Special issue

History and the subject as pertaining to the definition of the psychiatric field

ISSUE 2000/9

H. van Hoorde

Reviewing the old topic of the fundamental validity of psychiatry, the author seeks to define the psychiatric field from its description in the modern medical practice. Appreciation of the necessity of psychoanalytic theory leads to a definition i...

The benefit of the doubt

ISSUE 2000/9

J.K. Mokkenstorm

The psychoanalytical model of divergent conflict can readily be applied to a number of intrapsychic conflicts that psychiatrists frequently encounter in their patients, and in particular to ambivalence towards treatment. Divergent conflicts are ch...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Beschouwingen over paternalisme en autonomie in de psychiatrie'

Identiteit

Polypharmacy and irrational combinations of psychotropics in chronic inpatients

C.M. Sterrenburg-van de Nieuwegiessen, A.J.M. Loonen, J.B. Bakker

background In chronic inpatients polypharmacy is common and sometimes the combinations of psychotropics are irrational from a theoretical point of view.
aims Registration of polypharmacy and irrational combinations in clinical practice.
methods In...

Essay

Scientific clinical research in psychiatry: Ethical and legal aspects

W.A. Nolen, D.P. Engberts

Scientific clinical research in psychiatry has to fulfil the same ethical and legal requirements as research in somatic medicine: studies have to be valid; studied subjects have to give informed consent; and studies have to be approved by an inves...

State-of-the-art-article

Neurosexuology and sexual psychopharmacology

M.D. Waldinger, M.W. Hengeveld

background During the last decade the developments in neuroscience have contributed to the development of sexual psychopharmacology.
aims Evaluation of the current state of neurosexuology and sexual psychopharmacology.
methods The contents of this...

Review article

The influence of white matter lesions on geriatric depressions

F.B. van der Wurff, A.T.F. Beekman, D.J. Veltman, W.J.G. Hoogendijk, Ph. Scheltens, H.C. Weinstein

background White matter lesions are recognisable as hyperintense lesions on Magnetic Resonance Imaging. These white matter lesions occur regularly in depressed elderly, especially in those with a late-onset depression. However, the relevance of wh...

The aetiology of depression in the elderly: The vascular depression hypothesis

T.J. Heeren

Current aetiological research in late-life psychiatric disorders places again particular emphasis on the role of ischemic injury to the brain. Primarily based upon Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mri) findings several researchers have proposed the con...

Case report

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (emdr) as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder

J. van Trier

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (emdr) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. A case study presents a man who had been trapped in his car under water. The negative cognition: I'm lost, is transformed in: I'll co...

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'Hoe bewaken we de verwevenheid van de biologische, psychologische en sociale factoren?'

Reactie op 'ingezonden' van Kooij, Buitelaar en Van Tilburg methylfenidaat voorschrijft.

M. Gorissen, A. Grijpma

Letter to the editor

Reactie op 'De toekomst van de psychiatrische centra'

Ongelijkheden en hun berekenbaarheid

Psychotherapy and its future in the psychiatric field: An attempt for integration of new insights

ISSUE 2000/7

M.G.J. Schmeets, A.C. van Reekum

Psychotherapy and its effectiveness are under attack. It seems that psychiatry gradually turns its back on it. Recent developments in many fields of research, among which genetics, however, seem to give significant support for the preservation of ...

Essay

Het raadselachtige huilen van Charles Darwin

ISSUE 2000/7

G.J. van der Ploeg

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Darwin, C. De autobiografie van Charles Darwin. De oorspronkelijke versie. Vertaling Fieke Lakmaker. Nieuwezijds 2000, 160 p., isbn 90 5712 080 1, ƒ 39,90.
Darwin, C. Het uitdrukken van emoties bij mens en dier. Vertaling Fieke La...

Internet-artikel

Internet als afdelingsfolder voor een afdeling kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie

Reactie op Grijpma en Gorissen betreffende de discussie naar aanleiding van 'Voorstel voor diagnostiek en behandeling van aandachtstekortstoornis met hyperactiviteit (adhd) op volwassen leeftijd' in Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie 1999/6

ISSUE 2000/7

J.J.S. Kooij, J.K. Buitelaar, W. van Tilburg

Editorial

Evidencebased gevalsbeschrijvingen

Assessment of dangerousness and best interest

P.J.A. van Panhuis, P.M.A.J. Dingemans

background Compulsory admission in a psychiatric hospital is since 1970 in the Netherlands in acute conditions only possible when there exists dangerousness for the person himself or his surroundings. Since 1982 also in not acute situations the 'b...

Essay

Autonomy in psychiatry

G.A.M. Widdershoven, R.L.P. Berghmans, A.C. Molewijk

The ethical principle of respect for the autonomy of the patient has acquired an important place in psychiatric care. Within the dominant rights discourse this autonomy principle is onesidedly filled in from a negative concept of liberty: the prot...

Review article

Combination of pharmacologic treatment and psychotherapy in depression

M.B.J. Blom, K. Jonker, P.M.J. Haffmans, Ph. Spinhoven

background Treatment of depressed outpatients with a combination of psychotherapy and medication could have important advantages.
aims The authors hope to answer the question if combination therapy is the most effective treatment for depressed out...

Review article

Guidelines for clinical assessment of dsm-iv personality disorders

R. Verheul, W. van den Brink, Ph. Spinhoven, R. Haringsma

background In general, clinical diagnoses of personality disorders lack sufficient reliability and validity. There is currently no consensus about the most appropriate method for the clinical assessment of dsm-iv personality disorders.
aims Guidel...

Cochrane-speak: An introduction