Special issue

M. van Elk

background Psychedelics have a strong therapeutic potential for the treatment of biomedical disorders, but the working mechanisms underlying psychedelics are only poorly understood.
aim To discuss different mechanisms underlying the therapeut...

Review article

Epidemiology of hallucinogenic drug use in the Netherlands

M.W. van Laar, C.J.A. van Miltenburg

background In recent years there was a renewed interest in psychedelic substances.
aim To present an overview of what is known about the use of classic psychedelic drugs and ‘atypical’ psychedelic drugs (i.e. entactogen/empathogenic drugs lik...

Review article

Recreative ecstasy use in the Netherlands: use characteristics, health risks and criminality

J. van Amsterdam, W. van den Brink

background Ecstasy (mdma) is used by approximately 370,000 Dutch people yearly, mainly young adults with a good education.
aim To describe ecstasy-related negative health effects, health risks, use profiles and crime based on data from scient...

From Adam to ecstacy; legal use of MDMA in the 1970s and 1980s

G. Blok

background mdma is currently a controversial psychedelic in the Netherlands: it is banned under the Opium Act, but widely used as a recreational drug. According to the government, the normalization of mdma must be combated, others argue in favour...

The rise, fall, and possible rise of LSD

S. Snelders, T. Pieters

background lsd and other hallucinogens or psychedelics have been therapeutically used in psychiatry in the period between the Second World War and the late 1980s. In the past years renewed interest in the medical sciences for research and therape...

Psychedelics in Western culture: unnecessary psychiatrisation of visionary experiences

W.J. Hanegraaff

background Historical research about the use of psychedelics in specific religious contexts can provide rational explanations for visionary experiences that could otherwise be cause to question the mental health of religious actors. Reversely, if...

Three forms of Dionysus: recreational, medical and religious use of ayahuasca

A. van der Braak

background Ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea that is rapidly gaining in popularity. Its effects are, however, widely different in various sets and settings, leading to various imaginings.
aim To distinguish between the recreational, medical and...

Abstract

Ketamine bij de stoornis in alcoholgebruik

A. Neven

Editorial

Hoe gezonde levensjaren winnen?

Kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie

Wekelijks verschijnen er talloze nieuwe publicaties in de wetenschappelijke psychiatrie-vakbladen. Voor de psychiater (i.o.) uit de dagelijkse praktijk maakt het Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie in deze rubriek een selectie van recent verschenen publi...Read more

Jury report publication prize

Juryrapport publicatieprijs artsen in opleiding tot psychiater 2018-2019

B. Bus

Psychiatry and COVID-19

Effecten van coronabeperkende maatregelen in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis

A. Neven, A.E. Bonebakker, E. Noordraven

achtergrond Psychiatrische patiënten ondervinden veel last van de opgelegde beperkingen door de covid-19-pandemie. Mogelijk zouden klinisch opgenomen patiënten meer klachten kunnen krijgen door deze beperkingen, doordat ze geen of minder bezoek k...

Psychiatry and COVID-19

De ambulante ggz tijdens de COVID-19-crisis in Vlaanderen: het kon veel beter

K. Goethals

achtergrond Psychiatrische patiënten die een covid-19-infectie doormaken, zijn onderhevig aan een dubbel stigma. Klinische zorg voor psychiatrische patiënten is fundamenteel verschillend van die voor somatische patiënten, ook wat betreft het risi...

Commentary

Functioneel-neurologisch-symptoomstoornis anno 2020: échte klachten voor neurologie en psychiatrie

Trends in emergency admissions in Amsterdam. Fifteen years of emergency psychiatry in an increasingly crowded city

K.J. Nusselder, J. Zoeteman, B. Buis, N. Hoeve, J. Peen, L. van Grasstek, J. Dekker

background The Temporary Holding Department (toa) is a link between the 7/24 service and the admissions departments. We examined the make-up of the admission cohorts and the use of isolation between 2001 and 2017 in the context of demographic dev...

Original research

Trauma and anorexia nervosa: the association between trauma characteristics, PTSD and the duration of the eating disorder

S.H.W. Mares, M.S. Vroling

background Research into the prevalence of various traumatic events in anorexia nervosa (an) is sparse, with the findings from these studies varying. In addition, the number and age at which traumatic events occurred was not consistently included...

Hysteria laryngea; First thesis in the Netherlands on hysteria (1849)

M. Vermeulen, E. van der Zee

background With the help of textbooks we may trace back the genesis of the concept functional neurological disorder in the Netherlands to the second half of the 19th century.
aim To extend this history to the first half of the 19th century.
...

Housing, natural light and lighting, greenery and mental health

Y. Meesters, K.C.H.J. Smolders, J. Kamphuis, Y.A.W. de Kort

background Studies suggest that light and nature should be seriously considered when building new psychiatric clinics, because of their positive effects on psychiatric recovery.
aim To highlight positive and sustainable effects of light and g...

Thesis article

Thinking inside the box: improving the lifestyle of inpatients with severe mental illness

J. Deenik, D.E. Tenback, E.C.P.M. Tak, I.J.M. Hendriksen, P.N. van Harten

background An unhealthy lifestyle plays an important role in the substantially reduced life-expectancy of inpatients with severe mental illness (smi). However, there is a lack of evidence on the long-term effectiveness and implementation of lifes...

Thesis article

Addiction and self-control: A three-layered model to support recovery

A. Snoek

background Loss of self-control in addiction is often hard to understand. addictive behaviour has both voluntary and involuntary aspects. A better understanding of how people with addiction lose control over their lives gives more options for rec...

Clinical practice

Clinical zoanthropy: a woman with the rare delusion of being an animal

A. Beckers, R. van Buggenhout, E. Vrieze

Clinical zoanthropy, or the conviction of having turned into an animal, is a rare delusion. There are different views about its pathogenesis. This delusion can occur with an underlying psychiatric disorder, but it can also be secondary to struct...

Abstract

Effecten en bijwerkingen van 32 orale antipsychotica: een systematisch overzicht en netwerkmeta-analyse

C.A.J. Baas, S.K. Spoelstra, H. Knegtering

Dutch-Flemish research

Kan psychotherapie voor PTSS veranderingen van het DNA herstellen?

C.H. Vinkers, E. Geuze, M.P.M. Boks

Dutch-Flemish research

Hogere sessiefrequentie effectiever bij psychotherapie voor depressie