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Directive therapy with marital couples and families

R. van Dijck

A brief discription is given of behavioral techniques of family and marital therapy along the Tines of Knox, Stuart and Liberman. This approach is compared to the strategies of paradoxical interventions as used by therapists such as Haley, Jackson...

The psychiatrists in private practice

J.L.M. van der Beek

The present situation of psychiatric treatment is described. The training of more psychiatrists can never solve the problem of an ever-increasing number of psychiatric patients. New models are proposed, like group psychotherapy, and groups for cou...

Sharing or delegation of power, an important therapeutic decision in the development of a psychiatric hospital

P. Bierenbroodspot

The concept of the therapeutic community has become widely accepted as the basis model at which the modern mental hospital should aim. The therapeutic character of the therapeutic community can be shortly described as intrapsychic (by counteractin...

Idols, ideals, ideologies

J.A. Groen

The question is raised why idols, ideals and ideologies play such an important role in human life. In our daily psycho-analytical work can be demonstrated how both transference and countertransference are influenced by idolisation, idealizing and ...

Goal Attainment Scaling; a method for evaluating psychotherapies

C.A.M. de Wit

Goal Attainment Scaling is a method, where every client, every problem and every variable aspect of those problems are evaluated as different from other clients, other problems and other variable aspects: it is an individualized evaluating method....

De kinderpsychiatrie en haar relaties met andere psychiatrische richtingen

Report on an investigation concerning some psychological aspects of conscientious objectors

M. Kabela

In the ABV-test, (Amsterdamse Biografische Vragenlijst, a Dutch personality questionnaire), the conscientious objectors scored highly on the N-scale, (neurotic lability as far as manifested in psycho-neurotic complaints), and on the NS-scale, (neu...

Patient, physician and nurse; their mutual relationship then and now

R. Bambang Oetomo

This article deals with 'fake roles' of patient, physician and nurse. These fake roles originated over the years in mental as well as general hospitals. We call them fake roles because dysfunctional aspects of theirs with respect to therapeutic ob...

Improvement of the climate in a psychiatric hospital; a process that asks for a methodical approach

H. van Andel

Processes of change in a psychiatric hospital are discussed. They are related to a methodical improvement of the climate. Climate was described as a balance arising between the emotional and material needs and expectations of patients and those of...

From renovation to growth; the contribution of a process consultant

J.F. van Ravenzwaaij

The changes in the mental hospital make rather high demands on staff and patients. There is a growing insight that the approach toward the patients should be different from the traditional doctor-patient relationship. In this paper we describe how...

Mededelingen uit het Centrale Patienten-register voor psychiatrische ziekenhuizen en universiteitsklinieken

R. Giel, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

De psychiatrische inrichting in opspraak

Starting points for a new legislation concerning mental patients

J.W.M. Jongmans

A new legislation concerning mental patients ought to have two main purposes: 1 — the protection of certain mental patients, who by their mental illness are not able to protect and promote their own interests in a proper way and 2 — the protection...

The role of aggression in psychosomatic symptom formation

H. Musaph

The concept of aggression has many contents. As a result the operational definition of different research workers varies considerably. We have confined ourselves to aggression as an emotion. The possibilities of quantifying emotions are still insu...

Treatment and follow-up of children's encopresis

E.A.K. Wauters, W.H.G. Wolters

In this description of the treatment and follow-up of children's encopresis, the integrated medical and psycho-social approach is emphasized. Also described are a number of issues which, to the authors' opinion, are crucial for the psycho-social c...

Annotations on anorexia nervosa

E. Verbeek

The author contests the current opinion about anorexia nervosa concerning the family structure in which the patients grow up. The mother is, according to his experience, not a dominering but rather an uncertain personality, usually with more or le...

From the Central Register of Psychiatrie Inpatients (M.2)

R. Giel, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

A survey of the diagnostic classification of the inpatients on admission and at discharge shows an agreement of 83%. The more significant shifts in classification occur between the 'other psychoses' and the personality disorders, and between the '...

De psychiatrische inrichting in opspraak (2)

Wet Arbeidsongeschiktheid en Psychotherapie: het grote misverstand

A.A. Fischer

In the Netherlands psychotherapeutic help is made financially possible a.o. by the Disablement Insurance Act of 1967. Since social institutions are offering financial help in an organized way the problem of criteria has arisen. What is the value o...

The situation of the housewife who has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital

A.J. Uyterlinde

In the treatment and rehabilitation of the housewife who has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, certain specific problems can arise which stem from the Pact that her home situation to which she will return, usually remains unchanged. Under t...

Piracetam in a case of acute cerebral hypoxemia

F. Bruynooghe, A.J. Tanghe

A 57 years old patient was admitted to hospital with melancholia induced by Reserpine. He improved rapidly on Anafranil infusions. The neurological and internal conditions were normal on admission. Patient choked with food, became unconscious and ...

From the Central Register of Psychiatrie Inpatients (M. 3)

R. Giel, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

In 1972 the law regarding the certification of psychiatric patients was changed. The expected decrease in the number of certified patients did take place. However, a simular, although less dramatic, trend could already be observed before 1972.

De psychiatrische inrichting in opspraak (3)

In search for sociotherapy, ten years asylum experience