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The Community Mental Health Centers in the USA

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
A.E. Baert
After defining the concept of the Community Mental Health Centers and giving an overview of the principles, the author describes the five most needed ways for the operationalization and the implementation of the community approach in mental health...Read more
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Systems Approach and Clinical Psychiatry

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
W. van Tilburg, D. Keuning
After a general introduction to and a brief historical survey of the development of systems approach the autors try to explore the significante of the system concept for clinical psychiatry as a potential tool for reconceptualizing the theories ab...Read more
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A phenomenological model for melancholia according to Tellenbach; effectiveness of the endogeny concept.

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
P. Igodt
The discontinuous transition to psychosis is only made if the particular endon is capable of qualitative pathological change, either idiokinetic or endotropic; this Tellenbach terms endokinesis. These three elements, namely Typus Melancholicus, 'I...Read more
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Clomipramine, Depression and Parkinson's Disease

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
B.H. Boer, R.A.M. Erdmann, J. van der Pol, T. Schut
In this experiment we investigated the effect of the antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil) on twenty patients with Parkinson's disease. Ten of them had a relatively high and ten a relatively low 5-HIAA-concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid af...Read more
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Some critical considerations concerning the execution of imprisonment in specialized psychiatric clinics

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J. Schuler
Dutch law knows the measure detaining at the government's pleasure; meaning referral to a psychiatric clinic. The measure is designed for delinquents, who are only partly responsible and who are dangerous for public order. The measure is combined ...Read more
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Open Report

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
B.O. Boersma, J. Bunt
Two male nurses try to explain a meeting called 'Open Report', a working method as applied in the admission ward for men, named 'Conolly', of the mental hospital 'Brinkgreven', Deventer, The Netherlands. First a review is given of this way of tre...Read more
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Group Psychotherapy with Psoriasis Patients

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J. de Korte
Psoriasis is a chronical disease of the skin with an indistinct etiology and of frequent occurrence. Because of the human significance of the skin in our culture, psoriasis not only is a medical problem, but a psychococial problem as well. Patient...Read more
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A Socio-therapeutic Community for Adolescents with a Non-professional Staff

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
F. Dronkers
The author describes the functioning of a therapeutic community for border line-adolescents with a non-professional, largly post-adolescent staff. Separation-anxiety, depression, anti-social and 'acting out' behavior are prominent features of the...Read more
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Work and Sociotherapy

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
H. Smits
On 25 March 1976 the social ('sheltered') workshops 'Meer en Bosch' (at Heemstede) and 'Cruquiushoeve' (at Vijfhuizen) of the 'Society for Revalidation and Employment of Epileptics' were re-opened, on the occasion of which a symposium was held on ...Read more
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Anthropological thinking and psychiatry

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
I. E. I. M. van Eynde
Anthropological psychiatry is recognized by it's anti-Cartesianism, interest in specific human problems, thought stemming from the age old bond between man and world, man and fellow-man and reaction to a reduced human image. A fundamental agreeme...Read more
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Pipotiazine compared with chloropromazine

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J. Pols, M.M. Klaver
An account of a clinical double-blind research project with an adjustingand a evaluation-period wherein pipotiazine was compared with chloropromazine. 48 Patients suffering from a chronic hospitalization-syndrom took part in this project which wa...Read more
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What happens to short-stay psychiatric patients after discharge

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
G.H.M.M. ten Horn
Findings from a psychiatric case register indicate that one fourth of the short-stay-patients of 1974 did not contact any other psychiatric service during the year following discharge. Twothirds became out-patients and contacted the services 8,5 t...Read more
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Endocrine and metabolic aspects of anorexia nervosa

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
J.J. van Egmond
Last years the hypothalamus has got more attention as possibly being the place of pathogenesis in the case of anorexia nervosa. In this article a review is given of recent research for disturbances in hypothalamic-pituitary- gonadal, hypothalamic-...Read more
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Psychoneurobiological aspects of anorexia nervosa

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
M.J.A.J.M. Hoes
This analysis of the symptomatology of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, behavioral pharmacology and systemstheory terms, provides strong arguments for a fundamental Homeostasis disorder. The role of the monaminergic st...Read more
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Behavior therapy of anorexia nervosa

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
G. Bleyenberg, L. Delissen-van der Sloot
A survey is given of the contribution of the behavioral approach to the treatment of anorexia nervosa on the basis of the literature. Normalization of 'food-intake' is the first aim of the behavioral treatment. The operant conditioning principle i...Read more
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The third revolution

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
H.R. Kormos
This article discusses the development of the Community Mental Health Centers in the USA, especially with regard to problems that have emerged recently. The difficulties in outcome evaluation are described, stressing the political factors impingi...Read more
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Suicide and Psychiatric Treatment

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
L.A.J.M. van Eck, W. Knol-Schoonhoven, J. L. v. d. Lande
In this article a study is reported of 12 suicides committed by psychiatric in-patients during their treatment in the therapeutic communities Rijnland (for adults) and Amstelland (for adolescente) in the years 1972-1974, made by a group of collabo...Read more
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At the death of six suicidal patients: a critical obituary

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
W.J. Linschoten, J.N. Schreuder
In six short clinical vignettes, the authors describe two psychotic and four neurotic patients, who died after a severe suicidal attempt. Superficially there seemed to be a rather different therapeutic contact, the worse with the two psychotic pat...Read more
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Suicide in mental hospitals

ISSUE 1976/1
10 december 2008
A.C. de Graaf
In the years 1970-1974 a total of 421 suicides were committed during treatment in 39 mental hospitals of the Netherlands. It is seen that the amount of suicides in the mental hospitals increased. The number of suicides was on an average 243.1 per ...Read more
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