abstract：:Since the 1980's psychiatric care in Spain changed considerably (Reforma psiquiátrica española). In the course of this reform, many positive results were achieved. An extensive community network of mental health centres was build up which resulted in the majority of psychiatric patients being integrated in the Spanish...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Pedrosa Gil F,Luderer HJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHO and WPA recently inaugurated worldwide "anti-stigma-campaigns". On this background the exploration discrimination of against the mentally ill of the term stigma and its meaning is useful. Stigma dates from ancient Greece and was meant to be a visible sign of disgrace. Today stigma and stigma management are sociolo...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Finzen A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning of health care is primarily an administrative task. Service research supports the health administration in this task by supplying empirical data to objectify the need for care and ways to cater for that need. In this, service research on the one hand draws on descriptive and analytical data of epidemiolog...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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:This study investigates the effects of probationary work for psychiatric patients in community-based small businesses during their inpatient or day care. METHODS:Patients were evaluated for working capacity, psychopathology, motivation for work and patient satisfaction (n = 69). RESULTS:The results confirm ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Längle G,Köster M,Mayenberger M,Günthner A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most famous patients in the psychiatric hospital Jena. Between 1889 and 1890, Otto Binswanger und Theodor Ziehen treated the progressive paralysis of Friedrich Nietzsche whose 100th anniversary of death is on 25th August 2000. After Nietzsche's death, an animated disc...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wilkes J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a standardized assessment-procedure for the so-called "Gemeindepsychiatrische Verbünde" in Germany (GPV-Documentation), which are regional combines of community-based mental health care services. It is the first procedure in Germany which puts data on psychiatric care offers, needs for care and se...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Bullenkamp J,Alscher I,Wolf I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study is the evaluation of essential characteristics of patients who entered the sheltered group homes of the Psychosozialen Dienst (PSD) in the city of Vienna after the establishment of sectorized psychiatric out-patient care facilities. METHOD:Eighty patients who lived in these group homes ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidl F,Berghofer G,Lang A,Rudas S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:This study reflects the labour-situation of 67 DSM-III schizophrenic outpatients in an 8-year follow-up. About 50% of the patients had less than 20 hours of work a week on the average--most of them in work therapy or sheltered work-places. Many of them changed their location of work. Patients with an initially good pr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mönking HS,Buchkremer G,Hornung WP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Evaluations of clozapine treatment by relatives of schizophrenic patients were assessed as part of an exploratory study and compared with the patients' own assessment. METHOD:46 relatives of individuals suffering from schizophrenia were questioned by means of a problem-centred interview. RESULTS:In addition to th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Angermeyer MC,Boitz K,Löffler W,Müller P,Priebe S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evaluating the establishment of social psychiatry services (SPS) in Saxony was part of a public health research project. METHOD:One of the variables in a specifically designed assessment instrument--used in 8 SPS during the period 08/95-01/97--was the retrospective statement concerning changes in the client's ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kallert TW,Leisse M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the non-cognitive symptoms in 153 consecutive dementia patients admitted to our psychiatric ward or seen at the gerontopsychiatric ambulance and Memory Clinic. METHODS:We used the Global Deterioration Scale, the Hachinski Ischaemia Score, the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, and th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rainer M,Mucke HA,Masching A,Haushofer M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In a cross-sectional study in 79 schizophrenic patients the quality of life (QOL) of a group of community-based patients under supervision of an outpatient unit (n = 47) and a group of long-stay patients in an inpatient rehabilitation centre in the same area (n = 32) was compared. METHODS:The patients' QOL w...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kemmler G,Meise U,Tasser A,Liensberger D,Schifferle I,Braitenberg M,Schwitzer J,Hinterhuber H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Contrary to in-patient psychiatric care, quality assurance in the area of psychiatrists in outpatient practice is hardly in use. METHODS:Neuroleptic therapy regarding the following quality criteria was examined for 6 months in an outpatient psychiatric practice: choice of neuroleptics, dosage and combination o...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haberfellner EM,Rittmannsberger H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Records of violent behaviour and its sequels gain increasing interest as a matter of quality assurance. The paper presents scales and instruments applied in psychiatric institutions until now. While problems of reliability are solved sufficiently, there are major problems of validity in the measurement of violence. To...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Steinert T,Gebhardt RP

