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Compulsion hysteria

E. Verbeek

Compulsion is the most important symptom not only of compulsion diseases but acts as a dynamic element in relatively exceptional form of hysteria, called in this article compulsionhysieria. Out of three patients observed by the author one is exten...

Epilepsy... and what next!

H. Smits

The epilepsies, as 'endemic' illness, require a combination of short- and longterm treatment, during the entire lifetime. People suffering from epilepsy form a collectivum with its own characteristics, which might make the group recognizable. Ever...

The use of lithium in manic depressive psychoses

J.H. Thiel

Survey of literature on the therapeutic and prophylactic value of lithium carbonate. The therapeutic value in the treatment of mania has been established beyond doubt; the therapeutic value in depression is doubtful and is inferior to the effect o...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking

R. van Dijck

In this article an attempt is made to intruduce briefly the central concepts of general systems theory and communication theory and to illustrate their application to psychiatric thinking. The review is mainly based on publications of authors such...

Relationship between a mental hospital and a psychiatric ward of a general hospital

K. Visser

In this paper we have stressed the point that psychiatry as basic science cannot be ignored any longer in the whole of medical sciences represented in a general hospital. It is now time therefore to draw practical conclusions from this by mapping ...

Some aspects of the mental hospital in the turbulance of this era

F.M. Meijers

Since the second half of this century the psychiatric hospitals (in the Netherlands) are populated in increasing numbers with individuals who, more or less and to a certain extent are the victims of the unstable times in which we live. It is quest...

Psychotherapy, gratification and the mental hospital

F.J.M Rouppe van der Voort

Some patients in mental hospitals show, during their stay an increasing dependency and need for security, in addition to a decrease of personal responsibility. This tendency is facilitated by social laws and institutions. From the psychoanalytical...

Psychiatric examination in a situation strange to the patient

R.E. Abraham

During the first contacts with a new patient, the psychiatrist may have the feeling that the story of his life, the picture of his person, the patiënt presents to him is somehow incomplete. Sometimes, especially with 'experienced' patients it turn...

Report on an investigation concerning some psychological aspect of conscientious objectors

M. Kabela

At the end of 1971, 176 conscripts, who had made an appeal to the Bill 'Conscientious Objections to Military Service', were subjected to a psychological examination, on voluntary basis. We did not select a representative group of conscientious obj...

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