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Psychiatrie evaluation of patients with undiagnosed somatic complaints

H.G.M. Rooymans

Aim of this study was to gain insight into the argumentation of the psychiatrist in accepting (or rejecting) a possible psychological origin of undiagnosed somatic complaints. The study was based on the psychiatric records of 223 somatic in-patien...

Eros and Culture

F. van Hest

The ancient Greek named the cosmic strength to promote the harmonious grow, unification, beauty and happiness, Eros. He was the child of Necessity and Inventiveness. He was operating on the contrary of death — Thanatos — and even won the victory, ...

The Asklepieion at Pergamon

H. Pomerantz

The Asclepieion at Pergamon was a famous 'therapeutic community' in the antiquity, directed on man in his totality: attention given to body culture, bathing, music, theatre and 'psychotherapy'.
This milieu became recognized by its 'erotic' charact...

Video assisted examination in psychiatry of medical students

H. Pomerantz, J. Stijlen

Ninety students who failed to pass a multiple choice test in psychiatry were given an oral re-test in the form of a video assisted examination. The oral examination consisted of a discussion of the contents of a taped interview with a patient from...

Summaries

J. Stijlen, H. Pomerantz, I. E. I. M. van Eynde, F. van Hest, H.G.M. Rooymans

The current and future training of psychiatrists (in the Netherlands)

D. Jacobs

The author — in a personal view — gives his opinion about the training of psychiatrists in the Netherlands. He states that there is some variety in the contents of the training in different centres. He also concludes that there is not a common agr...

The Psychology in evolving psychiatry

A. Vergote

Psychiatrists have contributed more than academic psychologists to psychological understanding. However, the irreducible specificity of psychic causality is often not recognized by physicians, who are neither systematically trained to understand n...

Developmental phases of a psychiatric treatment team

A.Y. Berkouwer

An integral part of the development of a therapeutic community is the careful consideration by staff members of the patients' responses to them. Such responses frequently reflect real discord within the group, that is to say that complaints and cr...

Concern for children of hospitalized mothers

N. Meyers

Separation from their parents can be a traumatic experience for young children. This will especially be so if this separation is caused by their mother staying in a mental hospital.
On inquiry of the staff of some mental hospitals, and mental-heal...

Summaries

N. Meyers, A.Y. Berkouwer, A. Vergote, D. Jacobs

'Consultation-liaison psychiatry'

J. Lansen

Consultation-liaison psychiatry is a branch of the profession which is in rapid development. Generally the question is being raised, whether the consultation- liaison activities should be limited to the strictly medical world, compared to the wide...

Is Social Psychiatric Service a purely professional job?

M.A. Bremer-Schulte

Could the enlargement of the range of the Social Psychiatrie Service (S.P.D.) via integrated co-operation from professional and nonprofessional helpers (among them socalled 'cohelpers', institutional as well as indigenous ones), be esteemed as a s...

Classification of Child Psychiatric Disorders

H.M.J.A. Gerritzen

Classification, as a means of ordering information and grouping phenomena, is basic to all forms of scientific enquiry. There is a basic difference between classification and diagnosis of child psychiatric disorders. Untill 1969 no acceptable clas...

Some aspects of training in psychiatry in Holland

6 december 2008

J. Pols

There is much confusion about the professional identity of the psychiatrist; there is no consensus about the knowledge, expertness and skills a psychiatrist ought to have, nor is there a general agreement as regards the basic attitude and professi...

Summaries

J. Pols, H.M.J.A. Gerritzen, M.A. Bremer-Schulte, J. Lansen

Referring to psychiatry

ISSUE 1980/3

G.J. Methorst, A.M.A. Meijs

This study was directed at the identification of factors which contribute to the rate of referral from general practitioners to the university outpatients department over the last five years. All of the 129 general practitioners of the area were a...

Consultation by a General Hospital Psychiatric Department (GHPD).

ISSUE 1980/3

P.J.M. van Alphen

Questions concerning diagnostic and therapeutic issues (patient-oriented approach) and questions concerning referring persons, emotionally involved in patients' treatment, or concerning patients' situation (consultee and situation-oriented approac...

Senile dementia, and understanding of demential behaviour

ISSUE 1980/3

F. van 't Hooft

Senile dementia is defined unsatisfactorily as deficiency of memory and orientation, plus confabulations. It gives insufficient understanding of demential behaviour. This behaviour is characterized by mistakes and wrong compensations in daily livi...

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De medische relatie als medisch-psychologische parameter

R. Pierloot

Psychological aspects of the medical situation are finding in the doctor-patient relationship a significant way of expression. The last years some models have been formulated, offering a general framework to categorise variations in doctorpatient ...

Consultatieve psychiatrie

H.G.M. Rooymans

Some experiences of a psychiatric consultant in a general hospital are described. This is done based on a survey of referrals during a period of 6 months time. Especially, the question is raised why a psychiatric consultation has been asked for. I...

Enkele invallen over psychosen

L.M. Tas

Early psychoanalysis stressed that it could explain essential things about psychosis, in tact could explain why therapeutically nothing could be done. This may reflect a kind of tacit transaction: the psychiatric establishment can keep the psychot...

The future of psychiatric centers

D. Jacobs

After a short survey of basic-philosophies about the psychiatric centers, attention is given to the following aspects with regard to the future: clinical function, responsibility, specialisation and differentiation, internal structure and organisa...

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