Special issue

Law and the position of tbr-detainees

F. Koenraadt

Detention at the Government's pleasure (tbr) can be imposed by the judge on mentally disturbed delinquents. This measure, provided by the Dutch Criminal Code, leads to forensic psychiatric hospitalization. For the improvement of the position of tb...

Patterns of care of a cohort of patients with a neurotic depression

F.G. Brook, R. Giel, G.H.M.M. ten Horn, S. Sytema

A cohort of patients with a neurotic depression who where entered into the Groningen register in 1975 was followed for a period of six years to study the pattern of care. Diagnostic changes could occur and actually happened. To study the prognosti...

Non-helping and hindering processes in experiential psychotherapy

G. Lietaer , M. Neirinck

325 Sessions — stemming from 41 therapies and 25 therapists — were evaluated by both client and therapist, on the basis of an open question concerning negative processes. A content analysis of the data (91 client and 200 therapist answer segments)...

The follow-up Project Psychotherapeutic Communities (3)

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

In this article research findings are presented and discussed on the persistente of change in patients after termination of intensive psychotherapeutic treatment in a residential setting. Follow-up assessments at one and three years after discharg...

Who will be protected by the civil commitment bill BOPZ?

J.A. Jenner

A new civil commitment bill, called BOPZ, is in preparation in the Netherlands. The diagnosis of mental illness and the prediction of danger are connected in series. Although a more efficient system of checking by the court of justice is guarantee...

The therapeutic community as a psychotherapeutic instrument in the treatment of drug addicts

M. Kooyman

Drug addiction and the related acting out behaviour protects the person from experiencing pain and fear from a variety of origins. Most drug addicts, however, show a defect in their ego-development, especially during the separation/ individuation ...

Neuropsychological functioning of severely emaciated anorexia nervosa patients

M.E. Houben, R. Vandenbergen, W. Vandereycken

A selected sample of 20 female anorexia nervosa patients in a state of serious emaciation was investigated on a screening battery of neuropsychological tests. A striking finding was the high number of deficits in the short-term visual memory. The ...

Admissions in mental hospitals of foreigners, particularly minority groups living in the Netherlands

O.H. Brook, A.C. de Graaf

In the period of 1972-1982 the number of foreigners admitted to mental hospitals increased gradually. Foreigners are defined as born outside the Netherlands having a foreign nationality. The increase turned out to be 91 percent, broadly the same a...

The thesis of institutionalism: a questionable one

B. Holman , J. Wennink

The past decade has seen many changes in the care for chronic mental patients in the Netherlands. Large-scale institutions, which Goffman aptly called 'total institutions', because of the all pervasive influence they had on behavior and attitudes ...

Drug-induced psychiatric disorders: (differential) diagnosis in daily practice

W.M.N.J. Buis, A.J.M. Loonen

Drug-induced mental disturbances are likely to be encountered in daily clinical practice, but are perhaps not always recognized. This is partly due to the multifactorial causation of psychiatric symptoms. This article deals with the differential d...

Somatic illness in psychiatric in-patients

E. de Haan, C.A.L. Hoogduin, B. Terluin

Psychiatric in-patients at a general hospital were screened for somatic illness. It was discovered that 32% of these patients had somatic diseases that had been overlooked previously. A percentage of 75 was found in patients of sixty years or olde...

The treated 'one-day prevalence' of mental illness

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

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

ISSUE 1984/2

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

ISSUE 1984/2