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Chronicity due to functional psychosis

ISSUE 1984/6

D. Wiersma, R. Giel, A. de Jong, C.J. Slooff

A cohort of 83 patients with a first life time episode of a functional non-affective psychosis was followed-up for a period of three years since the onset of the illness. Chronicity of this type of mental disorder has been characterised in various...

On the meaning of inanimate objects in early development

ISSUE 1984/6

J.M.H. Hagendoorn

The transitional object plays an important role in the separation from the mother. The sensations in the skin, a boundary between 'me' and 'not-me' are other factors in the separationprocess from the environment and, like the transitional object, ...

ICD-9-CM coding in psychiatry

ISSUE 1984/6

P. Dingemans, C. Hooijer, J. Dutilh

The inter-rater reliability of the ICD-9-CM coding system was assessed in two university psychiatrie clinics, using two methods (discharge diagnoses only versus standardized discharge summary letters), and 3 groups of raters (4 residents, 4 superv...

Life Event-research and positivistic misunderstanding

G.F. Koerselman

It is shown that the fourth axis of DSM-III is heir to the so-called Life Eventresearch, in which an attempt is made to produce objective quantifications of life stress. Objectively weighed life stress is held responsible for causing psychiatrie d...

Personality-factors and Marital Satisfaction of Couples in Psychotherapy

M. Nevejan, F. Zwart

Our hypothesis, based on the practice of couple-psychotherapy and on the study of literature, was that couples, consulting a psychotherapist because of relationship-problems (so called patient-couples) differ from non-patient-couples in their patt...

The judge on euthanasia

J.H.S. van Herten

Discussed are three judicial sentences (from 1952, 1973 and 1983) in which a doctor was tried for euthanasia. In two of the three cases it concerned a doctor who was also very closely related to the patient. In the sentences hardly any attention h...

Childpsychiatric epidemiology: concepts and methods, a critical analysis

F.C. Verhulst

Although prevalence estimates on some individual childpsychiatric symptoms exist, no estimates of overall psychiatrie functioning of children are available for the Dutch population. This fact reflects the lack of basic childpsychiatric epidemiolog...

Taal, lichamelijkheid en affect in de schizofrenie (II)

Integratiestoornissen bij kinderen

De dexamethasone belastingstest in de psychiatrische praktijk: Een exploratief onderzoek

De organisatie van een token economy

Ontogenese en pathogenese

Over dehospitalisatie door middel van schaalverkleining en de gevolgen voor teams

ISSUE 1982/10

J. Anten, A. Heijdens

Token economy III: interactie tussen bewoners en medewerkers op afdelingen voor lang verblijf

Psychiatrische bepaling van de arbeids(on)geschiktheid bij Marokkaanse werknemers in Nederland

Depressies en doorwaakte nachten

A.C. Lit

A. C. Lit: The practice of sleep-deprivation as a treatment of vital depressions
In an increasing number of papers sleep-deprivation is reported to be an effective treatment of endogenous (vital) depressions. Some hospitals however hesitate to int...

Aanwijzingen voor de behandeling van depressie vanuit de gedragstherapie en de cognitieve therapieën

F. Depestele

F. Depestele: Implications of the behavioral and cognitive therapeutic viewpoints for the treatment of depression. A review of the literature.
The first part of the paper is a review — with the emphasis on the search for practical guidelines for t...

Bedenkingen bij de diagnose 'gemaskeerde depressie' en 'depressieve equivalenten'

Geheugenstoornissen bij elektroshocktherapie

G. Pijnse van der Aa

G. Pijnse van der Aa: Memory-disturbances and electroshock therapy.
This article is an attempt to summarize the literature on memory-disturbances in connection to electroshock therapy. It appears that both anterograde and reterograde amnesia do oc...

De ideologie in de psychiatrie

D.C. van Strien

D. C. van Strien: Ideology in psychiatry.
Several articles concerning 'residency in psychiatry' have been published in this journal this last year. The author, himself a resident, reviews these articles. At the same time, he contrasts them with hi...

Crisistheorie en psychiatrische hulpverleningop een Eerste Hulp-post

F. Elsenburg

Fons Elsenburg: Crisistheory and Psychiatric Consultation in a University Hospital Emergency Room
The concept of the 'precipitating event' as used in crisistheory is outlined.
This concept formed the starting point for a sociological research that...

Reacties van recruten t.a.v. hun in-observatiestelling in een neuro-psychiatrische instelling

W. Aerts, L. Lagrou

W. Aerts and L. Lagrou: Impact on military recruits of an observation sojourn in a psychiatrie hospital of the army
All Belgian males have to participate in a program of medical and psychological examinations at the Recruiting- and Selection Cente...

Het psychiatrisch centrum: een utopie?

S. de Jong

S. de Jong Psychiatric Centre: A Utopia?
This article presents the following presupposition: 'In the structure itself of the Mental Health organisation in the Netherlands a "momentum" is missing, that could have been used as a feedback mechanism i...

Een neuropsychologische procedure voor dementie-onderzoek