen

The article works out the idea that metaphors in discussions about clients in a psychiatric institute are used in the first place to make sense of experiences and emotions of the therapists instead of only giving information about treatment and he...

Tricyclic antidepressants in schizophrenia

B.M. de Vries, J.W. Louwerens, J. Korf, C.J. Slooff

Depressive symptoms frequently occur in patients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. Depressive symptoms can be differentiated from negative symptoms and occur in all phases of schizophrenia. Some pathogenetic hypotheses about these symptom...

How to talk best with ghosts

R.F. Riemersma

Based on his own psychotic experiences with voices, conversations with other psychotics and the literature, the author proposes the idea to engage in psychotherapy that recognizes the existence of ghosts. The psychotic experience is considered fro...

Neurolepsia and akinesia

J.P.C.J. Selten

In European psychiatric literature the emotional distance and lack of motivation produced by neuroleptic therapy are referred to with the term `neurolepsis' or `psycholepsis'.

In American literature the same phenomena are pointed out with the ...

The reliability of the videodistortion method for assessing body image disturbances in eating disorder patients

M. Probst, H. Vancoppenolle, W. Vandereycken, M. Goris

6 december 2008

In the videodistortion method subjects are asked to reconstruct the exact sizes of their boby image as shown in a distorted form on a video screen. The reliability of this method (test-retest) is studied in anorexia nervosa patients and female stu...

Editorial

Vijftig jaar moderne psycho-farmaca: een feestelijk jubileum?

Forensisch psychiatrische patiënten met geweldsdelicten: persoonlijkheidskenmerken en gedrag

R.H.J. Hornsveld, C.M.J. van Dam-Baggen, S.M.M. Lammers, H.L.I. Nijman, F.W. Kraaimaat

background On the basis of the international literature the combined group of inpatients serving a tbs-sentence and forensic outpatients is expected to obtain higher scores on the personality domains of neuroticism and extraversion and lower score...

Review article

Personality disorders in the elderly

S.P.J. van Alphen, G.J.J.A. van Engelen, Y. Kuin, J.J.L. Derksen

background Personality disorders in the elderly constitute a relative novel topic in psychology and psychiatry.
aim To investigate whether the DSM-concept 'personality disorder' is applicable to the elderly and to find out what is known about the ...

Essay

The psychiatrist as supportive object

M. Hebbrecht

background In recent editions of the Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie there have been discus-sions about the role of the psychiatrist. At the basis of the psychiatrist's professional identity as a medical specialist lies the psychiatrist's more fundam...

State-of-the-art-article

Anxiety disorders in children: which type of psychosocial treatment has proved effective?

S.L.M. van der Toorn, R.F. Ferdinand

background Cognitive behavioural intervention programmes are known to be effective in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders.
aim To provide an answer to the question: which type of psychosocial treatment should be used with children sufferi...

Case report

Methylphenidate in adults with ADHD and cocaine addiction

T. Malesevic, W. van den Brink, H.L. Van

17 maart 2004

Summary Prescribing methylphenidate to cocaine addicts with adult adhd is a controversial therapy. The restraint that is recommended in the guidelines is based on experimental research into the addictive nature of methylphenidate. Although very li...

Case report

Flumazenil possibly efficacious in patients in a coma caused by clozapine in combination with benzodiazepines

J.J. Peetoom, P.F.J. Schulte

summary Two elderly patients and a patient with a hereditary degenerative neurological disease went into a coma after ingesting a first dose of 100 mg clozapine either due to medication errors or during the titration phase of clozapine. All patien...

Abstract

Minder opnames in de drie jaar na behandeling van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen in een therapeutische gemeenschap

Cortisol, cognitie en de hippocampus

Amfetamines tegen het chronisch-vermoeidheidssyndroom?

A. van Nispen tot Pannerden

Abstract

Predictie van psychose mogelijk?

Reactie op 'Rapportage pro Justitia'

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Een pil tegen vreetbuien met overgewicht?' Termen met verkeerde suggesties

Short-term residential psychiatric treatment

W. van Hezewijk, N. Sijben

14 maart 2004

In this article we review the literature on research on the subject to reducing length of stay. We focus on, especially American, controlled studies of short-term versus standard/long-term hospitalization, other studies (uncontrolled) and Dutch st...

Psychiatry, phenomenology and the primacy of clinical experience (1900-circa 1925)

14 maart 2004

G. Verwey

`Phenomenology; as it came to the fore in psychiatry between 1900 and about 1925, is, methodically speaking, little else than a modified continuation of the (`phenomenological') anti-reductionism, such as, from the beginnings of clinical psychiatr...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

P.N. van Harten, W. van den Brink

14 maart 2004

This article provides a description of five different concepts of the narcissistic personality disorder: the psychoanalytic concepts according to Kohut and Kernberg, the atheoretical concept of DSM-III(-R) and two so-called compromise concepts. Th...

The effect of vitamin B3 on children with behavioural deficits