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:The present case study is a report on computer-based training approach in a male patient suffering from the de-Grouchy syndrome I (with a characteristic chromosomal deletion pattern), who along with psychotic symptoms displayed neuropsychological deficits. Participating in a well-established intervention programme aim...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Olbrich R,Wöhrle C,Cohen S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocational rehabilitation of mentally ill patients is now focused outside the psychiatric hospital. Three types of programmes play a major role: outpatient work therapy programmes at psychiatric hospitals, jobs in (partly) sheltered employment facilities as in companies specially adapted for employing mentally ill per...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Reker T,Eikelmann B,Schonauer K,Folkerts H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia with delusions of infestation and of grandeur type, developed polydipsia in the course of his illness which ended up in acute life-threatening water intoxication. Apart from somatic causes like SIADH, which are discussed in literature, water-intoxication could psychodynami...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Frei A,Kolb C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite of the frequency of depressive disorders among the population, forensic aspects of depression are rare and usually focussed on suicidal behaviour, especially the so-called homicide-suicide (homicide followed by suicide). Today therapeutic strategies are seen in the first stage of dealing with depressed homicid...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Frank U,Jokusch U,König F,Leibfarth M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random sample of patients (n = 43) had been investigated to detect any difference in response of bright light therapy in lithium-treated inpatients (n = 18) suffering from depression. Only 27% of the lithium-based inpatients respond to bright light therapy, but 73% of patients respond who were not treated with lithi...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Heim M,Morgner J

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of discussions on the re-organisation of specialities in psychiatry and psychological therapy recent studies on the prevalence of psychogenic disorders in different psychiatric institutions are presented and compared with the communications available so far. Despite the availability of excellent psychot...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:605 German psychiatrists were asked what they consider important ingredients of the quality of life of schizophrenic patients. Most frequently, quality of life was associated with social integration. Work, social contacts and acceptance on the part of their environment were considered particularly important in this re...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Holzinger A,Angermeyer MC,Matschinger H

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the development of an 9-year therapeutic relationship with a patient suffering from epilepsy and a severe personality disorder. Despite serious doubts in the beginning the patient gained an unexpected degree of independence. The development of the case indicates that it was decisive to prevent discontinuati...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schlicht F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of sexes in an acute psychiatric unit was followed up by means of a research survey. Patients and staff members were questioned about the ward climate before and after changing the admission procedure. The male patients merely noticed a decreased influence of sexual problems on the ward atmosphere. The...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Vieweg T,Schubert R,Lemke S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 32-year old man suffering from a 10-year course of schizophrenia is presented. The man's delusions include the conviction of being of the opposite sex and thus, he applied for an operational correction of his gender according to the law of transsexualism. Based on the evident problems arising from this c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Brüne M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's Disease, a neuropsychiatric disorder with dominant inheritance and late manifestation is related to multiple psychosocial problems of the affected person, his life partner as well as their children (so-called individuals at risk). During a five years project the authors contacted 131 persons, directly and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jarka M,Brosig B,Richter HE

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：: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：:The authors report their three years experience with treating addicts (both alcoholics and users of prescription and illegal drugs) in a specialized unit employing a low-threshold admission policy. Difficulties as well as advantages of the concept are discussed. For the common treatment of patients addicted to differe...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Grischke-Silber J,Kling U,Rave-Schwank M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "Social Psychiatry" was first used in English in 1917 by E. E. Southard. Six years before, in 1911 Max Fischer, director of Wiesloch Mental Hospital near Heidelberg employed the terms "Sozialpsychiatrie" and "Soziale Psychiatrie" in German. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Finzen A,Hoffmann-Richter U

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative research methods give an opportunity to investigate the everyday reality of dealing with and understanding of chronic mental illness as a social reality in local context. By the reconstruction of the perspective of the mentally ill, their relatives and their professional caregivers we analyze the cultural ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Zaumseil M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since community mental health care started public attitudes towards mentally ill and mental health care had been development to an important influencing factor in planning mental health care and in rehabilitation of patients. This paper describes the historical development of research in public attitudes in psychiatry...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W,Salize HJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting with Ciompis model of "affect logic" I want to show that affective, cognitive and behavioral patterns, once emerged in psychosis, subsequently tend to repetition and chronification on account of psychological, social but also neuronal plasticity. In the discussion about reasons of the chronification process, ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hoffmann H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kufs' disease is a very rare type of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. A case of a 52 year old man with dementia is described. The cause for patient's dementia was the adult type (Kufs' disease) of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. The diagnosis based on the histopathological post mortem-examination of the brain-tissue. A...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kozian R,Kiszka T,Peter K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the highest rates of suicide occur in German-speaking countries and particularly in Saxonia. There are grounds for the assumption that the fact has been caused by a careful recording of suicides in this country since 1829. The paper describes the development of rates of suicide and the changes of the suicidal m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller E,Bach O

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium--a state of acute or subacute confusion--is a common organic mental syndrome occurring predominantly in old age. The disorder is highly prevalent in psychiatric institutions, in general hospitals and nursing homes. Patients affected by delirium carry an increased mortality-risk and will become dependent on nu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hewer W,Förstl H

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About one third (29.5%) of the population living within the area of Frankfurt, for which the psychiatric university clinic provides psychiatric service, are foreigners. For the better understanding of our foreign psychiatric inpatients treated in our clinic in in 1992, the diagnostic spectrum and the nationalities of ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Holzmann TH,Volk S,Georgi K,Pflug B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00