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The central problem, viz. that moving as welt as moving about may be of therapeutie value to the mentally deficient person, was considered.
It was assumed that man presents himself by performing the task appointed to him white moving about in a wa...

This article is an attempt to give an insight in the practical use of movementtherapy concisely.
Movement therapy is a treatment which approaches the psychiatrie patient in his being 'man-who-is-moving', is executed by means of movement-patterns o...

Because of the fact that above all music is executed in-the-time (in contest to the art of painting and so on, which is performed in-space) it is valued as elusive. Neither the physician nor the musictherapist appear to be in position to come to a...

Referring to a succestul prolonged psychotherapy of a patient who suffered from a recurring self-mutilation of the eyes, we discussed several pathogenetic and psychodynamic factors of the syndrome of idiopathic automutilation.
These patients are s...

20 years of experience in the outdoorclinic for prevention and aftercare of neurosyphilis in Amsterdam leads to a scheme of treatment. Longlasting and repeated cures of depotpenicillin in high dosage are used, based on regular control of the cereb...

The clinical finding in six mentally ill female patients, all treated with chlorpromazine or thioridazine are presented. All these patients developed a peculiar purplish pigmentation of the face, neck and hands. they show a granular brownish pigme...

An activity group has been formed with eight female patients, all of them suftering from anorexia nervosa, and two therapists (male and female). A description is given of the experiences with this closed group during the first seven months of its ...

During a 6 months period of group therapy, 8 female anorexia-nervosa patients in the age range of 15-35 years were presented with a list of self-statements selected from a general (Q-sort) questionnaire. The 12 items chosen expressed a certain deg...

Treatment of emotionally-disturbed adolescents is met with many problems, as well in individual as in group therapy. Therefore, Hirsch and others have searched for other therapeutic media and techniques, one of them being the activity discussion g...

In a short survey is announced the natural-philosophical-base of the psychiatry which had led to the entry of the internal medicin in the medical team of the meetal hospita's in the Netherlands.

Aspects of internal medicine in psychotic patients can be reviewed according following items:
a) Internal diseases resulting in psychosis (symptomatic psychosis).
b) Internal complications as a result of intensive and long-term treatment with psyc...

The use drug-combinations increases the risk of side-effects and makes the diagnoses of these side-effects more difficult. The writer refers to the relatively high incidente of systemic lupus erythematosus in a ;tiental hospital (three certain and...

In spite of the coming of the chemist in the meetal hospital the internat medicine specialist has stilt a task to per form in the research in psychiatry:
in putting the problems, in testing the hypotheses by his own methods and by evoluating the d...

The carbohydrate-metabolism with depressive patients appears to be disturbed, one can of ten establish a low glucose-tolerante (high curves). In the mank phase the glucosetolerance-curves are normal. The disturbed carbohydrate- nietabolism should ...

A short survey is given of the bistory and the achievements of biological psychiatry the Interdisciplinary Society of Biological Psychiatry is expounded.
As regards the working-method of the new society the stress will be laid on the formation, an...

The author discusses the evolution and the present state of neuropsychiatry in the Netherlands. Although psychiatry has reached a high standard research facilities have been relatively lacking for systematic psychobiological research. This was con...

The will of the alchemists

One examined in how far the two notions mind-matter are relevant to the biochemical contribution to biological psychiatry. The conclusion is negative. From the available data about the clinical picture phenylketonuri...

In connection with the interdisciplinary approach in psychiatry a few problems are discussed, amongst others that of the differente in meaning of the 'lotion normal in the cooperating disciplines. At the same time there is a reference to the diffe...

In the introduction some remarks were made about the difficulties in applying the scientific method to the study of behaviour in humans. Especially the great individual variability and objections against types of experimentation seem to prevent a ...

Lack of adequate treatment for chronic alcoholics in the Mental Hospital ,,Huize Padua" at Boekel, Netherlands, stimulated the building of a separate inpatient clinic for addicts, at some distance from the basis hospital. Admission in this clinic ...

Description of the experiences with the first 80 male alcoholics in a new hospital department for addicts.
Some somatic, psychiatrie and sociological data are given. With the threefold purpose of the clinic as a basis, some problems regarding abst...

On the basis of psychological investigation of 70 alcoholic patients three observations can be made.
1 Experimental psychological results show no significant differentiation between the alcoholic patient and the normal subject.
2 This raises the q...

77 E.E.G.'s from chronic alcoholics showed in about 50% a low voltage and a surplus of tast activity, which is according to the litterature on this subject a rather characteristic picture of the E.E.G. in ases of chronic alcoholism, apart from the...

The treatment of a severe alcoholic with a committed hospitalisation is described. The author makes a plea for an early enforced treatment, because the results turn out to be favourable.