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Editorial

Mental illness and stigma

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
C.F.A. Milders
New research

Changes in crisisintervention and emergency psychiatry, Amsterdam emergency consultations in 1983 and 2005

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
L.F.M. van der Post, J.J.M. Dekker, J.F.J. Jonkers, A.T.F. Beekman, C.L. Mulder, L. de Haan, W.G. Mulder, R.A. Schoevers

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background Since 1992 the Netherlands has seen a striking increase in the number of compulsory admissions. There is a danger that coercion will become the dominant form of treatment in the Amsterdam clinics.
aim To build up a picture of th...

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Essay

Explaining symptoms: body-object and body-subject

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
B.C. ter Meulen, T.C.A.M. Woerkom

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background Medically unexplained somatic symptoms present a real challenge to modern medicine. They occur frequently and are often chronic.
aim To discuss the physician's approach to these symptoms.
method We focus on the views of the huma...

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Review article

An algorithm for psychotropics for the mentally handicapped: psychiatric diagnosis in three stages

ISSUE 2009/3
4 maart 2009
W.M.A. Verhoeven, S. Tuinier †, J.I.M. Egger

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background Psychiatric treatment of mentally handicapped patients is still in its infancy because these patients are diagnosed by means of inadequate dsm vignettes that were not developed for such a homogeneous group and that do not have t...

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Review article

Assessment and management of the risk for violence. An overview of the literature

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
A.J. Tholen

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background In general psychiatry the risk of violence has to be assessed regularly, for instance in cases where civil commitment is under consideration.
aim This article gives an overview of the actuarial instruments for risk assessment, d...

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Short report

Are patients in randomised controlled trials of psychotherapy representative for clinical practice?

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
K. Vanwezer, G. Pieters

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background In the debate about evidence-based psychotherapy it is often assumed that randomised controlled trials (rct's) have a limited generalisability. Among the reasons for this assumption are the strict exclusion criteria which rule o...

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Case report

The Charles Bonnet syndrome and dementia

ISSUE 2009/3
19 maart 2009
E. De Baerdemaeker, F. Bouckaert, H. D'haenen †

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An 83-year-old visually impaired woman was admitted to the hospital because of complex visual hallucinations. Her symptoms were indicative of the Charles Bonnet syndrome (cbs). On the basis of this case we explore the relationship between ...

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Abstract

Het placebo-effect: nep of echt?

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
A. Ruissen
Abstract

Basale cortisolwaarden bij patiënten met posttraumatische stressstoornis

ISSUE 2009/3
3 maart 2009
C.S. de Kloet