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The Addiction Severity Index: a multidimensional severity list for addiction treatment

V.M. Hendriks, C.W. van der Meer, C.D. Kaplan, J. van Limbeek, P.J. Geerlings

The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a multidimensional interview, developed in the United States to assess the severity of problems in several areas, commonly associated with addiction. The ASI was translated into Dutch and adapted. The Dutch ve...

Panic disorder: a compendious review

R. Kahn, H.M. van Praag

Probably more than 200.000 Dutchmen suffer from panic disorder, characterized by short attacks of severe anxiety and accompanying somatic symptoms. The affection often is complicated by avoiding behaviour called agoraphobia. Panic attacks can be t...

Clinical explorations in patients with negative symptoms

T. Kuipers, M. Kuilman, B Schmand

Negative symptoms as such are etiologically neutral, however considering them as a group of symptoms in a given context of personality, type of psychotic disease, coping with the disease and reactions of others to the symptoms, enables the clinici...

Personality disorders and alcoholism

G.E. Schaap, H. Land, J.C. van de Velde

There has been a renaissance in the study of the personality disorders this past decade. Promising new theories, significant advances in the defining criteria, in diagnosis and therapy, the existence of a special axis in DSM-III-(R) for these diso...

Day-treatment in England and Wales.

F.P.E. van Hest, R.J. Wolters

Thirty years ago, British psychiatry served as a model for the development of day-treatment in The Netherlands. The authors, both working in day-hospitals of the psychiatric hospital `Wolfheze', were enabled to follow the development of day-treatm...

Dysphrenic migraine and migraine psychosis: a review and a case

M.D. Waldinger

Migraine psychosis is the most severe form of dysphrenic migraine. Symptomatology and a recently proposed classification are described.

Attention is payed to the associated disturbances of consciousness and memory. A case of migraine psychosis...

The use of sexually anatomically correct dolls in cases of child sexual abuse

P.M. Dingemans

This article reviews the literature on sexually anatomically correct dolls. Evaluation of the research literature shows that the use of the dolls is not acceptable from a scientific point of view at this point. Further development of the doll inte...

The manifestation of psychosocial problems in the third life phase related to loss of control

B. van der Zee

Changes in the environment and in the functioning of the older person can lead to the deterioration of the ability to control that environment. Problematical behaviour in the third life phase can partly be seen as a strategy to restore this demini...

`Training in Community Living': an alternative to the psychiatric hospital?

G. Pieters

`Training in Community Living' is a well-researched alternative to the mental hospital. Its positive results have been replicated at five different sites. The program is the keystone element in a comprehensive system of care for the mentally ill i...

The reconciliation between psychiatry and phenomenology

K. Melis

Psychology `borrowed' her methodology from the science of the physics. But with that specific application she disregards her `object' of study. Prior to all scientific requirements is that this object indicates the applicated method. This demand c...

Decisions about and from chronic mental patients

H. van Andel

In this article the data have been described of a second investigation in regard to chronic mental patients about their decisions to stay in a psychiatric hospital for ever or for a certain time. The decisions of their psychiatrists and nurses to ...

Thiamine supplementation in alcohol abusers.

F.A.M. Klijn, E. van Rooijen

A review of the literature is presented on the relation between alcohol abuse, thiamine deficiency and the acute thiamine deficiency-syndromes.

Therefrom a strategy results for thiamine supplementation in alcohol abusers, admitted to hospital,...

A revised Dutch version of the Zung-scale as a measure of trait-depression

J. Mook, W.Chr. Kleijn, H.M. van der Ploeg

In this article research is reported on the measurement of dispositional depression with the Zung-scale. After a short introduction to the state-trait conception of depression, a revision of Dutch versions of the Zung-scale is described. Results a...

Psychiatric impression from Morocco

P.M. Rijnierse

The author describes his impression from a visit to the psychiatric centre of Agadir, Morocco. The low level of services functions within a multicultural society.

Psychiatric disorders among elderly in a Dutch town; results of a community survey

A. Bosma

Health policy for the elderly needs information about the health condition of this population. For providing the necessary epidemiological data a health survey on the local level was set up. In this survey mental health counted as a crucial variab...

Strategic management in a psychiatric hospital

F.A.M. Kortmann

Most workers in a psychiatric hospital are directly engaged in cure and care of patients. They have their own professional responsibilities. Strategic hospital management is a primary task for directors and heads of the departments. It is importan...

The dimensional nature of psychosis

R.J. van den Bosch, F. Luteyn

Psychoticism is the dimensional alternative to the categorical concept of psychosis. In this study we examined this psychoticism dimension and its validity. Psychotic and nonpsychotic patients received various self-rating scales measuring psychoti...

The usefulness of the diagnosis borderline

J.W. Hummelen

The meaning of the diagnosis borderline depends on which borderline-concept is used (DSM-III, Gunderson and Kernberg). This article discusses how factors, such as model of treatment, kind of population and setting, influence the diagnostic process...

Personality disorders; concepts, operationalizations and research strategies

W. van den Brink

Personality pathology and personality disorder are ambiguous psychopathologic concepts, which represent a wide range of theoretical notions, both taxonomic and with regard to the underlying personality model. These theoretical notions are of param...

On the efficacy of high doses neuroleptic treatments in chronic and therapy resistant schizophrenia

C.M.J. de Maar-van Litsenburg, C.J. Slooff, J. Korf, J.W. Louwerens

To determine the effectiveness of high dose neuroleptic treatment (more than 1500 equivalents of chlorpromazine) in chronic and therapy resistant schizophrenic patients all relevant investigations and three reviews were studied.

In four out of...

The `Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie' and psychiatry

H.G.M. Rooijmans, A.M. van Hemert

In psychiatry the interest in empirical research has increased in the last decades. For the `Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie' it was assessed whether this development was reflected in a change in the type of publications. All papers that were publish...

Attitudes of longstay psychiatric patients with regard to discharge

M.J. Haveman, N.W. Poelijoe

In an are with dehospitalization as a central theme of `de jure' health policy little is known about patients' attitudes with regard to their actual living condition, discharge and alternative care. In this respect three key questions were tackled...

Where is God in psychiatry? H.C. Rümke in the Theological-Psychiatric Association, 31-10-1946

ISSUE 1990/1

J.A. van Belzen

The article presents parts of an unpublished text by H.C. Rümke (1893-1967) and of the report of the discussion of it in the Theological-Psychiatric Association. The genesis of this Association is briefly described. In a historic review Rümke indi...

Psychiatry and the sexual offender

ISSUE 1990/1