Special issue

The Bill on Involuntary Admissions to Mental Hospitals

J. Krul-Steketee

In 1971 a bill on Involuntary Admissions to Mental Hospitals (in Dutch: BOPZ) was introduced to replace the Lunary Act of 1884. This bill has been modified several times but has not yet passed Parliament. The most important regulations of the bill...

Psychiatrie case definition

P.P.G. Hodiamont

In view of a psychiatric epidemiological project, a thought is given to psychiatrie case definition. After a review of basic epidemiological concepts, stressing the need of a definition for caseness, three opinions are discussed. The uselessness o...

Neurochemical aspects of childhood autism

D.G. Cohen, R.B. Minderaa, J.G. Young

Autism seems to be a developmental disorder accompained by severe and mostly permanent intellectual and behavioral deficits based on some form of neurobiological defect as causative factor. The clinical studies of serotonin, dopamine and norepinep...

Aftercare for functional non-affective psychoses: development in the cooperation of mental health services

R. Giel, G.H.M.M. ten Horn, A. de Jong, C.J. Slooff, D. Wiersma

A survey of the treatment received by patients during three years after the onset of a first-lifetime episode of a functional non-affective psychosis is presented against the background of developments concerning the mental health services. Treatm...

Depression and the elderly person

J. Godderis

In this review the assumption of a specific relationship between old age and depression will be examined. Depression in the elderly appears to be more frequent than clinicians commonly believe. The prevalence of depressive symptoms at old age is p...

Forgetting in the aged --- differential diagnostic considerations

J.Ph. Hes

Does forgetting in aged persons herald the coming of senile dementia or is it a phenomenon essentially different from the process of senile dementia? After a discussion of the contributions of psychoanalysis, neuropharmacology and neuropsychology,...

Sheltered homes for psychiatric in- and out-patients; a report of a national survey

F.G. Brook, J. Burger, M.J. Haveman

This article shows some results of a comparative study, conducted in 1980, of sheltered homes financed by the Department of Health and the Department of Welfare. The following aspects were studied:

lenght of stay and discharge policy;
admiss...

Cerebro spinal fluid investigation in psychiatric diagnosis

J.A.C. Bleeker, J.A. Swinkels

A decision procedure for lumbar puncture is presented, based on a discussion of clinical tradition and the literature regarding the role of CSF-investigation in psychiatry. It is stressed that there can never be a blind following of these rules, a...

The relation between Freud and Dora

H. Stroeken

Illustrated with relevant historical details the psychoanalytic process between Dora and Freud is described: the begin situation and the developing misunderstanding, ending by the sudden departure of Dora. The reason for this failure is discussed ...

Electroshock: noxious effects

J.W.B.M. van Berkestijn, C.J. Slooff, R.H. van den Hoofdakker

ECT is a controversial treatment. Most of the concern over its use regards the effects ECT has on memory. The authors reviewed the literature on memory disturbances after bilateral ECT. The available literature does not permit firm conclusions bec...

Electroshock treatment and memory

J.J. Diamant

A review of recent literature is presented to investigate the effect of electroshock treatment on memory. The conclusions so far are not explicit. There is enough evidence of memory disturbance after ECT. The objectively established memory dysfunc...

A Dutch Translation of the PSE 9th edition

R.H. van den Hoofdakker, W.R.E.H. Mulder, C.J. Slooff

The results with a Dutch translation of the PSE (9th edition) were investigated as to reliability and validity aspects in one hundred newly admitted patients. Reliability results were reported previously (part 1). As to the content validity, the P...

A Dutch Translation of the PSE 9' h edition; Part I — Reliability

R.H. van den Hoofdakker, W.R.E.H. Mulder, C.J. Slooff

A Dutch translation of the PSE (9th edition) was tested for inter-rater reliability in one hundred newly admitted patients with a broad variety of symptoms. Twenty tour of them were re-interviewed in order to assess test-retest reliability. Seven ...

The psychiatrie patient: bound for justice?

P.J.H. Laurs

In this article the involuntary admission-procedures laid down in the bill on involuntary admissions to mental hospitals (ontwerp van Wet BOPZ) are analysed. Particularly the procedures on the judicial authorisation to admit a mentally disordered ...

The Mental Health Amendment Bill

G.V.C. Dekker

In 1960 the Mental Health Act 1959 was introduced in England and Wales. This Act was generally considered a product of modern legislation as it reflected the post-war results of psychiatric treatment (particularly with medication) and the changing...

Endorphines and schizophrenia: an overview

E. Brouwer, A. de Bruyn, M. van der Graaf, I. Kervel

Clinical studies on endorphines and schizophrenia are overviewed and evaluated. In the past eight years studies on endorphines have been a topic in the scientific literature. Several theories have been developed about the relation between endorphi...

Outpatient services in a city area

R. Giel, G.H.M.M. ten Horn

A Dutch psychiatric case register served to study the contribution to the delivery of mental health care to the area-population by a variety of outpatient services. There is obviously some overlap between services in the patterns of care and the t...

Released from a mental hospital

A.C. van den Hout

In this article attention is asked to the similarity between the admission in a psychiatric hospital and the release from it. The admission as the end of a pré-patient-phase resolves some problems and creates new-ones; at the release some problems...

'Interpretation or support'.

F.A.M. Kortmann

In a psychiatric outpatient clinic we see a variety of symptoms and/or personality disorders. The object-relations-theory offers a frame of reference to devide the patients into two groups. On the one side the patients who can depend on fairly mat...

DSM-III in childpsychiatry

F.C. Verhulst

The advantages and disadvantages of the use of DSM-III in childpsychiatry are considered. Where relevant DSM-III is compared with the ICD-9 as far as childhood and adolescent psychopathology is concerned. In classifying children and adolescents de...

A flourishing psychiatry out of danger

H.M. van Praag

A brief survey is given of a number of developments in psychiatry over the past 20 years. The most important one is considered to be the introduction of the methods of the empirical sciences in psychiatry. Psychiatry is developing from a theoretic...

Profile of a round-the-clock Psychiatrie Emergency Service

E.H. Ameling, J.A.C. Bleeker, R.V. Schwartz

From 1965 until 1979 about 14.000 patients were attended to by the psychiatrie emergency service at the Amsterdam University Hospital. Of each visit a short semi-structured record exists. From a random sample demographic, diagnostic and outcome da...

Sexual terminology and experience: about words and wishes, knowledge and values

A. van Waning

In this article the development of an image of body and sexuality in het child is described, with attention paid to the fantasy life of the child and the role of sexual enlightenment. Out of sexual terminology and sexual fantasies in grown-ups we ...

Aspects of illness-experience and psychotherapy in a non-western culture