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Psychopathy as diagnosis; wrongly out of use?

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
A. Schadé, G.F. Koerselman

The diagnosis `psychopathy' formerly included many psychiatric syndromes which nowadays would be classified as personality disorders. After the nineteen forties, Cleckly, in his standard work `The mask of Sanity' made an pionering effort to carefu...

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Cultural and religious aspects of grief and trauma after a plane crash in the Netherlands

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
J.T.V.M. de Jong, M.M. van Schaik

After a plane crash in Amsterdam in 1992, 43 persons were killed and 400 households were evacuated. Most victims involved in the crash of the cargo plane were immigrants. This article describes the role of christianity, the islam and the afroameri...

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Psychoanalytical Supportive Psychotherapy

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
R.C. van der Mast, J.M.J. Smorenburg, F. de Jonghe

In this article Psychoanalytical Supportive Psychotherapy (PSP) is described as a specific psychotherapeutic method based on the psychoanalytic theory. The psychoanalytical psychotherapies can be described on the basis of a continuum with on the o...

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Guidelines in psychiatry: a necessary good?

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
J.A. Swinkels

The development of guidelines for clinical practice as well as the objections against it are discussed. The problems facing the implementation of guidelines are in part of a methodological nature; in part they reflect adverse developments in socie...

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Partial hospitalization of patients newly admitted to open inpatient wards of general hospitals

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
N.W. Poelijoe, A.H. Schene, B. van Wijngaarden, B.P.R. Gersons

Before this study, a randomized controlled trial in a Dutch university psychiatric ward showed that 33% of all admitted patients were suited for day-treatment soon after admission. It was also demonstrated that, for this patiens, full-time and day...

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The association between smoking and schizophrenia

ISSUE 1994/4
17 maart 2004
H.L.I. Nijman, H.L.G.J. Merckelbach, D.P. Ravelli

Several studies indicate that schizophrenic patients smoke more than normal subjects or non-schizophrenic psychiatric patients. It has been suggested that the excessive smoking behaviour of the schizophrenic patient may be connected with stress, h...

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