abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the context of the current discussion of integrating rehabilitative elements into the (acute) treatment of patients with mental disorders, it is investigated what rehabilitative elements actually are and whether these elements are considered in existing guidelines. METHODS/RESULTS:An expert-based consensu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Watzke B,Büscher C,Koch U,Schulz H

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:With changed consumer behaviour in the drug scene the psychiatric complications with the derivates of amphetamine increase. In some regions methamphetamin is particularly common. Flashbacks, which can be triggered by psychosocial stress, as well as the age of the usually young patients lead to the differentia...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Härtel-Petri R,Rodler R,Schmeisser U,Steinmann J,Wolfersdorf M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:According to the increasing number of foreign psychiatric patients in the German society, the influence of their linguistic integration on treatment characteristics is to be investigated. METHODS:With criteria of nationality and German language skills, data of 6151 in-patients was collected and statistically...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Künzler N,Garcia-Brand E,Schmauss M,Messer T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:An overview on neurobiological findings of violence is given: We present 1. neurochemical findings, 2. genetical aspects, 3. neuroanatomical correlates and 4. a functional network of violence. Even if specific neurobiological findings have not been found, impulsive violence is closely linked to ser...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller JL,Sommer M,Weber T,Hajak G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:In this paper we report about the situation of psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment in Bavarian state mental hospitals, based on data coming from surveys in those hospitals. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:22 State mental hospitals in Bavaria have 1217 beds for acute psychotherapy, proofed on the basis of...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Klein HE,Dose M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Attachment theory yields empirical constructs for development of human self, personality and cognition. Insecure attachment strategies were associated with various psychiatric disorders. METHOD:We investigated distribution of attachment styles in 368 adult alcoholics of German descent with or without pers...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Johann M,Laufkötter R,Lange K,Wodarz N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the rare case of a woman first diagnosed with Huntington's disease at the age of 86. She was first seen at our hospital in 1999 for evaluation of dementia. Prior to her hospitalization, she had been treated with Melperone for restlessness. There was no essential psychopathology other than mild dementia (MMSE 2...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：: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：:Changes in the provision of psychiatric services within the last decennials are probably best understood if the impact of national socialism on clinical psychiatry is regarded. Many psychiatrists took part in the "Aktion T4" the organised killing of their patients, at least they did not resist campaigns directed to ki...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schaub R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The high rank of social work in context with psychiatric treatment of in-patients is generally accepted. The value of social work and here especially the visit at home by the social worker has hardly been examined up to now. METHOD:In the article first of all the method of visits at home is presented. Furthe...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Banger M,Wellnitz M,Gastpar M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:According to results of the latest research, the state of knowledge of the German population regarding depressive disorders has improved during the last years. The question arises to what extent the print media have contributed to this development. METHOD:All editions of three German dailies--Sueddeutsche Ze...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kroll M,Dietrich S,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the rare case of a 19-year old man, first diagnosed with schizophrenia but finally shown to have subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). Initial symptoms were hallucinations and negative symptoms until the onset of a seizure. Changes in the CSF, MRI, EEG and increasing neurological symptoms led to the co...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of antidepressants on psychomotor function related to car driving abilities. METHOD: Depressive inpatients (n = 64) were investigated under steady state plasma level conditions. Data were collected with the ART 90 (Act and React Testsystem) measuring vis...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Brunnauer A,Laux G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of 1.1.2002 a new documentation system (AmBADO) has been introduced to the out-patient departments of all Bavarian psychiatric clinics. With the use of this new system, practitioners are for the first time allowed to collect data concerning structure, process, and outcome parameters in this field of care. A pilot s...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Welschehold M,Jordan A,Berger W

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-patient suicide research in Germany during the 70 (th) and 80 (th) years of the last century found an overall increase of in-patient suicides in psychiatric hospitals. Nowadays, more differentiated discussions of the problem are recommended. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Keller F,Vogl R,Vogel R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Psychopathy" describes a type of personality disorder characterized by a dysregulation of emotion processing. Social behaviour, emotion regulation and competency are of particular relevance in forensic psychiatry. Structural-morphological and functional imaging studies prove that emotion regulation, aggressive-impuls...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller JL,Schuierer G,Marienhagen J,Putzhammer A,Klein HE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase of intoxications in persons using psychoactive plants and mushrooms can be observed. Mainly adolescents are experimenting with this group of plants for its hallucinogenic effects and easy and cheap availability. A case of a toxic psychosis with hallucinations, disturbances of orientation and psychomotoric ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Göpel C,Maras A,Schmidt MH

