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Psychological aspects of the medical situation are finding in the doctor-patient relationship a significant way of expression. The last years some models have been formulated, offering a general framework to categorise variations in doctorpatient ...

Some experiences of a psychiatric consultant in a general hospital are described. This is done based on a survey of referrals during a period of 6 months time. Especially, the question is raised why a psychiatric consultation has been asked for. I...

Early psychoanalysis stressed that it could explain essential things about psychosis, in tact could explain why therapeutically nothing could be done. This may reflect a kind of tacit transaction: the psychiatric establishment can keep the psychot...

After a short survey of basic-philosophies about the psychiatric centers, attention is given to the following aspects with regard to the future: clinical function, responsibility, specialisation and differentiation, internal structure and organisa...

The development of the 'day-programs' — i.e. a variety of programmed activities presented to the patient in a structured time schedule for a period of 6 weeks or (much) longer — is discussed from the point of view of activating therapy. The advant...

This paper deals with the objectives and the general plan of the interuniversity and multidisciplinary research project of the family care for the mentally ill at Geel. The project tries to make a contribution to the rapidly developing field of re...

Most 'radical' critics of psychiatry in Holland are not psychiatrists themselves, but members of other disciplines or non-professionals. Their criticism of psychiatry and of psychiatrists is seen as derived from a Marxian point of view. The import...

The conclusions of the investigation of Hogarthy (1) a.o. could not be confirmed in an investigation with the same issues in the Netherlands. In the replication of this experiment, done with an inventory of 81 items (Minn. Hartf. Pers. Ass., P.U.K...

In this paper a distinction has been made between four empirical frames of reference or scientific systems which are used in psychiatry today: the cultural system, the social system, the personality system and the biomedical system. There is a gro...

Are we the masters or the victims of our instinct for knowledge? Are we blind for the compulsive expansion of science? Knowledge induces production, homo sapiens always becomes homo faber. The problem is that we cannot stop the explosive and infin...

The behaviour of man and other animals shows so many analogies, in outline as well as in detail, that we must assume that in many cases the same mechanisms, instincts, are active in man and animal (instincts in the sense of patterns of behaviour —...

The answer to the question: 'by whom and by which factors is the future of the mental hospitals determined' is that the 'mental hospitals themselves are largely responsible for determining their future. The Government Authorities do not aim at dis...

Social psychologists have devoted many studies to the mental climate, morale or 'satisfaction' of group-members within coinpany or firm or the army. These studies are of ten intended to determine the relation between morale and output. Beside this...

Twenty patients aged 17-67 years, who had previously been included in an open study of pimozide and who had shown improvement in interest and activity and in whom psychotic symptoms had been adequately controlled, were selected for a double-blind ...

Comment is given on the close relation between environmental health and population growth. The laster is an important originator of the deteriorisation of the environment.
Space — one of the most important components of the environment — is for ex...

From a human-ecological point of view the factors of the housing-environmental system ore described in a socio-psychiatric and psycho-hygienic sense. The relevant literature is discussed.
By way of the relations found in the literature, between, o...

The transition from dwelling to living is analysed as a transition from truth — i.e. the self-consciousness of primary perceptions and feelings — to ideology — i.e. the methodological self-consciousness of technology. Anthropologists and fenomenol...

In psychiatry numbers of interpretation-procedures are used, which all confine themselves to their own scheme of conceptions. This is demonstrated by the example of comparing lanet's and Freud's explanation of the phenomenon 'déjàvu'. The former's...

In this paper the factors intertering with development and individuation of twins are described. The problems for the mother in her relation to a twin are discussed, as well as the 'twinning reaction' or the inter-identification of twins, the stro...

This article tries to give manageable information about short-term psychotherapy on psychoanalytic lires. Successively concepts, techniques and indications are discussed. In the literature much attention is given to the qualities the therapist sho...

1 — Social psychiatry is psychiatry, that is to say, it is a medical specialism.
2 —Treatnient in social psychiatry should be focused on situations and relations and not on individuals.
3 — The human course of life produces a number of predictable...

This paper deals with two social phenomena:
1 — the tact that a voluminous book on ps-ychiatry written in Dutch language sold 50.000 copies,
2 — the antipsychiatrie movement. In this paper the author tries to understand the tact mentioned above by...

A few critical remarks are made concerning alternative ideas in psychiatry and mental health, propagated by otherwise widely different authors as Laing, Cooper, Foudraine and Trimbos. The bulk of this article comprises an analysis of the most comm...

Description of recent developments and renovations in the cooperation of clinical and ambulatory psychiatric institutes in the Netherlands — compared with the German facilities in this field, where a similar movement can be perceived. The attentio...