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One and one is three

H.T. Piron

In recent years psychoanalytic theory and practice suffered from a tendency to neglect some basic Freudian concepts. The influence of European phenomenologic psychopathology and American interpersonal psychiatry has been leading to new psychothera...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking (part II)

R. van Dijck

Theoretical concepts, derived from systems and communication theory as explained in part one, are applied in a description of therapeutic communication (part two). In this description Haley's views (Haley, 1963) on hypnosis, directive-, non-direct...

De discussie in Nederland rond het transseksualisme heropend

Who is made of reason...

R.H. van den Hoofdakker

In his book Who is made of wood ... (Which will be published in the near future in English under the title Not made of wood). Foudraine, a Dutch psychiatrist, describes his 'journey through the psychiatric world': how he was trained to consider pe...

The therapeutic community and to-morrow's Society

P. Bierenbroodspot

Therapeutic community can play an important role in the development of the organisation of community mental health in future. The therapeutic community is mostly described in terms stemming from very different frames of reference: social, therapeu...

The meaning of festivals

J.A. Groen

Festivals have always been of great importance in human life. The author tries to come to a better understanding of this phenomenon by using psychoanalytic concepts. As an example of festivals a description is given of Carnival in the South-Nether...

Experiences with disulfiram implants in the treatment of alcoholics; description of a disulfiram psychosis

Th.B. Kraft

The author reports his experiences in 21 alcoholics in whom disulfiram tablets were implanted into the M.rectus abdominis. The — as yet scanty — literature is briefly discussed, as well as the comparatively limited field of indication. The case of...

Case bistory of a post concentration camp syndrome, recognized too late

W.J. Kappelle

The case history of a patient with a post concentration camp syndrome is discussed. The syndrome was recognized too late and it was found necessary to replace the psycho-therapy by a social therapy.The possibility is considered that fantasies of g...

Working methods, basic philosophy and results of an experimental therapeutic program: the Communication Centre for marital partners at Lovenjoel, near Leuven

J. Verhulst, A. Vansteenwegen

The article gives a short description of the working methods, the basic philosophy and the results of an experimental therapeutic program for marital partners, established at the University of Leuven in 1972. This program is organised on a three-w...

Encountering and Gestalt

W.C.M. Smits

Encounter and Gestalt-therapy have a great deal to tell us about how humans grow, how we can avoid or prevent our own growth and how we can uncover and overcome obstacles that prevent this process of growing. There is much unclear about the use of...

Siblings of emotionally disturbed children

B.H. van Hof

Having an emotionally disturbed child in a family means a heavy burden, to which everyone reacts in a different way. This hardship can cause desintegrational consequences under which all members of the family suffer. In social treatment it is impo...

Notities inzake arbeidsongeschiktheid

Creative Therapy with Neurotics

A.H. Hijmans van den Bergh

In creative therapy (CT), we are to worry about consistent therapy rather than about marginal niceties. Various therapeutic aims in CT and various modes of its use with groups or individuals are distinguished. It is shown that in a residential set...

Directive therapy with marital couples and families

R. van Dijck

A brief discription is given of behavioral techniques of family and marital therapy along the Tines of Knox, Stuart and Liberman. This approach is compared to the strategies of paradoxical interventions as used by therapists such as Haley, Jackson...

The psychiatrists in private practice

J.L.M. van der Beek

The present situation of psychiatric treatment is described. The training of more psychiatrists can never solve the problem of an ever-increasing number of psychiatric patients. New models are proposed, like group psychotherapy, and groups for cou...

Sharing or delegation of power, an important therapeutic decision in the development of a psychiatric hospital

P. Bierenbroodspot

The concept of the therapeutic community has become widely accepted as the basis model at which the modern mental hospital should aim. The therapeutic character of the therapeutic community can be shortly described as intrapsychic (by counteractin...

Idols, ideals, ideologies

J.A. Groen

The question is raised why idols, ideals and ideologies play such an important role in human life. In our daily psycho-analytical work can be demonstrated how both transference and countertransference are influenced by idolisation, idealizing and ...

Goal Attainment Scaling; a method for evaluating psychotherapies

C.A.M. de Wit

Goal Attainment Scaling is a method, where every client, every problem and every variable aspect of those problems are evaluated as different from other clients, other problems and other variable aspects: it is an individualized evaluating method....

De kinderpsychiatrie en haar relaties met andere psychiatrische richtingen

Report on an investigation concerning some psychological aspects of conscientious objectors

M. Kabela

In the ABV-test, (Amsterdamse Biografische Vragenlijst, a Dutch personality questionnaire), the conscientious objectors scored highly on the N-scale, (neurotic lability as far as manifested in psycho-neurotic complaints), and on the NS-scale, (neu...

Patient, physician and nurse; their mutual relationship then and now

R. Bambang Oetomo

This article deals with 'fake roles' of patient, physician and nurse. These fake roles originated over the years in mental as well as general hospitals. We call them fake roles because dysfunctional aspects of theirs with respect to therapeutic ob...

Improvement of the climate in a psychiatric hospital; a process that asks for a methodical approach

H. van Andel

Processes of change in a psychiatric hospital are discussed. They are related to a methodical improvement of the climate. Climate was described as a balance arising between the emotional and material needs and expectations of patients and those of...

From renovation to growth; the contribution of a process consultant

J.F. van Ravenzwaaij

The changes in the mental hospital make rather high demands on staff and patients. There is a growing insight that the approach toward the patients should be different from the traditional doctor-patient relationship. In this paper we describe how...

Mededelingen uit het Centrale Patienten-register voor psychiatrische ziekenhuizen en universiteitsklinieken