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The treated 'one-day prevalence' of mental illness

ISSUE 1985/2

F.G. Brook, H.J.F.R. Hamers

'One-day prevalence' figures from the two Dutch psychiatric case-registers have been compared. Findings suggest remarkable similarities. In both areas most people contacted out-patient services, especially the so called Regional Institutes for Amb...

Mental health care of children aged up to 12 years

ISSUE 1985/2

A. Brug, G.H.M.M. ten Horn, J.L. Wouters

Patterns of mental health care delivered to a cohort of children aged up to 12 years, were studied during the course of one year. The cohort consisted of all new cases from a geographically circumscribed area, entered on a case-register covering t...

Psychotherapy and its lost dimension

P. Berten

Psychotherapists are mostly interessed in intra-psychic conflicts, or in disturbed learning processes, or in system disturbances. A fourth dimension, the existential meaning, is often left aside. This article points to the loss, this averse attitu...

Pseudocyesis: psychogenic conception

H.N. Sno

Pseudocyesis is a rare condition. It is an almost perfect imitation of a true gravid state in absence of conception. Three famous patients are Mary Tudor, Joanna Southcott and Anna 0. Littie reliable information is available concerning the frequen...

Neurochemical aspects of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome

D.J. Cohen, J.F. Leckman , R.B. Minderaa

Tourette's syndrome is described as a neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood, reflecting the interaction between genetic, neurophysiological and environmental factors, which change in their expression during the course of development. The recent r...

Dementia of the Alzheimer type: An overview of recent advances in our understanding of the aetiology and pathogenesis of the disease

J. Godderis

Alzheimer's disease (AD), which accounts for approximately 50 per cent of autopsied cases of dementia, is a serious, prevalent, and debilitating disease that has ramifications throughout the family and the community. Although this form of dementia...

Follow-up project of Psychotherapeutic Communities (2): 'The non-respons problem'

R.F. Koning, G.W. Tremonti

The aim of the Follow-up Project Psychotherapeutic Communities is to describe the effects of psychotherapeutic treatment within a residential setting. The collection of data in this longitudinal study is mainly carried out by means of a mailed que...

Language and development

A. Wunderink

Vygotskij's approach concerning the development of language and thought in the child is reviewed and delineated against the major approaches in his time. Vygotskij's critique on Piaget's early works is reviewed. Emphasis is laid on methodological ...

The use of ethological behaviour measurements for the diagnosis of social deprivation

H. Dienske, G. de Jonge, J.A.R. Sanders-Woudstra

A comparison was made between the behaviour of 61 severely socially deprived children and 41 controls during a psychiatric screening session. Ages ranged from 1.5 to 12 years. The occurrence of directly observable ethological categories of social ...

Anthropological questions in relation to psychiatry

A.W.M. Mooij

The article intends to contribute to the discussion on the specificity of psychiatry. It stresses the point of view that psychiatry is fundamentally a practice oriented discipline. On the basis of this presupposition it discusses

the possibili...

A study of the interrater reliability of the ICD-9-CM

P.M.A.J. Dingemans, J. Dutilh

Noticed is that the ICD-9-CM as a classification system has many shortcomings. Several are described. To calculate the diagnostic reliability with ICD-9-CM, a simple method with correction for chance is described and employed. Six residents and on...

Childhood asthma

A.M. Meijer

This article describes various researches into the factors which influence the susceptibility to asthma and subsequent development of the complaint as well as the consequences for the child and family. The following researches are analysed:

th...

Running therapy in depressive patients

R. Bosscher , T. Damen, J. Fahrenfort

Running therapy is conceived as effective treatment for depressive patients. Influence of running on self-concepts, emotions, state of consciousness and biochemical functioning are briefly discussed. Experiments on the effects of running up till n...

Effects of a training-course about mental health care in a region

H. Pekelharing , H.I.C. Ras, A.Ph Visser

The references of people with psychic and social problems to institutions in the field of the mental health care is determined by the attitude of the assistants, as appears from earlier investigations: the competitence with regard to the selftreat...

A house in the city

I. E. I. M. van Eynde

Since the sixties long-stay psychiatrie patients live in homes on the grounds of 'Wolfheze' Psychiatric Hospital. These patients live in small groups and are as much as possible self-supporting for their living: cooking on their own, shopping on t...

Hypersexuality from the biological point of view

M. Hebbrecht, W. Vandereycken

The term 'hypersexuality' or excessive sexual behavior is briefly discussed with emphasis upon the poor descriptions and definitions in the literature. Although hypersexuality is mostly psychogenicly determined, several somatic disorders may cause...

The continuous interest in the Oedipus Complex

F.H. Cornelisse

Quite frequently it is maintained that the Oedipus Complex' contemporary role is not important in psychoanalysis anymore. Going through the psychoanalytical literature, from Freud's writings up to recent contributions, one will find numerous proof...

Sleepdeprivation-therapy

J.D. van Scheyen

From the literature review and our own data the addition of Sleep Deprivation (SD) to anti-depressant therapy increases the response-rate. Evaluation of 35 patients with unipolar (vital) depression who received once a week sleep deprivation in com...

Combatting discrimination in the mental health care sector; an example of the use of program evaluation

A.A.J.M. Beenackers

In an article in an earlier issue of this journal (Beenackers, 1982a), we showed that not all people who approach an institution for mental health care to ask for help stand an equal chance of indeed recieving the help they are seeking. Certain ca...

Denominations and requests for admission in psychiatric institutions from 1960-1966 in Rotterdam

A. Verdonk

This article contains an investigation into the supposed relationship between the integration of denominations and requests for admission into a psychiatric hospital. This relationship is supposed to be inverse: the higher the integration of a den...

Cotard's syndrome

J.A.C. Bleeker, H. Sno

In the original publication Cotard's syndrome is characterized by delusions of nihilism or even immortality combined in some cases with depression and/or negativism. The literature does not support the often held belief that it is a distinct nosol...

The outpatient treatment of 25 patients with an obsessive compulsive disorder

C.A.L. Hoogduin, W.A. Hoogduin

The results in treating the obsessive-compulsives used to be poor. Meyer, Rachman , Foa and Emmelkamp did change this scene. They developped a strategy of exposure and response prevention. This treatment mostly was given in clinical settings and i...

Prevalence, course and treatment of psychiatric disorders in general practice

R. Giel, J. Ormel

Until recently reliable information on the prevalence and courses of psychological disorders in primary care was largely lacking. Due to the development of standardized psychiatric interviews and reliable diagnostic classifications, this situation...

The misfit: an attempt to give an impression