Themanummers

Het wetsontwerp BOPZ

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...

Het 'wat' in de psychiatrische epidemiologie

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...

Neurochemische aspecten van kinderlijk autisme

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...

Nazorg bij functionele niet-affectieve psychosen: ontwikkelingen in de samenwerking binnen de GGZ

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...

Depressie en de ouder wordende mens

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...

Ouderdom komt met vergeten — differentieel diagnostische overpeinzingen

J.Ph. Hes

In het voorafgaande hebben we verschillende aspecten belicht van het onderzoek van het geheugen en stil gestaan bij de verschillende benaderingen. Het is niet toevallig dat op de oude dag zowel geheugenstoornissen als slaapstoornissen worden aange...

Beschermd wonen als psychiatrische en welzijnszorg; verslag van een inventariserend landelijk onderzoek

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...

Het liquoronderzoek in de psychiatrische diagnostiek

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

Aan de hand van de literatuur wordt de waarde van de liquordiagnostiek binnen de psychiatrische diagnostiek besproken. Dit levert een beslisschema op. Het afwegen van indicaties en contra-indicaties blijft evenwel een patiëntgebonden zaak die nooi...

De relatie tussen Freud en 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 ...

Elektroshock: schadelijke effecten

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...

Elektroshocktherapie en geheugen

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...

De Nederlandse vertaling van de Present State Examination 9e editie

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...

De Nederlandse vertaling van de Present State Examination 9e editie

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 ...

De psychiatrische patiënt op weg naar het recht?

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 ...

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...

Endorfinen en schizofrenie: een overzicht

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...

Extramurale geestelijke gezondheidszorg in een stedelijke gemeente: de bijdragen van poliklinieken, de RIAGG en het CAD

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...

Ontslagen uit het psychiatrisch ziekenhuis

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...

'Inzichtgeven of steunen'

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 de kinderpsychiatrie

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...

Een bloeiende psychiatrie die niet meer in gevaar is

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...

Profiel van 24-uurs psychiatrische eerste hulp

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...

Seksuele terminologie en beleving: over woorden en waarden, weten en wensen

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 ...

Aspecten van ziektebeleving en psychotherapie in een niet-westerse cultuur

J.W. Hummelen

The individual person in many non-western cultures experiences himself in connection with the world around him. Illness is experencied as a disturbance of the union with the social, natural and supernatural world. Psychotherapy has in view to affe...