Articles

Psychotherapy and the biological revolution

ISSUE 1998/7

M.M.T. Hendrikx

The debate in mental health care on value and applicability of psychotherapeutic versus biological-psychiatric treatment is often conducted without scientific arguments. Cultural and political motives interfere with scientific control. The underly...

De vooringenomenheid van de schrijver?

ISSUE 1998/7

G. Pieters

Naar aanleiding van:
Kahn, R., Gids pillen & psychiatrie. Uitgeverij Balans, Amsterdam 1997, 339 p., ƒ 39,50.

Editorial

Psychodynamische psychotherapie en paniekstoornis

The influence of daily stress on dissociative phenomena

T.J. Heeren, P. Derksen, B.F. van Heycop ten Ham, P.P.J.M. van Gent

This study examines the relation between daily stress and dissociative phenomena. The respondents of the study are exposed to a high amount of stress and dissociation is measured at two different points of time, with an interval of two months. It ...

New research

De invloed van alledaagse stress op dissociatieve verschijnselen

D. De Wachter, A. Lange, J. Vanderlinden, J. Pouw, E. Strubbe

7 januari 2008

Review article

A review of the diagnosis and treatment of tardive akathisia; is the intellectual disabled person an individual case?

P. Zonneveld, A. Dosen

Two case histories of patients with a mild intellectual disability and symptoms of psychosis, anxiety and restlesness are presented. Because of psychosis they are treated with antipsychotics. During the course of treatment signs of tardive akathis...

Life events bij patiënten in de acute dienst van achttien RIAGG's

B. van der Goot, R.A. van der Pol, V.M. Vladár Rivero

In May 1990 the characteristic features of (977) patients who entered the acute services of eighteen regional ambulatory departments for community mental health care in the Netherlands (RIAGG) were studied. One of the investigated features was the...

Case report

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and the modest role of the psychiatrist

D.W. Oppedijk

This article describes a patient with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy followed by a discussion of the relevant literature. The conclusion is drawn that psychiatry yet cannot offer very much for understanding and treatment of RSD, considering the stat...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Psychiatrische taalfouten' (4)

Reactie op 'Aspecten van farmacotherapie bij etnische minderheden'

Reactie op 'Psychiatrische taalfouten' (5)

17 februari 2004

I.K. Lampe, T.J. Heeren

State-of-the-art-article

Winter depression and light treatment I: Syndrome and treatment

Y. Meesters, R.H. van den Hoofdakker

In this article, diagnostics and treatment of winter depression are reviewed. The most important treatment, light therapy, can be administered in different ways. Besides differences in light intensity and fixtures, differences in timing and time s...

State-of-the-art-article

Winter depression and light treatment II: prevalence, etiology and pathogeneses

Y. Meesters, R.H. van den Hoofdakker

In this second review article, several aspects of winter depression are reviewed: prevalence, etiology and pathogeneses. Prevalence figures in Europe are lower than those in the USA. Prevalence figures in the USA may be related to latitude, in Eur...

New research

Flood: A pilot study on the consequences for well-being and health of adults and children

M.C. Becht, M.A.L. van Tilburg, A.J.J.M. Vingerhoets, I. Nyklicek, J. de Vries, C. Kirschbaum, M.H. Antoni, G.L. van Heck

The present pilot study focused upon the effects of the flood of 1994-1995 in the Netherlands on well-being and health of adults and children. Questionnaires for studying these effects were completed six months after the flood by children (n = 64)...

Interpersonal psychotherapy with elderly depressed patients

R.M. Kok, R. Mentjox, T.J. Heeren

This article discusses the modifications and results of interpersonal psychotherapy for elderly patients with major depression.

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Psychiatrische taalfouten' (1)

Reactie op 'Psychiatrische taalfouten' (2)

Reactie op 'Psychiatrische taalfouten' (3)

Epidemiological research on long-term use of mental health care in the Netherlands: A comparison of several regional studies

H. Kroon, J.R. Theunissen, J. van Busschbach, E.M.I.E. Raven, D. Wiersma

Seven regional studies on the population of long-term users of mental health care (i.e. more or a less continuous use over the past two years) in the Netherlands are compared. The prevalence of long-term mental health users in the Netherlands is e...

Review article

Does an overactive lifestyle increase the susceptibility to chronic fatigue syndrome?

B. van Houdenhove, E. Neerinckx

Patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are likely to show a premorbid overactive lifestyle. In this article the actual state of research on this issue is first summarized. It is further hypothesized that sociocultural, psychodynami...

Review article

Social psychiatry's approach to suicide

C. Sonneborn, G. Pieters

Psychiatrists are frequently faced with the problem of prediction and prevention of suicide. Recent relevant literature is reviewed, using a biopsychosocial model of suicide. Social factors which either precipitate or protect against suicide are g...

'Models of madness' in a dynamic psychiatry