Issue

J.R. Theunissen, P. Duurkoop, M. Kikkert, J. Peen, J. Dekker

Summary
background The move from less hospital care to more community-based care was expected to have positive results for long-term mental patients. It was believed that independent living would improve the quality of life and promote better socia...

New research

Short-term dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder

L.M.C. van den Bosch, R. Sinnaeve, M. Nijs

summary
background Outpatient dialectical behaviour therapy (dbt) reduces severe suicidal and self-injurious behaviour in patients with borderline personality disorder. The Jelgersma center for personality disorders has developed an intensive inpat...

Commentary

Dialectical behaviour therapy in inpatient treatment?

Current routine outcome monitoring undermines valid quality measurement

A. Hafkenscheid, J. van Os

Review article

Droperidol for the treatment of acutely agitated patients: still an option

L. Budiharto, J. De Fruyt

summary
background In Flemish emergency psychiatry droperidol is still an option for the treatment of agitation. However, its efficacy and safety are contested.
aim To find out whether the continuing use of droperidol to treat agitation is justifie...

Review article

Development of the multidisciplinary guideline on ‘Work and severe mental illness’

N. van Erp, H. Michon, D. van Duin, J. van Weeghel

summary
background In the Netherlands only a comparatively low percentage (18-19%) of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) are in paid employment. The problem consists not only of finding a job but also of holding it down.
aim To develop guidel...

Case report

Deep brain stimulation in a patient with ocd and the intensive pre- and post-operative psychiatric/psychotherapeutic follow-up. A case study

P. Corveleyn, B. Nuttin, L. Gabriëls

summary
Deep brain stimulation (dbs) is a neurosurgical intervention carried out in meticulously selected patients with a therapy-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd). We describe the pre- and post-operative psychiatric care given to a 51-...

Case report

Compulsory admission after threatened infanticide and suicide by a patient with a feigned psychosis

S. Dogan, E.J. Regeer, E.M.M. Mol, A.W. Braam

summary
A 30-year-old woman who simulated a psychosis and threatened to commit infanticide and suicide was forcibly admitted to an acute psychiatric unit under the Mental Health Act. She was discharged an hour later after confessing that she had fe...

Behandeling van therapieresistente bipolaire depressie

P. Sienaert

Invloed van perfectionisme op het verloop van het chronischevermoeidheidssyndroom

S. Kempke

Is de kans om voortijdig te overlijden groter bij ernstige dan bij subklinische depressie?

P. Cuijpers

Neuropsychiatrische bijwerkingen van varenicline

Vroegkinderlijke trauma’s en psychose: vergelijkende studie tussen mensen met een nietaffectieve psychotische stoornis, hun broers of zussen en controlepersonen

B. Hermans, M. Morrens

Abstract

Behandeling van depressie bij de ziekte van Parkinson: paroxetine, venlafaxine met vertraagde afgifte en placebo

A. Kaan, T. de Man, P.F.J. Schulte

Abstract

Metformine voor behandeling van amenorroe en gewichtstoename ten gevolge van antipsychoticagebruik

M.H. de Jong, A.R. van Gool

Letter to the editor

Reaction on ‘Questioning the mechanism behind slow breathing and heart coherence training’