abstract：:The report describes the inpatient and out-patient treatment facilities for alcoholics in a defined catchment area and the experience gathered by the initiation of out-patient group therapy for a group of alcoholics at the general community hospital in Offenbach/Main. The goal of the group therapy at the hospital was ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Fiedler D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper criteria for the assessment of the ability of psychiatric patients to give an informed consent are presented. Legal and medical aspects including jurisdiction are discussed. Some elements for a judgement of an informed consent are proposed. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neubauer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a controlled intervention study with schizophrenic outpatients we investigated the question of whether regular attendance at psychoeducational training for medication management has an influence on patients' illness-related behavior. The patients in the treatment group show better outcome of compliance and some...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hornung WP,Franzen U,Lemke R,Wiesemann C,Buchkremer G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a total sample of 141 mentally retarded adults the quality of social relationships was assessed by the newly developed "Interview for Social Support in Mentally Retarded Adults". Severely mentally retarded persons have close and intimate relationships to a consistently lesser extent than mildly retarded persons. Th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Meins W

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of the present ecological threat concerning the mind of men are described. Some psychiatric cases are given describing on one hand psychotic patients whose concern about the endangered natural environment is more accidental, whereas in other patients the feeling to be threatened has been resulted in ps...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lübeck HD

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The situation of persons with mental illness, who work in workshops for the handicapped, and the problems they have to deal with, are discussed. Concepts of the psychology of work, which nearly have not been recognized in the field of vocational rehabilitation are described. In a study in several workshops the relatio...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Sonnentag S

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:A case of an acute dyskinesia of a young, schizophrenic woman caused by neuroleptic therapy is reported. The acute dyskinesia was the reason for a complete luxation in the jaw-joint. The patient showed phenomenons (brain-atrophy, cognitive dysfunction, negative symptoms) which are discussed to be connected with acute ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kozian R,Kiszka T,Peter K,Kühne GE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing information about the disease and the way of coping with it has a central position in therapeutic interventions with families. By giving basic knowledge about schizophrenia to relatives we developed the practical conception of the psychoeducative relatives' group (information-group), a structured program, wh...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Scherrmann TE,Seizer HU,Rutow R,Vieten C

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open clinical trial patients with full-developed delirium tremens were treated either by controlled infusion of clomethiazol (n = 21) or by intravenous injections of clorazepate (n = 20). Acute symptomatic quickly decreased after a few days and medication could be reduced. By adding haloperidol a further stabili...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Caspari D,Wappler M,Bellaire W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationship and predictive validity of certain outcome predictors were studied on 54 young schizophrenic patients. In the first year after outburst the illness shows a great variability and the course seems to be open. Neither the premorbid social adjustment nor the amount of negative symptoms seem to predic...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hubschmid T,Perrin N,Ciompi L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of aggressive behaviour of patients towards staff was conducted simultaneously for one year at four psychiatric hospitals. Until now there has been very little empirical research carried out in German speaking countries of aggression in psychiatric hospitals; the reasons for that are discussed. The results ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Steinert T,Vogel WD,Beck M,Kehlmann S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misplacement of the old in psychiatry gains in special importance based on the absolute and relative increase of this population. 117 patients have been announced for admission to the psychogeriatric department of the Zwiefalten State Mental Hospital within six months. Admission of 47 patients did not happen mostly as...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wagner H

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutical groups for relatives of psychiatric patients meanwhile are obligatory within strategies of psychiatric treatment. Up to a now most of the recent investigations refer to relatives of patients suffering from schizophrenia. The following article deleniates experiences with a therapeutic group for relatives ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Karschny J,Rosemeier B,Schubert M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borderline-patients compose a group of severe problem-patients on psychiatric inpatient units. Among other topics this concerns the difficult differential diagnosis, attitudes of demandingness and entitlement, feelings of depressive despair, acting out and impulsive behavior. Using a process oriented diagnostical appr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lohmer M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a questionnaire the therapists of the Psychiatric Hospital in Ravensburg Weissenau were requested for information on the suicidality and symptomato-logy of their patients. This was done to assess the acute and chronic suicidality prevalent in a psychiatric hospital. The number of acute and chronic suicidal patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmölzer C,Wolfersdorf M,Hole G

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：: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：:13 patients with major depressive disorder, who responded well to the reversible MAO-A-inhibitor moclobemide after unsuccessful initial treatment with tri- or tetracyclic antidepressants were monitored under naturalistic outpatient therapy conditions with moclobemide plasma level control for an average of 7.4 months. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Carl G,Laux G

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on retrospective investigation using hospital records of 44 schizophrenic patients of a rehabilitation department, who committed suicide between 1966 and 1986, the paper discusses demographic and psychological features of schizophrenic suicide in comparison with international literature. Subjects who committed s...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Resch F,Strobl R

