Issue

S.Z. Stapert

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background The consequences of mild traumatic brain injury have been well described and are considered to be benign symptoms. So far, little is known about the chronicity of the symptoms (post-concussion syndrome) and about the treatment o...

The quality of online suicide prevention in the Netherlands and Flanders in 2007

W. van Ballegooijen, B.A.J. van Spijker, A.J.F.M. Kerkhof

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The internet can provide valuable support for persons with suicidal tendencies. By means of the Google search engine we found and categorised 153 Dutch websites dealing with suicide. The websites relating to suicide prevention (n = 23) wer...

Case report

Parkinsonism during lithium use

T.R.W.M. Walrave, C. Bulens

Two patients with bipolar disorder had been treated for years with lithium without any complications but began to develop symptoms of rigidity and an altered gait, namely symptoms compatible with a diagnosis of Parkinsonism with an action tremor. ...

Ernstige psychiatrische stoornissen en agressie: slachtoffer en dader tegelijk

K. van Tuijl, M.M. Thunnissen

Het publieke imago van psychologen, psychotherapeuten en psychiaters

Movement disorders and psychoses

Psychiatric research of the ability to drive after driving under influence of alcohol: offender characteristic description and recommendations for prevention

I. Mekking-Pompen, D.P. Ravelli, H. Nijman

12 januari 2009

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background Driving under influence of alcohol is very likely to lead to traffic accidents. Nowadays, fewer people are driving under influence of alcohol, probably because of law enforcement and information campaigns: however, the number of ...

New research

Developmental trajectories of anxiety disorder symptoms in adolescents: A five-year prospective community study

W.W. Hale III, T.A. Klimstra, S.A.M. Wijsbroek, Q.A.W. Raaijmakers, P. Muris, W.H.J. Meeus

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background The relatively recent adoption of modern statistical analysis methods, such as latent growth modelling (lgm), makes it possible to study differences in the individual trajectories of development over time.
aim To examine prospec...

Review article

Dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents

H.S. Backer, A.L. Miller, L.M.C. van den Bosch

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background According to several randomised controlled trials (rct's) dialectical behaviour therapy (dbt) is effective in treating adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (bpd) who present with self-injurious and suicidal beha...

Review article

Electroconvulsive therapy for patients with intracranial aneurysms: a case study and literature review

E. van Herck, P. Sienaert, A. Hagon

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background Electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is an effective treatment for severe psychiatric disorders, such as mood disorders and schizophrenia. ect is a safe treatment, even in the presence of somatic comorbidity. There are no absolute co...

Case report

Acquired stuttering in a psychotic patient

M. Klein Hofmeijer-Sevink, Z.J. van Eijk, R. van der Zwaard

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A patient admitted to a psychiatric clinic because of a psychosis, developed a stutter. In this case report we review the literature in order to explain the differential diagnosis of stuttering acquired later in life. In the patient under ...

Case report

A patient with long during untreated psychosis

A. Neven, M.C. Klaassen

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A 30-year-old male was treated with antipsychotic medication because he had developed psychotic symptoms associated with schizophrenia. It became apparent that the symptoms had been present for many years, but, unfortunately, remained untre...

Keuze voor depot of orale medicatie bij personen met een psychotische stoornis

C.E. Versluis, A.J. van Oosten, J.D. Blom

Stigmatisering en gevoel van eigenwaarde bij patiënten met schizofrenie

Relational aspects of puerperal psychotic syndromes

M.J. van Trommel

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...

Security and stress in society

R.A. Pierloot

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...

E.C.T. discussion and the medical model/social model controversy in psychiatry

J. Hofman

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...

Training in psychiatry

H. Blijham

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...

Pursuit of thinness and urge to move. The significance of hyperactivity in anorexia nervosa (part I).

W. Vandereycken

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...

New living experiments for psychiatrie patients.

I. E. I. M. van Eynde

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...

The patient-staff meeting, ideology and practice.

J. Hartman

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...

Pursuit of thinness and urge to move. The significance of hyperactivity in anorexia nervosa (part 11).

W. Vandereycken

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...

The impact of the Freud-Jung correspondence on the history of ideas.

P.J. van der Leeuw

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 ...

Sociotherapy, mentally iii delinquents and a social learning treatment model.