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25 years of forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands, a concise review

B.C.M. Raes

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In the past 25 years of forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands, there have been improvements in the quality of information made available for pre-trial assessments, changes in the psychopathological characteristics of the patient populatio...

A psychosis proneness-persistence-impairment model of psychotic disorders

J. van Os, R. Verkooyen, M. Hendriks, C. Henquet, M. Bak, M. Marcelis, PH. Delespaul, L. Krabbendam, I. Myin-Germeys

5 december 2008

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There is evidence that the normally transitory developmental expression of psychosis (psychosisproneness) may first of all become abnormally persistent (persistence) and later on become clinically relevant (impairment), depending on the ...

Eating disorders; 25 years of research and treatment

H.W. Hoek, W. Vandereycken

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As a result of the publication of dsm-iii(-r) bulimia nervosa was recognised as a separate eating disorder, distinct from anorexia nervosa. Eating disorders occur mainly in young females. The incidence of anorexia nervosa in Dutch females ...

Addiction and care for addicts

W. van den Brink, G.M. Schippers

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In the course of the last 50 years our knowledge about the epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of addiction has increased dramatically. Since the 1980s treatment providers have had at their disposal effective p...

Fifty years of psychiatry at the interface between psyche and soma: a swot analysis

B. van Houdenhove, P. Luyten

summary During the past 50 years the border area between psychiatry and somatic medicine has undergone remarkable changes. Theories have become better-founded, both psychologically and neurobiologically, research has become more sophisticated, and...

25 years antipsychotics: back to the future?

D. Denys, L. de Haan

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The introduction of antipsychotics 50 years ago caused a revolution in psychiatry and deinstitutionalised psychotic patients on a massive scale. However, the new atypical antipsychotics introduced in the last 25 years have done very little...

Fifty years of pharmacotherapy of mood disorders: have the expectations been fulfilled?

W.A. Nolen

summary Pharmacotherapy for mood disorders has existed for more that 50 years. Many kinds of drugs are registered for the treatment of depression or bipolar disorder; these include 20 antidepressants, lithium, various anticonvulsants and antipsych...

Psychoanalysis and cognitive behaviour therapy: in the past and in the future

M. Hebbrecht, G. Pieters

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Some recent developments in psychoanalysis and cognitive behaviour therapy are reviewed. This is followed by some thoughts and comments on the directions in which these two disciplines are likely to develop in the future.

Renewed interest in neuropsychiatry within child and adolescent psychiatry

F. Boer

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Child and adolescent psychiatry has existed as a subspecialism since the 1920s. In the early days its practitioners regarded observation as their main source of knowledge. In the period after 1970 the anti-psychiatric movement gained moment...

Old age psychiatry in the Netherlands

M.L. Stek, P. Eikelenboom, A.T.F. Beekman

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In recent years there have been significant developments in psychiatry for the elderly in the Netherlands. Epidemiological research has widened its scope, collaborating with other disciplines and thereby creating a range of new perspective...