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The heautoscopic hallucination

R. Th Schoenmaker

The case of a 77-year-old women with continual heautoscopic hallucinations 2 weeks after a cataract extraction was reported. After this operation occurred also a considerable loss of vision with a central scotoma because of a bilateral disciform d...

A psychophysiologic model of depression

J.A.F. Colaco Belmontes

1 — A model of affective disorders is presented based on two antagonizing subsystems in the CNS: the reward system (or euphoria system) and the punishment system (or dysphoria system), the former consisting of the septal area and medial forebrain ...

Mental patients and their professional helpers

A.C. van den Hout

In two mental hospitals sociological research was done about the specific character of social interactions between mental patients and their professional helpers.
The starting point of the research was the patient and his referent other among the ...

Masters & Johnson's Therapy: (anti-) Psychotherapy?

P. Nijs

The scientific research of 'Human Sexual Response' and the new sex therapies have to be considered as a new movement in the history of medicine and of psychotherapy. The 'conspiracy of silence' of classic medicine always excluded research of anato...

The prevention of hospitalisation

C.A.L. Hoogduin, R.J. van den Bosch

On the treatment of crises without admission into a psychiatric hospital. The determinants of the decision for psychiatrie hospitalisation are discussed. In the treatment of crises admission is not always a satisfactory procedure. Some strategies ...

Varieties of 'Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy'

E. Collumbien, R.A. Pierloot

An analysis is made of three forms of 'Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy', as worked out by D. H. Malan (Tavistock Clinic - London) who calls his form 'Brief Therapy', by P. E. Sifneos (Beth Israël Hospital - Boston) with 'Short-term anxiety-provok...

'The chronic patiënt', dealing with a treatment

J.A. Schipper

1 — The dysharmony between intellect (neo-cortex) and emotion (allo-cortex) should be recognized as a natural phase in the development of the human brain. Only in a restricted number of cases in this dysharmony based on psychiatric pathology.
2 — ...

Ethological perspectives in psychiatry

C.B. Bakker

Ethology is the cross-species study of behavior using an evolutionary perspective. It has developed 1) a methodology which emphasizes the observation of a species in its natural habitat (seriously neglected in psychiatry), 2) an organized body of ...

The beneficial effect of multiple vitamin administration on the behaviour of psychiatric patients

W.J.H. Dries, W.H.P. Schreurs, G. Buyze, A.J. Schakelaar

Pauling introduced the concept of orthomolecular psychiatry. According to this concept, the treatment of mental disease should benefit by optimalisation of the molecular environment of the mind. In this connection, the effect of multiple vitamin a...

Parental rights have their limitations where the interest of the child is at stake

J.J.L. ten Brink

A court-decision is presented where the natural parents were refused the custody of their 2-year old daugther and the foster-parents were appointed legal guardins. A distinction is made between general arguments, concerning psychological versus bi...

Motivation for therapy

F.G. Zitman

In literature 'motivation for therapy' has very different and often unclear meanings. Sometimes it seems to have no meaning at all. In practice however motivation has to be considered. To avoid ambiguities the author proposes to define motivation ...

Psychological stress in advanced medical care - renai dialysis -

J.C. Loos

To give support to many problems arising from departments of heartsurgery, dialysis and transplantation, and intensive care units, many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists assist to patients, with an often limited 'life-span'. Their being 'ho...

Lines of Development and Categories of Diagnosis; a Survey of the Literature.

R.C. Hoekstra

Several lines of development are outlined f.i. that of Freud, Piaget, Erikson and Mahler. The hypothesis is that a fixation at a specific moment in the line of development — by a psychotraumatic event or by a psychotoxic, micro-social milieu — giv...

Applying the optimality concept in neurological examination of children with behavioral problems and learning difficulties.

F.J.M Rouppe van der Voort

To categorize interpretation of examinationresults, it is often not possible to use the normality concept, because of the fact that not sufficient data are available, on which the normality concept is properly applicable. This for instance is the ...

Medical and psychiatric training of psychotherapists; cost benefit considerations

J.H. Thiel

Survey of advantages and disadvantages of medical and psychiatric training of future psychotherapists, such as seen from the viewpoints of:
- medical clinical training facilities;
- biological primacy of medical training;
- the problem of the dise...

Psychotherapy in a separate profession

A. van Dantzig

The author tries to show that psychotherapy merits the status of a separate academie profession.
This position is based on several lines of reasoning. Through the socioeconomic development since the French revolution the individuals has become, mo...

The psychotherapeutic attitude in clinical psychiatry. 'Staffpersonality' as a model of the multidisciplinary team

S. Scheffer, J.F. Tonino

The psychoanalytic personality model is presented as a model of the multidisciplinary psychiatric team. There is a striking analogy between the personality of the individual and that of the treatment team. Ego, superego and id characteristics can ...

Psychotherapy, a medical métier imperiled by current social developments

M.F. Chayes

The present article rebuts recently voiced assertions that the practise of psychotherapy is not a medical matter. Clarification is offered for the present confusion about what should and what should not be considered to constitute psychotherapy. I...

The education of psychiatrists

M.A.J. Romme, M.M.W. Richartz

The discussion in this article is oriented into the curriculum for the education of future psychiatrists.
In Holland the education takes four years, one year of which has to be spent in a neurological clinic.
This aspect should be altered because:...

Psychiatry in medicine

L. Eisenberg

In this 'Pieter Baan Lecture', presented at the Annual Meeting of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie, Lunteren, Holland, 1978, the author illustrates his (optimistic) viewpoint that as the medicine of the future is forged out of the contr...

Borderline, an operational clinical concept?

G.E. Schaap

The borderline syndrome has often been discuseed in the literature, especially by psychoanalysts. In this paper an attempt is made to formulate the meaning of the concept 'borderline'. The diagnosis 'borderline' may well differ from one country to...

The first Psychiatrie Revolution in the Netherlands: A revolution that nobody wanted.

J.M.W. Binneveld, M.J. van Lieburg

In the first part of this article a description is given of the lunacy reform in the Netherlands in the first half of the nineteenth century. Special attention is given to lunacy law, institutional care and psychiatry.
In the second part an analysi...

An epidemic of selfmutilation

D.W. Oppedijk

In a pavilion for long term psychiatric therapy, we saw an epidemie of selfmutilations in a group of female psychopaths.
Concentration of them on the closed ward, resulted in a deterioration of the ward's atmosphere. In this epidemie played both i...

Can psychosocial factors cause psychiatrie disorders?