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On work, handicaps and rehabilitation

J. van Weeghel, J. Zeelen

For several years now there has been hardly any development of theories on work rehabilitation. The British school of Bennett c.s. has been practically alone in elaborating the ideas of the German psychiatrist Simon. Bennett's approach may be char...

Psychoanalysis between interpretation and empiricism

J.A. den Boer

Since its introduction psychoanalysis occupied metaphorical space between science and humanities. The literature concerning this demarcation is critically reviewed. Current hypotheses regarding the methodological position of psychoanalysis find th...

Dysthymic disorder

R.F. Rieuwers, G.M. Schippers, R.F.W. Diekstra

This article reviews the work of Akiskal et al., concerning low-grade chronic depression. Three studies of a neurotic depressive out-patient population result in establishing clinically relevant subgroups of mild chronic depression. Dysthymic pati...

The Follow-up Project Psychotherapeutic Communities (9): in search of a comparison

G.W. Tremonti, R.F. Koning

A comparison of two groups of psychiatric patients is presented. About 600 psychiatric patients treated in general mental hospitals served as a reference group for the cohort of the Follow-up Project Psychotherapeutic Communities. Some methodologi...

Program evaluation in mental health care: the transformation of a less appropriate evaluation process into a more appropriate process

A.A.J.M. Beenackers

Many different forms of program evaluation are used in the field of mental health. In an article in an earlier issue of this journal (Beenackers 1987) we reduced all these forms to a single basic model: a cyclical process of exploration, setting o...

Peduncular hallucinosis

P.L. Oey, L.J.M. Brok

The cases are described of two patients suffering from attacks of visual hallucinations accompanied by pronounced restlessness. In both patiens dysfunction of brain stem as well as cerebellum was present. The pathogenesis of this organic brain syn...

The Leuven Family Questionnaire: a useful instrument for family assessment

E. Kog, H. Vertommen, W. Vandereycken

The Leuven Family Questionnaire is a new instrument based upon the structural family theory of Minuchin. It measures the perception of conflict, cohesion and disorganisation in the family. The scales proved to be internally consistent and stabile ...

The IPPO (Intramurale Psychiatrische Patiënten Observatie): a new rating scale for the evaluation on psychiatric inpatients

P. Betgem

The IPPO is a behaviour rating scale, developed for a more objective observation of psychiatric inpatients. Although there are several well-known rating scales, as for instance the NOSIE, the IPPO does have some advantages that are of specific val...

Diagnosis as sentencing? The psychiatrist's task in Dutch penal law

D.T.D. de Ridder

In this paper the psychiatrist's position in Dutch penal law in the periods 1890-1910 is discussed with the help of historical literature. On basis of developments in penal thinking about mentally ill offenders the psychiatrist's view on his tasks...

Spinal cord lesions: coping and mooodstates

B. Bermond, J. Schuerman, B. Nieuwenhuyse, L. Fasotti, J. Elshout

6 december 2008

Forty-two patients with spinal cord lesions were asked to fill out the Amsterdam Mood Questionairre (Amsterdamse Stemmings Lijst (ASL)) in order to ascertain whether this group of patients with reduced sensorimotor capacities would show a deviant ...

A research project aimed at chronic psychiatric patients and their environment

L. Henkelman, B. de Ruiter

The chronically mentally ill have been described in the past 100 years as a homogeneous category of patients. Consequently two main treatment approaches were adopted based on the assumption that the treatment of such patients must by homogeneous t...

Personality; character or role-behaviour Validity aspects of the DSM-III classification of personality disord

W. van den Brink

The assessment of personality pathology, the classification of personality disorders and the relation of these disorders to psychiatric symptoms/disorders have a growing impact on clinical and research activities in current psychiatry. The vitalit...

Vulnerable social position and chronic psychiatric illness

A. Escher, M. Romme, M. Breuls, G. Driessen

Between May 1981 and June 1985, a social demographic inventory from 541 long term psychiatric patients was made. In this period, these patients were treated in an outpatient service.

We examined the possibility to distinguish patient groups th...

Program evaluation in mental health care: the basic model

A.A.J.M. Beenackers

The most noteworthy development in recent years with regard to evaluation has been the considerable extension in the field covered. In the case of mental health care, the concept of evaluation has accordingly broadenend out into policy evaluation,...

Chronicity due to long term social dysfunctions

M. Romme, A. Escher, D. Radstake, M. Breuls

A cohort of 100 patients with a long term psychiatric career treated with home care, social interventions and drugs, were categorized in groups according to their societal position (a combination of sex, marital status) at the onset of their psych...

Involuntary admissions to mental hospitals and psychiatric university clinics regional differences and tendencies

A.C. de Graaf, G.V.C. Dekker

Admissions to mental hospitals can be either voluntary or involuntary. Involuntary admissions in this article are admissions in virtue of a committal to custody or a judicial authorization. Admissions in pursuance of the administration of penal la...

Consistentie van psychiatrische diagnosen

P. van Lieshout, G. Brook, P. van Dijk

The reliability of psychiatric diagnoses was assessed making use of data from a centralized registration of patients in psychiatric hospitals. One major conclusion is that about 80% of the patients is given the same diagnosis at admission as upon ...

Pre-pubescence-hypochondriasis

L.H. Hageman-Wenselaar

In the article we describe on which grounds the diagnosis `psychosis due to pre-pubescence' has to be made. We will illustrate it with the clinical course of 3 children (10, 11 and 12 year) who are in their pre-pubescence and have developed such a...

Treatment program of a short stay department

L.H.W.M. Kaiser

The admission and short stay department of a General Psychiatric Hospital (GPH, in Dutch: APZ) is considered as a suprasystem for the patient, comparable with the family. It can often be observed that in the departments the same interactions devel...

Social class and mental disorders: a Dutch drama?

R. Giel, D. Wiersma, A. de Jong

The relationship between social class and mental disorders, especially schizophrenia, is again and again taken for granted. It is mostly supposed that there is a causal relationship between subordinate social positions and greater prevalence of me...

Psychiatric investigation and assessment of work disability

M. Kabela

In this article an attempt is made to give a better insight into the psychiatric investigation of unfitness for work, pertaining to the application of social legislation (ZW, AAW/WAO). A psychiatrist is often required to make a report in a case wh...

`Hysterical stupor every other day': pitfalls in psychiatry

H.M.A. de Hoop, G.E.G. Verhoef, P.J. Koehler

The authors present the case of a patient showing recurrent attacks of behavioural disorder. A final diagnosis of insulinoma was only made after the appearance of the first signs of neurological involvement. The attacks disappeared completely afte...

Jangue Jangue in Guinea-Bissau, un unknown culture-bound syndrome among Balanta women

ISSUE 1987/2

J.T.V.M. de Jong

Among the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau many women show bizarre behavior accompanying an unkwown culture-bound syndrome, which is calles Jangue Jangue. The two phases of this syndrome are described. The women receive commandments of the Balanta god dur...

Problems in communication in transcultural psychiatry

ISSUE 1987/2