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On the impossible concept schizophrenia

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
H.M. van Praag
Schizophrenia is an impossible concept. It is used to summarize a group of psychoses which have in common that consciousness usually (not even always) remains unclouded during their course. No other common characteristics have been demonstrated in...Read more
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The syndrome of 'Lasthénie de Ferjol'

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
M. van Moffaert
The case of a female patient with factitious anemia through self-bloodletting, has been the occasion for investigating the psychopathology of self-mutilation, malingering and self-bloodletting. It can be assumed that hospital admission and medical...Read more
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Clinieal aspects of cranial hyperostosis

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J.J.C. Marlet
After a brief orientation into the problem of cranial hyperostosis and in particular hyperostosis frontalis interna — the hyperostosis most frequently to be found in women — a clinical examination of three groups of female patients in a psychiatri...Read more
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The course of dementia in the elderly

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
L.A. Cahn, H.F.A. Diesfeldt
The course of dementia of old age is inpredictable for an important part. It is not possible to differentiate between groups of patients characterized by a specific course of the disease. Moreover there is found a remarkable variability between i...Read more
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Living and hospitalization

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
I. E. I. M. van Eynde
One of the functions of a psychiatrie hospital is the so-called private or guest-house function. Each methodical-therapeutic approach, eventually constitutes to the existence of a normal human residence. The anthropological structure of this resi...Read more
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Evaluating of therapeutic evolution and procedures by patients in clinical group-psychotherapy settings

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
H. van Coppenolle, R. Pierloot, J. Wambeke
A judgment regarding the direction (improvement or worsening) and the nature (somatic, psychological) of their evolution has been asked to 58 patients staying since at least three months in one of three different clinical group-psychotherapy setti...Read more
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Some aspects of government and administration institutions of clinical mental health

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
D. Jacobs
The author describes some problems of governing clinical mental health institutions as there are: responsability toward the regional population and patients, specificity of management in mental health, participation of personnel in management, dem...Read more
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Psychoanalytic views on female sexuality

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
M. Hageman-Bal
A brief survey is given of the literature concerning the phallic phase and the development of the oedipal feelings in the psycho-sexual development of the girl. The reasons for the apparent opposition between the Vienna and the London schools are ...Read more
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Experience with sex-therapy: the 'natural sexual response' as an illusion

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
W. Everaerd
Several methods for treatment of heterosexual dysfunction were investigated at the State University of Utrecht. A general evaluation is formulated in this paper. Therapy for sexual dysfunction seems to be succesfull. Females in comparison with ma...Read more
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Cinderella and Catskin

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J.A. Groen
The opinion is expressed that fairy tales can help clarify issues about unconscious intrapsychic conflicts. Tales as Cinderella and Catskin throw light on a defensive manoeuver that is used by some women to ward off dangers that are related to the...Read more
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A feminist approach to counseling; experiences in the U.S.A.

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
T. van Rooijen-Smoor
In this paper some historical and theoretical aspects of feminist counseling are described. Historically feminist counseling is an outgrowth of what is developing in consciousness-raising groups. This type of counseling stresses women to modify t...Read more
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The controversy between psychoanalysis and feminism

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
R. Vecht-van den Bergh
According to the feminists, psychoanalytic theories describe women to be inferior creatures and regard their characters to be determinated by biological aspects. Horney and Thompson as well as modern psychoanalysts agree with the feminists that th...Read more
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On masochism in women

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J.A. Groen
In psychoanalytic literature on masochism relatively little attention is paid to women. In this paper an attempt is made to describe masochism in women from a genetic and psychodynamic point of view. It is held that preoedipal as well as oedipal...Read more
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Psychotherapy with children in 'therapeutic foster-family placement'

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
T. Graafsma
In this article several aspects are discussed of psychotherapy with children in 'therapeutic foster-family placement' (T.G.V.). T.G.V. is considered a method of treatment for emotionally disturbed children (mostly with affective disorders) which ...Read more
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Behavioral approach to and therapy of bronchial asthma: survey and experimental case

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
M.G.T Kwee
Exhaustive review on the behavioral approach to bronchial asthma and concise description of an experimental therapy. After outlining the pathological condition the etiological importante of psychological factors is pointed out. An account is prese...Read more
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Gestalttherapy preliminary

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
E. Heylen
Gestalt Therapy is a very meaningfull new approach in psychotherapy of the 'whole person' (as an entity in the organism-environment field), enabling him to become more complete and self-supporting. After some information on its historical backgro...Read more
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Patients and their Partners. A psychological study of couples from a psychiatric out-patient department. Part 1: the contagion theory.

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
R. van Dijck, H.M. van der Ploeg
This study is intended as a replication of previous research by Kreitman and Ovenstone on psychopathology in married couples. According to their 'contagion theory' a more than average level of psychopathology is to be expected in the partners of p...Read more
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Characteristics of out-patients attending the clinic for over a year

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
F.G. Zitman
Some patients keep visiting the university out-patient clinic for years in spite of low frequency of visits and a rapid succesion of physicians. In literature it is supposed, that for these people visiting the out-patient clinic is a goal in itsel...Read more
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The Freudian mistake and co-ordination

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J. van Heerden
The so-called Freudian mistake is usually considered as the interfence of at least two thoughts. In this article the question is asked which linguistic description comes nearest to the psychoanalytic interpretation of the Freudian slip. The best l...Read more
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Video in the teaching of psychiatry

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J.A.C. Bleeker
Opportunities for psychiatrists to show their work are scarce, even more so for large audiences. The necessary demonstrations of patients in lecture rooms are a source of understandable criticism. Four years ago, in order to solve this problem, we...Read more
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Patients and their partners; a psychological study of couples from a psychiatric out-patient department. Part II: proposal for an explanatory model

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
R. van Dijck, H.M. van der Ploeg
Data on the incidence of mental illness as related to sex and marital status, as well as studies on role differences between marital partners tend to support our conclusion that wives are more likely than husbands to show a negative effect on thei...Read more
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Laring for the psychotic person: thoughts on the theme of psychotherapy in the mental hospital

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J. Foudraine
Various forms of reform in mental hospitals are under way. Despite many sources of resistance there is a growing tendency to embrace a psychotherapeutic ideology. The author focusses on the problems around the organization of individual, group and...Read more
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Therapeutic climate and socio therapeutic praxis

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
I. E. I. M. van Eynde
The nature of a 'therapeutic climate' which was and is used in psychiatrie hospitals depended specifically on the model used. Since the time of Pinel, this climate functioned mainly on a medical basis. After a few experiments in the 19th century, ...Read more
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Referring from the psychiatrie hospita! to individual foster families and the foster family care organization of Geel

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
R.A. Pierloot, M. Demarsin
Referring to a foster family is considered as an opportunity to discharge from the psychiatrie hospital some patients not disposing of a natural milieu adapted to receive them. In our experience of the last years we distinguish two types of referr...Read more
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