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with parkinson's disease and depression. Her symptoms included episodes of flushing, palpitations and hypertension, giving rise to the suspicion of the existence of a phaeochromocytoma. The levels of adrenaline and vanillymandelic acid in the urine were moderately elevated, th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2003-05-01 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

abstract：:Patients are mostly passive utilizer of the health-care-system. They are confronted with a supply of medical service and they are allowed to show their satisfaction with it retrospectively. Our medical system has in future to develop itself from an effective perspective to an utilizer orientated medicine. Orientation ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Fleischmann H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors give an actual survey about suicides and suicide rates in Germany, Bavaria and Upper Frankonia. Their special interest are significant trends in the last years. These trends will be shown and shortly described. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mauerer C,Wolfersdorf M,Keller F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a putative functional polymorphism (-141C Ins/Del) in the 5'-flanking region of the dopamine D2 receptor was found. An association of the Ins allele with schizophrenia has been described in a Japanese sample. In the present study this association was examined in a German schizophrenia patient population. In ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rohrmeier T,Putzhammer A,Sartor H,Knapp M,Albus M,Borrmann-Hassenbach M,Lichtermann D,Wildenauer D,Schwab S,Maier W,Klein HE,Eichhammer P

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:We present the legislation of the compulsory admission and treatment of mentally ill persons in the Swiss canton of Basle-City. We inquired retrospectively the requests of the clinic and the appointed time given by the psychiatric court of appeal in the year 2000. With 320 compulsory admissions there were 118 appeals....

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Eichhorn M,Zimmermann R,Kräuchi K,Finzen A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is a hereditary and progressive disease of the central nervous system. Sudden and irregular hyperkinesias are prominent. Psychopathological findings are very frequent and often proceed the decline of motor functions for years. Almost all the patients develop a dementia in later stages of the illne...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Weimer E,Ries S,Tost H,Braus DF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented document discusses the problems of psychological/psychiatric and emergency long term users. The author, director of the East Berlin Crisis Centre, describes the long-term patient phenomenon from different perspectives. He develops ideas to change the concept of acute intervention. The crisis intervention...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neumann O

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:In the controversy about severely chronic mental patients, who still reside in the psychiatric hospital after decades of deinstitutionalization, their quality of life (QoL) has become a main topic. On the basis of a critique of the dominant, mere standardized approach to QoL this method is compared with a qualitative ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-09-01 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:Part II of this study will explore more accurately, how caregivers of schizophrenic patients perceive the financial burdens of the disease. METHOD:42 In-depth-interviews with parents and spouses of schizophrenic patients were analysed using a qualitative-interpretative technique. RESULTS:When talking about ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jungbauer J,Mory C,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Theoretical background and first results of a vocational rehabilitation program for unemployed persons with chronic psychiatric disabilities will be presented. The aim of the program is job-placement in the regular labour market. METHODS:After a 3-month preparatory period the participants were given the poss...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Waschkowski H,Bailer J,Fischer S,Lederle K

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：UNLABELLED:The German Adaptation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale: An Instrument for Patients' Satisfaction with Mental Health Care. AIM:Measuring effectiveness and quality of care became an important topic in psychiatry. Considering that objective criteria were not sufficient in the past, the subjective persp...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mory C,Matschinger H,Roick C,Kilian R,Bernert S,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Drop-outs, respectively unplanned discharges in psychiatric therapy are often explained by so-called lack of insight into the disease or difficult circumstances of admission. We were interested in the question how often drop outs are noticed in a voluntarily day clinic setting where nearly all psychiatric dis...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Garlipp P,Seidler KP,Amini K,Machleidt W,Haltenhof H

更新日期：2001-09-01 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:How can patients and staff participate in redesigning psychiatric procedures through survey research? METHODS:Using interviews with circular-hypothetical questioning, 58 patients and 30 staff members of a psychiatric department of a general hospital were interviewed about their preferences for change and con...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Scheidt P,Schweitzer J,Maischein L,Tebbe B,Hirschenberger N,Enssle M,Krause U,Voigtländer W

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the end of the 1990s the Westfälische Klinik Lengerich has offered an inpatient psychiatric treatment of an psychiatric ill parent--combined with a pedagogic attendance of the child taken along. The following article describes our experience in that matter, from a ward concentrated on psychotherapy. In selected ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Brandes U,Held E,Brümmer-Hesters M,Gerdes C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primarily from the perspective of psychopharmacology, schizophrenic symptomatology has recently been dichotomized into "plus" and "minus" symptoms, although the role of cognitive dysfunctions has been regarded as particularly important for the diagnosis since the time of Eugen Bleuler. Many studies show that schizophr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Sachs G,Katschnig H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the eating behaviour, quality of life and changes in life style in 46 female patients with eating disorders, discharged from our psychosomatic unit at least six month ago. METHODS:Patients meeting the criteria for DSM-IV anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa completed the "Lancashire Quality of Life ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Danzl C,Kemmler G,Gottwald E,Mangweth B,Kinzl J,Biebl W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00