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic and diabetic patients with suicidal tendency are compared in a retrospective study, both types of patients being characterized by chronic disease and social handicaps. Both these groups are predominantly preoccupied with self-intoxication by tranquilisers and/or alcohol, whereas in the group of epileptics ex...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Möller A,Backmund H

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rehabilitation programme at the University Clinic of Social Psychiatry, Berne, is described. The facility includes a half-way house and sheltered home in a suburb, where 20 psychiatric long-stay patients are trained for an independent life in the community. In a follow-up study 80 patients, mostly chronic schizophre...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hubschmid T,Pfister F,Spalinger J

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All the different branches in forensic psychiatry have to face identical handicaps resulting from the difficulties in cooperation with the law-court. For the psychiatrist, his identity as a therapist is contradictory to his forensic tasks. The paper deals with the resulting dilemmata (partiality v. neutrality; diagnos...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Küchenhoff J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the process of individual psychotherapy the author stresses the importance of understanding the initial everyday life view of "what is about being sick" for to establish a working, and cooperative setting. Thus, a three step procedure has been developed to guide the patient to a self responsible attitude toward...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Leder S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect care for gerontopsychiatric patients by means of patient-centered group discussions under the heading "How to deal with Difficult Patients" is presented as a succession of case reports concerning the progress and course of the first year of a team counselling project in a home for aged persons. The theoretica...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wetzikon AE

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is intended as a contribution towards interpreting the development of psychiatric symptoms as a final result of disturbed processes of communication. We should like to point out that the importance of communication for normal and abnormal behaviour has been established both from the viewpoints of sociopsy...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Koukkou M,Zimmer-Höfler D

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three publications by K.P. Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry. They are model reflections of the steps or stages towards a new approach to understanding the social system represented by the hospital...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Veltin A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unfortunate that mental patients with long-term hospitalisation patterns are still necessarily scheduled for long-term stay in mental hospitals and institutions designed for the care and treatment of psychiatric cases, since such institutions are characterized by a rather sterile, low-stimulation atmosphere unde...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt-Michel PO,Konrad M,Heiter-Metzger B,Schiele G

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a catamnestic study concerning patients of a psychiatric rehabilitation unit are reported. The patients were either longterm inpatients (mean duration of stay 8.5 years) or those, who had been transferred from the acute unit for lack of therapeutic progress and thus were probable to become longterm pati...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rittmannsberger H,Schöny W

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basing on a review of the literature and on own research, the authors examine the incidence rate of convulsions under neuroleptic treatment. In addition, the authors go into the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological mechanisms of the convulsive action of neuroleptics. An attempt is made to present information on...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Bartels M,Heimann H

更新日期：1985-11-01 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：:The influence exercised by personality factors on the course and success of drug therapy aimed at the treatment of mental diseases, as well as the therapeutic consequences resulting therefrom, are discussed in the case of patients with schizophrenic psychoses and endogenous depressions. Over and above this, special at...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rüger U

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of residential placements in homes and households contrasts with the scarcity of its evaluation with respect to therapeutical effects. In order to facilitate evaluative studies, relevant structural elements and suggestions for a typology are discussed as well as methodological problems. Examples of empir...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Uchtenhagen A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:156 patients from two psychiatric hospitals were asked about their expectations and wishes regarding their further medical care and treatment immediately prior to their discharge. Answers were analyzed according to age, sex and diagnoses. This is contrasted by the suggestions of the medical staff, which seems to be in...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Geers M,Müller P

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of day hospital care of geriatric psychiatric patients was evaluated in a pilot study. The main aspect was the training of social competence, i.e. a training leading to growing personal independence of the demands of every day life, such as hygiene , fitness considering the household, etc. During day...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kersten B,Brauer H,Heinrich K

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the agreement on the splitting of the burden of cost to be borne by the Federal German national health and pension insurance schemes, the cost of treatment of addicts has been divided between the relevant bodies. This division of cost has developed into an obstacle especially to the development of curative t...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Spengler C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the theoretical basis and results of a comprehensive research project concerning the psychotherapeutic treatment of sexual offenders in an ambulant setting. The therapeutic sample (n = 86) consists of patients with the following symptoms: exhibitionism, child molestation and sexual aggressive acts towards w...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lohse H,Hauch M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions determining statutory offences as represented by indictable sex offences, have been amended and revised by the 4th Penal Reform Law of the Federal German Penal Code, in 1973, under the heading "Indictable Offences against Sexual Self-Determination". This heading, which is meant to convey a programme, ho...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rasch W,Sassenberg U

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1980 a Psychiatric Department was established at the General Hospital for decentralised psychiatric treatment of inpatients. The article describes the preparatory planning which went into the concept of the Department. First of all, the Hospital is scheduled to look after a district with a population of 110...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lorenzen H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure and functioning of a group therapy comprising all patients of a psychiatric ward is described in terms of psychoanalytic and group dynamics, behaviour therapy and cognitive psychology. 34 acutely-ill patients with heterogenic diagnoses reported their experiences with this group technique at day of discharge....

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt LG

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00