Special issue

Over 'die Unfahigkeit zu Trauern' van Alexander en Margarete Mitcherlich

Dubbel blind onderzoek naar de invloed van Dipiperon (Pipamperone, R 3345) op gedragsproblemen in de orthopedagogische leefgroep

H.O.Th. Finkensieper, W. ter Horst

Thirteen girls aged between 14 and 17 years were included in an open study assessing the effect of Dipiperon in behavioural disorders in an orthopedagogic setting. Initially, patients received Dipiperon under open conditions for 3 weeks (phase 1) ...

the psychiatric bed

F.W.M. Jongmans

The author tries to give a definition of 'a psychiatric bed'. The many differences between the beds, on which psychiatric patients are treated, are noticed. All those differences between psychiatric beds do not deliver a basis for a good planning...

Planning in the Mental Health System

F. Godefroy

In his article author discusses some methodological problems which confront every researcher in the field of man power planning. Especially the use of the need concept offers difficulties. The belief that the need of physicians could be assessed o...

The epidemiological need-model in the planning of psychiatric facilities

W. Nelemans

The Epidemiological need-model frequently advocated in literature on planning of (mental) health care is analysed in the frame-work of modern sociological theories. The author's basic concept is that the system's quality and size should be based o...

The future of child psychiatrie

D.J. de Levita

The achievements of psychoanalytically oriented psychiatry with respect to psychotic, brain damaged and deprevied children are briefly discussed. New forms of hostility toward psychiatry are considered as a sign of the latter's growing esteem and ...

Problems existing on the verge of ambulatory and clinical psychiatry: social-psychiatric aspects

J. van Londen

The assignment given to the author was to draw in outline the problems existing on the verge of ambulatory and clinical psychiatry. In this article is not given a summing up of the various problems in the field of organizing these activities, beca...

Sociotherapy, some programs, their intentions and their background

F. Baro, K. Blancke, R. Dom, R. van Lommel

After a brief description of the characteristics of custodialism, a historical review is given of sociotherapy. The so-called moral treatment, the total push movement, and the school that centers around the idea of the therapeutical community are ...

Anthropological reflections about the theme 'living in a psychiatric hospital'

J.E.J.M. van Eynde

'Let live' is one of the tasks of the psychiatric hospital. In this article is gone further into living as anthropologic datum. An anthropology of the living man has to reckon with the results of the developmentpsychological, social psychological,...

An internist's experiences in a psychiatric hospital

F.M. Meijers

A general survey is given of what an internist belonging to the staff of a psychiatric hospital may expect concerning more or less hidden somatic abnormalities and diseases. A number of examples illustrate this view. Emphasis is laid on the opinio...

Transsexualism of males

A. Pen

Transsexualism has been understood as a disorder of the awareness of the own genderidentity. Transsexuals are rigidly convinced that they belong to the opposite sex, and they wish to acquire the external features of that sex. Most authors agree th...

Remarks on pyromania

R.C. Hoekstra

Eight patients with the symptom of pyromania were described in their overall symptomatology. Many points of difference with the fire-setter syndrome of Mach and Mack (1) were described. The symptom of pyromania was conceived as an unconscious sign...

Compulsion hysteria

E. Verbeek

Compulsion is the most important symptom not only of compulsion diseases but acts as a dynamic element in relatively exceptional form of hysteria, called in this article compulsionhysieria. Out of three patients observed by the author one is exten...

Epilepsy... and what next!

H. Smits

The epilepsies, as 'endemic' illness, require a combination of short- and longterm treatment, during the entire lifetime. People suffering from epilepsy form a collectivum with its own characteristics, which might make the group recognizable. Ever...

The use of lithium in manic depressive psychoses

J.H. Thiel

Survey of literature on the therapeutic and prophylactic value of lithium carbonate. The therapeutic value in the treatment of mania has been established beyond doubt; the therapeutic value in depression is doubtful and is inferior to the effect o...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking

R. van Dijck

In this article an attempt is made to intruduce briefly the central concepts of general systems theory and communication theory and to illustrate their application to psychiatric thinking. The review is mainly based on publications of authors such...

Relationship between a mental hospital and a psychiatric ward of a general hospital

K. Visser

In this paper we have stressed the point that psychiatry as basic science cannot be ignored any longer in the whole of medical sciences represented in a general hospital. It is now time therefore to draw practical conclusions from this by mapping ...

Some aspects of the mental hospital in the turbulance of this era

F.M. Meijers

Since the second half of this century the psychiatric hospitals (in the Netherlands) are populated in increasing numbers with individuals who, more or less and to a certain extent are the victims of the unstable times in which we live. It is quest...

Psychotherapy, gratification and the mental hospital

F.J.M Rouppe van der Voort

Some patients in mental hospitals show, during their stay an increasing dependency and need for security, in addition to a decrease of personal responsibility. This tendency is facilitated by social laws and institutions. From the psychoanalytical...

Psychiatric examination in a situation strange to the patient

R.E. Abraham

During the first contacts with a new patient, the psychiatrist may have the feeling that the story of his life, the picture of his person, the patiënt presents to him is somehow incomplete. Sometimes, especially with 'experienced' patients it turn...

Report on an investigation concerning some psychological aspect of conscientious objectors

M. Kabela

At the end of 1971, 176 conscripts, who had made an appeal to the Bill 'Conscientious Objections to Military Service', were subjected to a psychological examination, on voluntary basis. We did not select a representative group of conscientious obj...

The application of general systems theory and communication theory to psychiatric thinking Part 1,B and C

R. van Dijck

Watzlawick's axioms of the pragmatics of human communication are presented: the ineviability to communicate in an interpersonal situation and the simultaneous occurrence of communication and metacommunication. Dyadic interactions are described as ...

One and one is three

ISSUE 1974/1

9 december 2008

H.T. Piron

In recent years psychoanalytic theory and practice suffered from a tendency to neglect some basic Freudian concepts. The influence of European phenomenologic psychopathology and American interpersonal psychiatry has been leading to new psychothera...