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Ervaringen met een partner-relatie-therapie 'on analytic lines' bij een anorexie patiënt een haar echtgenoot

J. Beeren

J. Beeren: Partner-relationship therapy on analytic lines: a case study of an anorexia patient and her husband.
As a result of a clinical case study of a partner-relationship therapy 'on analytic Boes' of a patiënt suffering from anorexia nervosa,...

Idee en praktijk van de MSO-benadering in de extramurale epilepsiebestrijding

H. Smits, H.S.M. Bakker

H. S. M. Bakker and H. Smits: Idea and practice of the MSO-approach in the extramurae light against epilepsy.
As indicated bij the title this article deals with the ideas about the MSO approach as well as the application in practice.
After a furth...

De medische en psychologische beoordeling van Hitler

A. Stam

A. Stam: Medical and psychological judgments on Hitler. A bibliographical survey with historica! notes.
A very heterogeneous collection of psychodiagnostic endeavours is reviewed. The author presents these speculative publications mainly chronolog...

Een afschattingsmethode rond zelfdoding; niet zelfdodings-contract

L.G. Portier

L. G. Portier: A method of evaluating suicidal risks; the non-suicide contract
In this article I describe the practical use of a method of evaluating the suicidal risk with clients where acute suicidal behaviour is pregnant and where the therapist...

Neuropeptiden en hun potentiële klinische betekenis

W.M.A. Verhoeven, J.M. van Ree

W. M. A. Verhoeven and J. M. van Ree: The putative clinical implications of neuropeptides
Hormones from the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary are essential for the homeostasis of the organism. In addition, fragments of these hormones w...

Misidentificatie

F. de Jonghe, O. Markx

F. de Jonghe and 0. Markx: Misidentification
Misidentification is defined as the fautly identification of another person.
A distinction is made between non-pathological misidentifications and normal identification. The pathological misidentificati...

Het verschijnsel van Capgras

O. Markx, F. de Jonghe

F. J. de Jonghe and 0. Markx: The Capgras phenomenon or 'illusion des sosies'
The case of a 37-years old man displaying the Capgras-phenomenon is reported. This phenomenon is considered as a pathological form of negative misidentification, not bas...

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Demotivatie en schijnmotivatie

J. Hofman

J. Hofman: Deniotivation and Pseudo-motivation.
The question is posed why so much attention is paid to motivation in psychiatry.
As reasons are stressed the dependency on the motivation of the patient, the possibility that demotivation is a sympto...

Niet-gemotiveerd voor onze hulp?

H.R. Kraus

H. R. Kraus: Not motivated for our help.
The author proposes to define the nonmotivated patient as being not motivated for the help as offered.
By changing the offer non-motivation could be eliminated. A clear distinction between the echelons of h...

Suïcide: is helpen gerechtvaardigd?

P. J. Stolk

P. J. Stolk: Suicide: is it justified to help?
Nowadays it sometimes is claimed that man has a right to suicide. Psychiatrie workers sometimes seem to doubt if they are obliged to help in suicidal situations.
Partly as a result of this the risk of...

Suïcidaliteit, onvrijwillige opname en motivatie

F. Bloemsma

F. Bloemsma: Suicidality, forced admission and motivation.
Legally working with forced admission and, therefore, with unmotivated patients is bot the top of an iceberg, on which psychiatric helpers are on slippery grounds with regard to human freed...

Wat is erger: ten onrechte opnemen of ten onrechte niet opnemen?

R.E. Offerhaus

R. E. Offerhaus: The dilemma in hospitalisation: risking too many intakes or a calamity at home.
In this article a discussion is held about the question: is unjustified hospitalisation in a psychiatric center a greater wrong compared with a failur...

Wat is erger: ten onrechte opnemen of ten onrechte niet opnemen?