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The use of the Diagnostic Interview Schema (DIS) in the assessment of psychopathology treated alcohol- and drugaddicts

ISSUE 1986/7

J. van Limbeek, H.F.A. Schalken, P.J. Geerlings, L. Wouters, P.A. de Groot, G. Sijlbing, W. Beelen

This article presents evidence from literature about the prevalence of psychopathology among treated drugaddicts. The importance of these psychopathology for the prediction of therapy-outcome is indicated. The convergent validity of the Dutch vers...

Developments in psychiatric classification. Proposal for a prototypical core-classificati

ISSUE 1986/7

A. de Jong, W. van den Brink

In the last decades criticism on existing psychiatric classifications has steadily grown. From a theoretical point of view three major objections were raised. Inter-rater reliability is too low, patients within diagnostic classes are heterogeneous...

Object constancy and the treatment of children with conduct disorders

W. Matthys

The children described in this study were residentially treated for their persistent conduct disorders. Their history is characterized by repetitive separations from their primary caretakers who were emotionally insufficiently available to them du...

Sociotherapy and psychotherapy in psychiatric day or partial hospitalization according to the principles of continuity of care

P.J. Geerlings, J. de Klerk-Roscam Abbing

A new design of psychiatric day or partial hospitalization treatment is described in this article, as the Dutch government is insisting on the reinforcement and enlargement of psychiatric day and partial hospitalization.

This design of psychia...

Thematic analysis of literary works from a psychoanalytic point of view

R.A. Pierloot

Psychoanalytic thematic analysis of literary works is based on the assumption that, in the content of these works, repressed infantile fantasy material can be detected. Freud and some of his disciples analyzed a number of works, looking mostly for...

The psychiatric hospital, a psychological birth-clinic

R.M. Bruijel

Life implicates loss. The ability to loose is related to the degree in which the problems of the separation-individuation phase in early childhood are worked through.

This article reports observations of the way unresolved separation-individua...

Illness, insight and illness behaviour in psychiatry

P.P.G. Hodiamont, P.G.M. Peer, P.H.J.M. Heyendael

This article describes the theoretical empirical relations between mental illness, insight and behaviour.

After an outline of these concepts and their intertwining theoretical backgrounds, the results (weighted to represent the general populat...

Negative symptoms and schizophrenia; a review of research-literature

T. Kuipers, N. Ruigewaard, W. van Tilburg

In the context of a renewed interest in the subject of negative symptoms and schizophrenia recent research-literature is reviewed. Historical notes and findings concerning the correlates of negative symptoms are presented. It is concluded that neg...

Three interpretations of mechanisms of defense

J. van Heerden

Psychologists readily say that people can be involved in actions of unconscious defense in order to protect themselves against the threat of ambiguous thoughts and wishes. It is still not clear, however, to what extent one can say that in such cas...

Illness or parapsychologic phenomenon?

J.J.C. Marlet

In the light of the casuistry an idea is given of what happens when psychopathology and parapsychology meet. These practical experiences cause the author to point out that a general knowledge of parapsychology is important for doctors and psycholo...

The history of psychoanalysis in Holland: a hermeneutical and a rhetorical reading

L. Aerts

Referring to two volumes concerning the history of psychoanalysis in Holland published recently the relation is being described between the history and the sociology of science within a framework of hermeneutics. Through his hermeneutical focus on...

The relationship between chronic pain and depression II: therapeutic aspects

B. van Houdenhove, P.M.F.J.J. Knapen

In part II of this article, the therapeutic value of antidepressants in chronic pain is systematically and critically discussed. First, a review is given of the clinical studies in this field. Secondly, some controversial topics (indications, prod...

The follow-up project psychotherapeutic communities (6): do clients meet the expectations of experts?

J.E.A. Wagenborg

In this article attention is paid to normative aspects in the evaluation of effects of clinical psychotherapy. In addition to the necessity of selecting convincing criteria, an urgent need is felt for plausible norms that can help to evaluate ther...

The use of CT-scanning in psychiatric illness; a retrospective study of 226 patients

A. Hovestadt, T.C.A.M. Woerkom, R.E.M. Hekster

A retrospective study was made of 226 psychiatric patients. Only 74 patients (33%) did not show abnormalities on the CT-scan. The most observed CT-scan abnormality was cerebral atrophy (65%). Atrophy was observed especially in schizophrenia, demen...

Psychotraumatic effects of reanimation

H.B. Pomerantz

Using 5 cases as illustration, 2 with and 3 without the use of tracheotomy, the psychotraumatic effects of reanimation are discussed. The group of asthma patients who undergo this form of emergency treatment appear to suffer afterwards from a post...

Psychiatric expertise in disability insurance cases

M. Kabela

A questionnaire was sent to thirty-odd psychiatrists concerning their opinion on psychiatric reports on disability insurance. In this article the results are discussed as well as some shortcommings of the psychiatric report. Furthermore, some crit...

The Follow-up project Psychotherapeutic Communities (5): The predictability of readmission; an investigation into the validity of the `NVL'

G.W. Tremonti, R.F. Koning

The Follow-up project Psychotherapeutic Communities bears heavily on a newly constructed self report instrument - namely the `Nieuwkoopse Vragenlijst' (NVL). That is why a thorough investigation into the validity of the self-report statements had ...

The relationship between chronic pain and depression (I): Clinical, psychodynamic, learning-theoretical and biological aspects

B. van Houdenhove

In Part I of this article, the complex relationship between chronic pain and depression is studied from different theoretical points of view. First, some problems concerning the prevalence and the diagnosis of the co-existent depression are discus...

Palm Wine in New Vessels

ISSUE 1986/1

J.T.V.M. de Jong

The Senegalese healing ritual the Ndöp, is described and analysed from an anthropological, a psychoanalytic, and an interactional perspective. The author indicates some therapeutic elements occurring both in the Ndöp and in modern psychotherapy. T...

Foulds Personal Illness Model. A replication study

ISSUE 1986/1

P. Dingemans, A. de Jong, J.H. Dijkhuis, H. van Engeland

This research sought to uncover the extent to which Foulds Personal Illness Model would be able to organize psychiatric diagnostic data in a meaningful way. At the same time it was tried to replicate earlier research findings in a Dutch psychiatri...

`Satistiatry', nosology and structure: the same question?

ISSUE 1986/1