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Medical and psychiatric training of psychotherapists; cost benefit considerations

J.H. Thiel

Survey of advantages and disadvantages of medical and psychiatric training of future psychotherapists, such as seen from the viewpoints of:
- medical clinical training facilities;
- biological primacy of medical training;
- the problem of the dise...

Psychotherapy in a separate profession

A. van Dantzig

The author tries to show that psychotherapy merits the status of a separate academie profession.
This position is based on several lines of reasoning. Through the socioeconomic development since the French revolution the individuals has become, mo...

The psychotherapeutic attitude in clinical psychiatry. 'Staffpersonality' as a model of the multidisciplinary team

S. Scheffer, J.F. Tonino

The psychoanalytic personality model is presented as a model of the multidisciplinary psychiatric team. There is a striking analogy between the personality of the individual and that of the treatment team. Ego, superego and id characteristics can ...

Psychotherapy, a medical métier imperiled by current social developments

M.F. Chayes

The present article rebuts recently voiced assertions that the practise of psychotherapy is not a medical matter. Clarification is offered for the present confusion about what should and what should not be considered to constitute psychotherapy. I...

The education of psychiatrists

M.A.J. Romme, M.M.W. Richartz

The discussion in this article is oriented into the curriculum for the education of future psychiatrists.
In Holland the education takes four years, one year of which has to be spent in a neurological clinic.
This aspect should be altered because:...

Psychiatry in medicine

L. Eisenberg

In this 'Pieter Baan Lecture', presented at the Annual Meeting of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie, Lunteren, Holland, 1978, the author illustrates his (optimistic) viewpoint that as the medicine of the future is forged out of the contr...

Borderline, an operational clinical concept?

G.E. Schaap

The borderline syndrome has often been discuseed in the literature, especially by psychoanalysts. In this paper an attempt is made to formulate the meaning of the concept 'borderline'. The diagnosis 'borderline' may well differ from one country to...

The first Psychiatrie Revolution in the Netherlands: A revolution that nobody wanted.

J.M.W. Binneveld, M.J. van Lieburg

In the first part of this article a description is given of the lunacy reform in the Netherlands in the first half of the nineteenth century. Special attention is given to lunacy law, institutional care and psychiatry.
In the second part an analysi...

An epidemic of selfmutilation

D.W. Oppedijk

In a pavilion for long term psychiatric therapy, we saw an epidemie of selfmutilations in a group of female psychopaths.
Concentration of them on the closed ward, resulted in a deterioration of the ward's atmosphere. In this epidemie played both i...

Can psychosocial factors cause psychiatrie disorders?

H.M. van Praag

It is a widely accepted view today that psychosocial factors can cause psychiatrie disorders. However, this view has as yet no firm foundation of verifiable facts. This paper outlines some research strategies which can provide data in favour of or...

Psychiatrie disturbances as primary symptoms of braintumours

W.F. van Oudenaarden

Three case-histories are presented to document psychiatrie disturbances as primary symptoms of braintumours. Factors involved in the delaying of the correct diagnosis are discussed.

Emotional Disturbances in Mentally Retarded Children

A. Dosen, J. Mulder

A research project has been done with 140 retarded children admitted to an observation clinic for children with developmental disturbances. All the children were defined as mentally retarded in the applications for admission to the clinic.
By eval...

The psychiatrie vicissitudes of an admission-cohort in 1974.

G.H.M.M. ten Horn, R. Giel

A complete cohort of patients, admitted from an urban municipality to the intramural psychiatrie services in the area during the first half of 1974, is followed for altogether 2 years. The study reveals two types of chronicity of patients, either ...

De nieuwe chronische patiënten-populatie Mededeling uit het centrale patiënten-register (10)

R. Giel, S. Dijk, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

Understanding the concepts of childhood psychosis

H. Baartman

Scientific concepts are influenced by the questions cne is asking. The classification concepts in psychiatry are descriptive concepts. Questions about the meaning of behaviour in a therapeutic situation need 'imperative' concepts which are a direc...

Social consequences of mental hospital admission

A.C. van den Hout

Within the perspective of the mental patient as a person following a career (Goffman), a number of transition points can be identified. These transition points are simultaneously the end of one career phase and the beginning of another phase in th...

Self-control approaches to alcoholism

J. Lehembre

Self-control is necessary for success in the treatment of alcoholism. Self control only begins after uttering of performance promises, commitments or intention statements.
Shame (to be an alcoholist) makes the 'promise' probably.
Techniques of sel...

The treatment of 99 out-patients with 'therapy-resistent' depression with L-5-hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP) combined with Car bidopa. An open study

L.J. van Hiele, H.J.W. ten Wolde, P. Gjaltema-Bosch

The startingpoint is the evidente for relationship between tentral 5-HT and the occurence of certain types of depressions. Symptomatology, etiology and course are described. The average duration of the illness of the patients was about nine years ...

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