["If I were the department head in this case..."--interventional interview with patients and co-workers of a psychiatric department].

abstract：:Two perspectives of mental health care in Leipzig are outlined. Critical aspects of deinstitutionalization are discussed from the point of view of an office-based Nervenarzt (neurologist and psychiatrist). The limitations of office-based practice in providing care for the severely mentally ill (SMI) are described, i.e...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Richter RA,Nollau M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A systematic review on empirical results of studies that assess Quality of Life (QoL) in schizophrenic patients. METHOD:A systematic overview of the literature is provided with focus on schizophrenic patients under deprived living conditions. RESULTS:No consistent relationships are found between objective l...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten years ago an extensive behaviour therapy programme for the treatment of young opiate addicts was developed and tested, and shown through follow-ups extending over a period of two years to be successful. Some of the most important behaviour therapy procedures are introduced. A distinction is made between traditiona...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Vollmer H

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mobile child and youth psychiatric service is presented that concerned with the mental health care of a county with a population of 239,000 inhabitants. This kind of service was conceived especially to meet the demands of rural regions which are high, as empirical investigations about administrative and real prevale...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Remschmidt H,Walter R,Warnke A

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factitious disorders have been reported in 0.5 - 1 % of general hospital patients. It often takes several years until the disorder is detected. During this period, enormous health care cost can arise not least out of iatrogenic self-induced mutilations and related secondary somatic complications. Apart from surgeons a...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rothenhäusler HB,Kapfhammer HP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 48-year-old female whom we examined for legal culpability. The proband was taking the dopamine agonist pramipexole as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. In temporal association, she had committed numerous shoplifting offences.While pathological gambling, excessive shopping and hypersexuality ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Clemm von Hohenberg C,Dreßing H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Shared decision-making during the course of treatment is important for people with severe mental illness. However, there is still insufficient knowledge about how people with mental illness view decisions, what kind of decisions are made and how patients experience and perceive the process of participation in...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Loos S,Neumann P,Arnold K,Slade M,Fiorillo A,Krogsgaard Bording M,Ivanka T,Kawohl W,Puschner B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report about existing evidence of effectiveness of home treatment for severely mentally ill adults and implementation in Germany. METHODS:Systematic electronic and manual literature search. RESULTS:Compared to standard care, home treatment was equally or more efficacious with respect to general state of ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Gühne U,Weinmann S,Arnold K,Atav ES,Becker T,Riedel-Heller S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The importance of online counselling for many areas of health care has been increasing over the last years. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic research on the quality and specifics of the therapeutic intervention. METHODS:n = 1056 responses written by online counsellors between 12 / 2007 and 11 / 20...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wesemann D,Fritsch S,Kündiger C,Grunwald M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germany, in comparison to other countries, provides a good quality of services to distinct groups of patients. But as far as total expenditure for mental health services is concerned, it belongs to the top European states. The differentiation of services since the Expert Commission to the parliament (1975) was associa...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kunze H,Schepker R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Findings about the association between working alliance and therapy outcome in Internet-based treatments are contradictory. Evidence for the working alliance in Internet-based treatment for Binge Eating Disorder is still missing and can help to elucidate this question. METHODS AND RESULTS:In an Internet-base...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Dölemeyer R,Klinitzke G,Steinig J,Wagner B,Kersting A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies [5,6] on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among migrants describe a higher rate of schizophrenic disorders. Other studies [2,3] as well as DSM-IV [1] point out that affective disorders with psychotic symptoms can be misdiagnosed as schizophrenic or schizoaffective disorders. We report on a patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lambert M,Haasen C,Halilovic H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim is to investigate the association between sociodemographic characteristics and the interactive health literacy and the time to treatment of social anxiety disorder. METHODS:An online survey of N = 311 patients was carried out (response rate 54.1 %). Descriptive statistical analysis and a logistic regressio...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Ernstmann N,Heuser C,Halbach S,Wegener I,Rambau S,Forstner AJ,Schumacher J,Mücke M,Geiser F,Conrad R

