Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie

Time sense II. Essay from the psychopathological point of view

ISSUE 1987/2

G.J. van der Ploeg, D.M.J. Raeyemaeker

In the second paper about the sense of time a description is given of its disturbances in the psychopathology of adult and child. Time and its chronobiological implications and the significance of time in `vitale depressies' are high lighted. The ...

ForumAndere toepassingsmogelijkheden voor rectiolen binnen de klinische psychiatrie

R.J.P. Hazewinkel, W.J. Broekema

In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op andere toepassingsmogelijkheden voor rectiolen binnen de klinische psychiatrie, en wel bij patiënten bij wie meer gebruikelijke toedieningsvormen niet mogelijk zijn. Aan de hand van twee patiëntenvoorbeelden worden...

ForumParagnosie en psychotherapie

J.L.J. Lumeij

De schrijver gaat uit van een casus, beschreven door J.J.C. Marlet in zijn artikel `Paranormaal of ziekelijk?' (Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie 1986/5). Het gaat over een psychotherapeute die langs paragnostische weg gegevens ontvangt die van groot b...

Primary prevention in community mental health.

F.M. Gerards

Unsolved problems and the perspective of the health education approach

Until now, the question `Can psychic disorders be prevented?' cannot be answered in the affirmative. Prevention workers have different opinions about it. On the one hand,...

Time sence I. Essay from the developmental and psychological point of view

G.J. van der Ploeg, D.M.J. Raeyemaeker

This paper gives a description of the normal development of time sense in the child, from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology and the development of language. Discrimination between time as sequence and time as duration is briefl...

Aspects of psychiatric help-seeking behaviour

P.P.G. Hodiamont, P.H.J.M. Heyendael, P.G.M. Peer

To our former dissertation about the psychopathological determinants of illness-, and help-seeking behaviour we add in this paper a social-psychological elaboration of the matter.

Taking the line of Lazarus we examined in a community based sam...

Life-event research and psychopathology

R. Sanderman, J. Ormel, G. Raats

In this paper we want to underscore the importance of life-event research in the study of psychiatric disorders. It is concluded that stress plays a role of some importance in the etiology of psychological illness, though it is not a necessary pre...

The treated year-prevalence of mental illness in two register-areas

H.J.F.R. Hamers

Year-prevalence figures from two Dutch psychiatric case-registers have been compared. Although the findings suggest some remarkable similarities, there seem to exist some differences between the mental health care in both areas.

In general we ...

Care and motivation for treatment in the Dutch TBR-system

H.J.C. van Marle

In the Dutch TBR-system (TBR means: detained by the Government's pleasure) a Commission on behalf of the Minister of Justice has published an interim report about the legal position of the detainees. The author of this article has the opinion that...

Personality and unipolar depression

J.D. van Scheyen

Patients with unipolar depression are often self-critical, conscentious, hard-working, socially well integrated persons, who however, also tend to uncertainty about maintaining this high level of value achievement.

These personality features c...

Disturbed parents - vulnerable children? The influence of parental psychopathology on children. I - a review

J.J. Wernand

In this contribution some of the results of empirical research on children of mentally disturbed parents are summerized. Severe and especially chronic parental psychopathology correlates with an increase of developmental disorders and psychiatric ...

Physical illness of the chronic psychiatric outpatients

A. Honig, A.D.M.A.C. Escher, M.A.J. Romme, M.G.G.J. Breuls

Epidemiological data concerning physical illness of the chronic psychiatric outpatients are scarce and incomplete. Somatic illness and complaints in the described population proves to be high. Research of factors involved in missing a somatic diag...

Short-term psychotherapy for depressions

J.M. Prins, W. van Tilburg

Three main streams are to be discerned in short-term psyschotherapy for depressions: cognitive therapy, `interpersonal therapy' and behaviour therapies. Only the last years with regard to these three a number of clinical trials have been published...

Illness or mysticism

J.-M. Decuypere

Many psychiatrists regard mysticism as a form of mental disorder or as a danger for mental health. Two cases of so called `esoteric students', suffering from severe psychosis, are presented. It is argued that in the first case disruption was not c...

The Follow-up Project Psychotherapeutic Communities (8): All is well that ends well?

A.M. Koster, J.E.A. Wagenborg

Personal well-being and post-discharge consumption of professional help were studied in a longitudinal pre-, post- and 5 year follow-up survey of 271 neurotic and psychotic in-patients who were treated in a psychotherapeutic community. The results...

The paradox of short-term residential psychotherapy and regression

M.P. Bolten

Residential psychotherapy, more than out-patient treatment, invites regression in clients. This may be one of the reasons for the finding that the stay in Psychotherapeutic Communities is often longlasting. When residential psychotherapy however i...

The chronicity of psychological distress

J. Ormel, R. Sanderman, G. Raats

In order to gain insight into the course of psychological distress a community sample of 245 adults was interviewed three times, in 1975, in 1976 and in 1984. Two operational case-definitions were applied. The most restrictive definition was based...

Neuropeptides and depression

W.M.A. Verhoeven, S. Straus

Since the discovery of peptides in hypophysis and brain, several classes of these peptides have been tested on their putative antidepressive properties. The clinical research was stimulated both by the symptomatology of depressive disorders and th...

The development of the Functioning Observation Scales Santpoort

G.T. Koopmans

In this article the development of a rating scale for assessing the level of functioning of psychiatric inpatients is described. The criteria specifying the contents to be covered by the scale were determined by a process which involved the poolin...

Conceptual organization in psychosis and depression

P.M.A.J. Dingemans, J.H. Dijkhuis, R. Stobberingh, H. van Engeland, R. Brunt

In dit onderzoek werd onderzocht:

a. in hoeverre unipolaire depressieve en functioneel psychotische psychiatrische patiënten te onderscheiden zijn op de mate van conceptualisering;

b. in hoeverre de mate en kwaliteit hiervan beïnvloed word...

The follow-up project Psyschotherapeutic Communities (7): Consumer-satisfaction

A.M. Koster

The utility of consumer-satisfaction data in program-evaluation studies is inspected by means of direct and indirect patient evaluations of treatment effects and of personal functioning. These evaluations are collected from 656 ex-clients 3 years ...

Mental health care in Guinee-Bissau: the differences between rural areas and the city

M.E. Maassen van den Brink, J.T.V.M. de Jong, G.H.M.M. ten Horn

The authorities of Guinee-Bissau started a programme to introduce mental health care as part of primary health care. A study was carried out in rural areas and in the capital of Guinee-Bissau. As a part of it, patients who were attending primary h...

Diagnostic criteria: essential but controversial

ISSUE 1986/7

G.F.M.G. Berden

Since the introduction of the DSM-III there exists a renewed interest in the use of diagnostic criteria as a means of delineating classification-categories. In an explorative study, using the criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (a DSM-III categ...

Dutch `private-house-psychiatry' as therapeutics

ISSUE 1986/7