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Establishment of a mother-and-baby-unit in the psychiatrie ward of the Rotterdam Academie Hospital has made it much easier to provide effective management for patients suffering from puerperal psychosis. This provided also new possibilities to stu...

Society can be considered as a covering structure, determining the roles of people according to their place in this structure. Culture is the whole of values and norms, regulating the interactions of indivduals in a given society.
Society and cult...

This article is a contribution to the discussion on the permissibility of E.C.T. It is based on the supposition that the E.C.T. controversy is part of the continued conflictmedical model/social model in psychiatry, making the whole discussion at l...

There is given a rough draft of a system of training in psychiatry, in which the accent is not laid on the substantial-programatic aspects, but in which the doctor-in-training and his personal encounter with the patients are the tentral points. Se...

The first clinical descriptions of anorexia nervosa, by Gull and Lasègue, already paid special attention to the striking motorial restlessness and physical hyperactivity which is astonishing in respect of the sometimes dramatic emaciation of these...

In spite of all positive developments the psychiatrie hospitals stay on the level of treatment, living-climate, architecture and organisation-structure grafted on the 'hospital-model'. Recently the intermural living of patients comes up to discuss...

Patient-staff meetings, also known as community meetings or ward meetings, are a common feature in modern psychiatry though not without their problems and controversies. An attempt to explain the apparent ambivalency of professionals toward this m...

In this part the author discussen the different explanations and reflections about hyperactivity in anorexia nervosa. Although this aspect has been neglected in several studies, one has tried to elucidate this phenomenon from differing theoretical...

In the introduction the importante of this correspondence as a historical document is described. Retrospectively, we see 1 the origin and the beginning of the psychoanalytical movement; in other words the development of psychoanalysis as a social ...

In this article an outline is given of the implications for a sociotherapeutic approach, theoretically based on principles of a learning theory, in an institutional setting treating mentally ill deliquents. The sociotherapist is described as a cot...

The case of a 77-year-old women with continual heautoscopic hallucinations 2 weeks after a cataract extraction was reported. After this operation occurred also a considerable loss of vision with a central scotoma because of a bilateral disciform d...

1 — A model of affective disorders is presented based on two antagonizing subsystems in the CNS: the reward system (or euphoria system) and the punishment system (or dysphoria system), the former consisting of the septal area and medial forebrain ...

In two mental hospitals sociological research was done about the specific character of social interactions between mental patients and their professional helpers.
The starting point of the research was the patient and his referent other among the ...

The scientific research of 'Human Sexual Response' and the new sex therapies have to be considered as a new movement in the history of medicine and of psychotherapy. The 'conspiracy of silence' of classic medicine always excluded research of anato...

On the treatment of crises without admission into a psychiatric hospital. The determinants of the decision for psychiatrie hospitalisation are discussed. In the treatment of crises admission is not always a satisfactory procedure. Some strategies ...

An analysis is made of three forms of 'Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy', as worked out by D. H. Malan (Tavistock Clinic - London) who calls his form 'Brief Therapy', by P. E. Sifneos (Beth Israël Hospital - Boston) with 'Short-term anxiety-provok...

1 — The dysharmony between intellect (neo-cortex) and emotion (allo-cortex) should be recognized as a natural phase in the development of the human brain. Only in a restricted number of cases in this dysharmony based on psychiatric pathology.
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Ethology is the cross-species study of behavior using an evolutionary perspective. It has developed 1) a methodology which emphasizes the observation of a species in its natural habitat (seriously neglected in psychiatry), 2) an organized body of ...

Pauling introduced the concept of orthomolecular psychiatry. According to this concept, the treatment of mental disease should benefit by optimalisation of the molecular environment of the mind. In this connection, the effect of multiple vitamin a...

A court-decision is presented where the natural parents were refused the custody of their 2-year old daugther and the foster-parents were appointed legal guardins. A distinction is made between general arguments, concerning psychological versus bi...

In literature 'motivation for therapy' has very different and often unclear meanings. Sometimes it seems to have no meaning at all. In practice however motivation has to be considered. To avoid ambiguities the author proposes to define motivation ...

To give support to many problems arising from departments of heartsurgery, dialysis and transplantation, and intensive care units, many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists assist to patients, with an often limited 'life-span'. Their being 'ho...

Several lines of development are outlined f.i. that of Freud, Piaget, Erikson and Mahler. The hypothesis is that a fixation at a specific moment in the line of development — by a psychotraumatic event or by a psychotoxic, micro-social milieu — giv...

To categorize interpretation of examinationresults, it is often not possible to use the normality concept, because of the fact that not sufficient data are available, on which the normality concept is properly applicable. This for instance is the ...