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the evaluation of case reports of 15 inpatients treated between 1971 and 1986 who had been suffering from persistent alcoholic jealousy mania for at least three years, the psychopathological characteristics of this disease are outlined to define two types of courses of the disturbance: on the one hand, the mo...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Soyka M,Sass H,Völcker A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In Germany, outpatient care is provided exclusively by physicians in private practice. This privilege is very strictly observed, with only a few exceptions. While psychiatric hospitals are routinely permitted to establish outpatient clinics, psychiatric departments of general hospitals, even if they serve a c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Böcker FM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philippe Pinel is generally regarded as the leading con-founder of scientific psychiatry. His "chain liberation" of the insane is in this context often seen as breakbrough to an human conception of psychiatry. This article describes in two parts the historical backgrounds of Pinels activities and analyses the discipli...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kohl F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospectively 20% of more than 200 patients with myasthenia gravis reported being initially diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder. Younger women are significantly most at risk of a psychiatric misdiagnosis whereas men are more often subject to somatic misdiagnoses. The sample's mean duration of the disease was ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rohr W

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community care and sectorisation, specialisation and differentiation, integration of psychiatric and other medical services, crises intervention and emergency psychiatry--and patient's choice--are basic issues of the organisation of psychiatric services. They are discussed and evaluated in respect of the Region of Man...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Häfner H,Rössler W,Häfner-Ranabauer W

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinstitutionalization (DI) of most of the chronic long-stay patients has taken place in the last decades in Germany. However, a "residual" group of patients often remains in psychiatric hospitals, with an ongoing controversy on an appropriate type of their care (community based vs. hospital). Clinical, functional and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Ehlers F,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess and compare the validity of the German 15-item version and shortened versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) for early detection of depression in nursing home residents with mild to moderate cognitive impairment (MMSE ≥ 15). METHODS:Data from 92 patients were analysed. The Structural Clini...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Allgaier AK,Kramer D,Mergl R,Fejtkova S,Hegerl U

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Project HOpeS aims to establish a special support service for students with mental health problems in Hamburg, Germany, modelled on a programme designed by the university of Münster. Students with mental health problems have to cope with reduced cognitive productivity, damaged self-confidence, stigmatisation, lack of ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Biermann A,Giesen AD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there were multiple initiatives to modify course and outcome of schizophrenia by optimizing present psychopharmacologic strategies many unsolved problems still exist. There is no doubt that first generation antipsychotics reduce positive symptoms of psychosis but the impact on negative symptoms or disturbance...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Messer T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Is it necessary to understand your vis a vis or is it enough to meet, to get in touch? Awareness of the different perception of reality is important. INTERINDIVIDUELL: Defined as basic requirements for getting in touch, mutual modelling and interchange were "Knowing your own world", "Being curious about th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Klug G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heinrich von Kleist's life was shaken repeatedly by negative life-events, finally he committed suicide in his last life-crisis (1811). His work was mostly understood as descriptions of negative life-events and failed-being. In this article it will be shown that in at least two "crises" Kleist's work can be understood ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schlimme J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:ECT is an effective and safe therapy with fast response for depressive disorders. Nevertheless it's mostly used for therapy resistance. In antidepressive treatments fast response may be related with antidepressive efficacy. We studied, if earlier ECT could result in a shorter hospital stay period after the tr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schwerthöffer D,Wolf F,Pitschel-Walz G,Bäuml J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the compelling evidence for a strong heritability of schizophrenia, the aetiology and genetic underpinnings of this disabling disease still remain unclear. Reasonable explanations for current problems in identifying candidate genes for schizophrenia are the complexity of its genetic background as well as the h...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Opgen-Rhein C,Neuhaus A,Urbanek C,Dettling M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1939, Robert Faris and Warren Dunham published their pioneering work on "Mental disorders in urban areas". They investigated the distribution of mental disorders in Chicago. In the following decades, a number of studies using a similar design were carried out in various cities in the United States and in Europe, wh...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Riedel-Heller SG,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While lots of projects focus on "stigmatization by others" in people with mental diseases, the problem of "self-stigmatization" is rarely considered in their treatment.Thus, the program "Stigma Management" aims on the conception of a therapeutic manual concerning self-stigmatization. As experts on their own, ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schenner M,Kohlbauer D,Stippler-Korp M,Meise U,Günther V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Folie à deux describes a rare psychiatric disorder of mostly closely related persons. The main feature of this disease is the unconditional adoption of the delusions of the primarily diseased person by the second person. This disturbance most frequently originates from a paranoid schizophrenia. METHOD:Our...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Roth C,Stüwe R,Böger A,Serafin S,Franz M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of flupentixol and risperidone were compared in a randomized double-blind study in 153 chronic schizophrenic patients. Flupentixol showed to be not inferior to risperidone concerning schizophrenic negative symptoms at week 8, 16 and 24. Positive symptoms and general psychopathology improved comparably, to...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Philipp M,Lesch OM,Schmauss M,Dose M,Glaser T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00