Special issue

De 'psychiatrische' problematiek; een gebrek aan alternatieven

J. Beckers

The 'psychiatrie problem: a lack of alternatives
Based on a cognitive (relational) learning model, the problem which psychiatry is confronted with is considered as being a problematic interaction between the individual with his behaviour-potential...

Kritische psychiatrie of diskriminerende psychiatrie?

F. van Ree

Critical psychiatry or incriminating psychiatry?
The author supports a good deal of the criticism against the inferior living conditions and working methods in most of the psychiatric clinics.
He, however, wants to signalize some dangers in connec...

Wie vervangt de psychiater'

J. L. v. d. Lande

'Who will replace the Psychiatrist?'
The specific role of the 'psychotherapist-with-a-medical-training' is discussed by a non-traditionally oriented psychiatrist. Many young dutch residents in psychiatry have uneasy feelings about their future pos...

De zelfstandig werkende psychiater en de RIAGG

A.J. Boom

The independant psychiatrist and the Regional Institute for Ambulant Mentid Health Care
It is policy of the dutch government to ct. eate a less complicated and confusing system of mental health care. Instead of a large number of sometimes competit...

Klinische behandeling m.b.v. 'patiënten-units' op de psychiatrische afdeling van een algemeen ziekenhuis

R.V. Groenewold

Clinical treatment with patient-units the psychiatric ward of a general hospital
In the last decades several articles describing a therapeutic community were published. However, little is known about the application of such a therapeutic system to...

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Begeleiding van de ontwikkeling bij autistiform gestoorde kinderen

Cohen-Matthijssen

On the development of autistic disturbed children
This paper concerns the development into adolscense of autistic children. The diagnostic problems of the syndrome are not reviewed. Attention is given to possible causes and some epidemiologic aspe...

Symmetrische symbolisering bij kinderen

G.T. Koopmans, B. Santen

Symmetrical symbolization, an alternative to Gendlin's focusing technique
This article aims at applying the experiential psychotherapeutic framework to children. An introduction is given both to Gendlin's experiential theory and the focusing techn...

Tussen vader- en moederland

M.W. Hengeveld, J. L. v. d. Lande

'Between father- and motherland'; extra identity problems for adolescents whose parents diff er in nationality
A study of 20 adolescents with parents from different nationalities, admitted for residential treatment in the Youth Psychiatry Clinic '...

Onze gebruikelijke fouten*

A.H. Hijmans van den Bergh

The usual mistakes
Subject of the article: residential psychotherapy with male and female adolescents and youths who suffer from serious neurotic disturbance. The text is entirely conceived in terms of some rnistakes which staff may make.
In resid...

Tussen conflict en uitwisseling

W. Martens

Between conflict and exchange
A description of the specific problems in the relationship between a psychotherapeutic clinic for children and the parental families of the children. This is a complicated and vulnerable relationship, because the clin...

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Karl Jaspers, een psychiater?

R.J. van Helsdingen

Karl Jaspers, a psychiatrist?
Karl Jaspers was a physician who got a complete education as a psychiatrist by Emil Kraepelin. Even as assistent he published about schizophrenia and about phenomenology in psychiatry. In 1913, when he was 28, he publ...

Bezwaard gemoed in een regio

J.D. van Scheyen

Depression in a rural area; on the relation between endogenous depression, religion and suicide
The premorbid personality of patients with endogenous (unipolar, vital) depressions frequently shows the typical characteristics of the 'Typus melancho...

Token Economy II

B. de Ruiter

Token economy II, response generalization or the effects of T.E. upon nonreinforced behaviour
In this second report of a token economy program with 30 hospitalized psychiatric patients, at the R.P.I. in Eindhoven, we asked ourselves two questions:...

De behandeling van lijders aan acute schizofrenie met thioridazine *

E. Verbeek, N. Verbeek, C. Jannes, F. Vanderheeren, F. de Meulemeester

The treatment of acute schizophrenics with thioridazine
The conclusion of our experience concerning the treatment of acute schizophrenics over a fair amount of years is that thioridazine gives the best results of all the existant antischizophrenic...

Concretisering en differentiëring van vader- en moedersymboliek in de ouderbeelden bij psychosomatische patiënten en gezonde volwassenen*

R.A. Pierloot, F. Hoornaert

The paternal and maternal symbolic dimensions in parental images of psychosomatic patients
The Semantic Differential Parental (S.D.P.), a modification of the Semantic Differential, has been developed from the assumption that it is possible to defi...