Special issue

After The Rites of Spring: trauma in a cultural perspective

ISSUE 1996/12

B.P.R. Gersons

The Great War has brought about on a large scale a tremendous interest in posttraumatic stress disorder. Never before so many died in a war which as looked upon afterwards must be characterized as completely devoid of sense. The historian Ekstein ...

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Over dissociatie en trauma: van diagnostiek tot compassion fatigue

The prediction of nonresponse to pharmacotherapy in panic disorder. A reviewof predictors of long term treatment response

B.R. Slaap, J.A. den Boer, H.G.M. Westenberg

The pharmacotherapeutic treatment of panic disorder can be hampered by several factors. These factors, which can be measured at baseline, can reduce the likelihood of successful treatment. A better knowledge of these factors can ensure that the op...

Psychosis as a late symptom in Velo-cardio-facial syndrome

G.M. Lemmens, S. Claes, K. Devriendt

Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS) is acongenital malformation syndrome of vari-able clinical expression. The syndrome s major features are cleft palate, cardiac anomalies, characteristic facies, and learning disabilities. Recently, psychiatric di...

The validity and reliability of the diagnosis ADHD in adults

P.C.M. Herpers, J.K. Buitelaar

Recently indications amount that Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) does not vanish during adolescence, but can continue to exist into adulthood. In this article, the literature concerning ADHD in adults (ADHD-A), particularly publish...

Disturbed language in psychosis: a case study

H.J.M. Engels, A. Steen

By a cryptanalysis the disturbed language of a psychotic patient can be traced back to clang associations on the family name. A model analogous to the model for the dis-turbed language in Emil Kraepelin's dreams appears to be equally valid here. T...

Psychiatric disorders associated with childbirth: an overview

19 juli 2008

J.L. Klompenhouwer

In modern descriptive classification systems all references to aetiology have been elim-inated. Although this approach has advantages in international communication about psychiatric disorders it also pauperized diagnostic thinking, especially in ...

Seclusion not in seclusion. An ethical reflection on the seclusion of psychiatric patients

A. Liégeois

This paper is the result of the ethical reflection of the working group `Ethics in mental health care' of the Belgian Brothers of Charity. After a clarification of the terms, seclusion is approached from the treatment perspective and experience pe...

Reliability of a semi-structured interview for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale

F. de Jonghe, M. Koeter, H.D.B. Vermeulen

19 juli 2008

We investigated the interrater reliability of a Dutch semi-structured interview for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. An interviewer-observator design was used, and the results were compared with a recent publication. The results suggest that ...

Lacan on psychosis: a particular clinical perspective

K. Libbrecht

Lacan s conceptualization of the clinical structure of psychosis is synonymous with a particular clinical approach of the psychotic patient. Departing from an elaboration of what is meant by a psychoanalytic perspective on psychosis, the close rel...

On the boundary between compulsory and voluntary hospitalization

R. Hoekstra, P.K.J. Ronhaar, R.B. Laport

The dilemma between voluntary and compulsory hospitalization is discussed in the light of the Dutch Bill for involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals (BOPZ). By means of questionnaires we studied the process of admission in a psychiatric ho...

Prevention of aggression

H. Nijman, W. Allertz, M. v.d. Boogaard, E. Chatrou, M. Dassen, W. Fleuren, T. Goertz, C. de Schinkel

18 juni 2004

In Psychiatric Center Welterhof, an aggression-intervention study was carried outbased upon insights from previous research (Nijman et al. 1995). The aim was to reduce the number and severity of the aggressive incidents in a closed acute admission...

Schizophrenia and drastic changes in hairstyle

J. à Campo, M. Merckelbach

The current study evaluated whether drastic changes in hairstyle are associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In a sample of 286 hospitalized psychiatric patients, it was found that manipulation of hairstyle is more frequently seen in schizop...

Patients and non-patients experiencing auditory hallucinations

M.H.A. Pennings, M.A.J. Romme, A.A.J.G.M. Buiks

A study is presented of auditory hallucinations in two groups of psychiatric patients, diagnosed as schizophrenia or dissociative disordered, and other people who despite the experiences live normal and satisfactory lives within society and never ...

Psychoimmunology and HIV infection

C.L. Mulder, P.M.G. Emmelkamp, R.C. van der Mast, R.H. Kauffmann, B. Garssen

Indications that psychosocial factors have an influence on the immune system lead to the study of the effects of psychosocial factors on the course of infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In this article, results are described of stu...

Aprosodia, a little known cause of communicationalproblems

A.F.G Leentjens, S.M. Wielaert, F.W. Wilmink

Aprosodia is a neuropsychological disorder that can constitute part of the symptomatology of a range of neurological and psychiatric diseases. Patients suffering from aprosodia have difficulties recognizing or producing non-verbal aspects of langu...

Patient psychopathology and parental Expressed Emotion

P.M. Dingemans, M.E. Lenior, D.H. Linszen

The relationship between parental EE and patient psychopathology was assessed in a sample of 83 families. Patients with schizophrenia could be distinguished on level of premorbid functioning, but not on symptom severity when using EE-profile score...

The prognosis of treatment success in a (day-)clinical psychiatric setting

A.H. Schene, L. Wouters, B. van Wijngaarden

Recently, there has been a growing need for a reliable prediction of the effect of psychiatric treatment for (partially) hospitalized patients. Prediction research, however, has until now mainly been aimed at the determination of contra-indication...

Taking stock of the Dutch de- institutionalisation

L.J. van der Werf

The policy of the Dutch government is to transfer more than 4000 long-stay psychiatric hospital beds into places in sheltered housing institutions. This goal has not yet been reached. Schellings c.s. (1995) found that this goal can be reached if a...

The Asperger-syndrome in the DSM-IV

J.H. Jessurum, C. Verhagen-Redtenbacher

In this article the DSM-IV criteria for the Asperger-syndrome and autism are exam ined, concluding that as a consequence of the excluding criterium that Asperger cannot be classified if autism can be classified, it is virtually impossible to come ...

The use of an `emergency plan' in the treatment of uni- and bipolar disorder

A. Hofman, A. Honig, A. de Witt

During the course of uni- and bipolar disorder, episodes of relapse alternate with episodes of remission, in which patients can function with relative few symptoms. Many patients who experienced one or more manic and/or depressive episodes, have f...

A bio-psychosocial model for diagnosis and management

W.M.N.J. Buis

A bio-psychosocial model is described: the `DAC-model'. It presents the diagnostic considerations and management in psychiatric practice in a systematic way. This model was originally developed to give psychiatric advice to general practitioners. ...

Case report

A brief screeningstest for the diagnosis posttraumatic stress disorder