Articles

Standardization of depression questionnaires

F.G. Zitman, E.J.L. Griez, Chr. Hooijer

A committee on the standardization of questionnaires invited 93 Dutch researchers in the field of clinical psychiatry and the Dutch branches of 15 pharmaceutical industries to send copies of the depression questionnaires they used. 53% responded, ...

Chronic pain and the three-systems model of emotions, a critical examination

J.W.S. Vlaeyen, A.M.J. Snijders, J.A. Schuerman, J.J.C.B. Bremer, H. van Eek, N.H. Groenman

The three-systems model of emotions, so far exclusively applied for fear and anxiety, is summarized and its suitability for chronic back pain is examined. For each of the three systems, a possible conceptualisation and paradigm is suggested. Altho...

A follow-up study of alcoholics after clinical treatment

J.C. van de Velde, G.E. Schaap, H. Land

This study describes the follow-up of a group of patients treated in an addiction clinic. Some correlates of recovery are assessed. At admission and follow-up moments the patients filled out questionnaires. Initially, 881 patients participated, fo...

A standardfile of patient data used in a Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Ph.D.A. Treffers, A.W. Goedhart, J. Waltz, E. Koudijs

In this article a survey is given of the literature about the development of computerized standard files to be used in child and adolescent psychiatry. The possibilities of application of computerized standard files, its advantages, as well as the...

Involuntary admission in the city of The Hague.

ISSUE 1989/1

M. Vegt, M. van der Velden

The writers of this paper have tried to verify if, for the period of 1982-1986 in the city of The Hague, changes in departmental markings concerning involuntary admissions of psychiatric patients, had any effect on the number of involuntary admiss...

The effects of divorce on children

ISSUE 1989/1

A.A. Tusenius

In this article the possible effects of divorce on the children concerned are discussed. These effects can take on very serious proportions as is apparent from large scale studies into the subject. The consequences of the divorce for children in v...

A study of chronic mentally ill and their hospital environment: patient characteristics and treatment

ISSUE 1989/1

B. de Ruiter, L. Henkelman

The authors present the results of a study that examined 264 chronic mentally ill and their hospital environment, in 1984.

Patient characteristics and treatment programs were found to be homogeneous, which results in maximal adaptation at the ...

The follow-up project Psychotherapeutic Communities

R.F. Koning, J.E.A. Wagenborg

This article offers an overview of the follow-up project Psychotherapeutic Communities on which from 1984 until 1987 nine articles were published in this journal. We comment upon the question to what degree this long term project has contributed t...

The psychiatrist and dangerousness as a motif for commitment

A. Kaasenbrood

According to the law, in The Netherlands dangerousness resulting from mental illness is the standard for acute commitment. The subject of this article is whether psychiatrists do actually meet this standard. With respect to an analysis of psychiat...

The Geriatric Mental State Schedule (GMS); reliability of the Dutch version

C. Hooijer, G.C. van der Veer, W. de Rijke, W. van Tilburg

The GMS, a standardized interview for the elderly, was translated in Dutch. Motives for conducting the present investigation were translation itself, the application in The Netherlands and some gaps in the results of former investigations. A relia...

Panic attack as medical emergency

M. van Moffaert, R. Spiers, W. Buylaert, J. van Brantegem

Because of the nature and the intensity of the somatic symptoms that are inherent to acute anxiety paroxism, a number of patients suffering from panic attacks turn to medical emergency departments. When the anxiety is a symptom of an underlying ac...

Developmental-dynamic approach to the psychiatric diagnostics in mentally retarded children

A. Dosen

So called `Defect-theory' in the approach to the diagnostics and the treatment of mentally ill, mentally retarded children is in the recent time more and more a debatable matter. The developmental approach to this problems gets the attention of th...

Aristotle, emotions and psychopathology

G. Glas

Psychiatry is still in need of a concept of emotion, from which affective phenomena can be described and systematically ordered. Recent developments in psychology and philosophy show a lively theoretical interest in emotions. It is to be expected,...

The use of carbamazepine in affective disorders

M. Cruyt, H. de Cuyper

This survey examines the curative and prophylactic efficacy of carbamazepine in the treatment of affective disorders. Nearly 70% of the manic patients treated with carbamazepine shows a favourable response. Besides, carbamazepine has anti-depressi...

A study of chronic mentally ill and their hospital environment: a heterogeneous patient-population and homogeneous treatment-programs

L. Henkelman, B. de Ruiter, B. Tellegen

This research was aimed at the analysis of treatment-programs offered by 13 wards of a hospital for mental health care and the characteristics of the 264 chronically mentally ill, receiving these treatments. Treatment-programs were found to be rat...

Report on a researchproject concerning the frequency of suicide in the region around the hospital at Roermond in the period 1975-1983

B.G. Soons

This article contains a survey of the exact data concerning suicides in the region around the hospital at Roermond and the parasuicides treated clinically there during the period 1975-1983. It appears that 50% of the suicides dit not receive psych...

Deficit states in bipolar disorder?

J.P.C.J. Selten, T. Kuipers

In a study of the relevant literature the authors arrive at the conclusion that up to the present date there are no adequate case histories of deficit states in bipolar disorder. The residual state described by Huber bears more resemblance to a ne...

Protective housing: an inquiry into a discussed matter

T.F. van Wel, A.C. van den Hout

Views on the interpretation of the protective housing issue have until now been brought out in a scarcely organized manner. In this study the opinions on this matter are listed in a systematic way. It turns out that protective housing needs to hav...

Psychosomatics and psychiatry

M.J.A.J.M. Hoes

The specificity criterium permits discrimination between being sick and illness. Psychosomatic medicine studies the aspecific aspects of being sick in the patient, scholastic medicine, e.g. psychiatry, the illnesses. Strain, compensated by stress ...

Overstraining as a risk factor for myocardial infarction

A. Appels, P. Mulder

To test the hypothesis that those who ever passes a period of being overstrained are at elevated risk to suffer from myocardial infarction, the question `Have you ever been overstrained? was included in a prospective study of 3877 males, aged 40-6...

About structural diagnostics and the structural interview

J.J.L. Derksen, J.W. Hummelen, J.M.P. Bouwens

In this article a recent development is explained within psychoanalytic tradition, the structural diagnostics. Structural psychodiagnostics are the first step in the psychodiagnostic activity directed at diagnosing the ego and in this way personal...

The skills of longstay patients and its impact on discharge eligibility

M.J. Haveman

By concept and factoranalysis four types of skills were distinguished: basic personal skills (14 items), social skills (4 items), internal (6 items) and external social integration (20 items). In a sample of 381 longstay patients of 5 mental hospi...

The MHPG excretion in depressive and non-depressive psychiatric inpatients

E. Suy, P. Cosyns

The 3 methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol excretion (MHPG flow) and the creatinine excretion in 24 h urine, are measured in depressive inpatients, subdivided according to the DSM-III as minor depression (309.00, 300.40; 296.82), major depression without...

Cyclic antidepressants revisited: judging efficacy and criteria of choice