Acta psychiatrica Belgica (Acta Psychiatr Belg)

Publications in this journal

• Article: Ongoing research projects in the Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI).

  Sabbe Bernard, Dom Geert, De Bruijn Ellen, Goethals Kris, Morrens Manuel, Schrijvers Didier, et al
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 12/2012;
• Article: Goethals, K., Dilliën, T., Huys, W., & Cosyns, P. (2012). Relevant topics in forensic psychiatric research. Acta Psychiatrica Belgica, 112(4), 34-37.

  Goethals Kris, Dilliën Tineke, Huys Wim, Cosyns Paul
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 12/2012;
• Article: Need for Research on mental health and neuro(psychiatry)

  Van Royen Paul
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 12/2012; 112(4):5-6.
• Article: l'humanité et les drogues : une longue histoire commune

  Trumpff Caroline, Kornreich Charles
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  ABSTRACT: Les drogues font partie de la vie des hommes depuis toujours. En effet, l'alcool et certaines drogues avaient une place dans l'alimentation des premiers humains et on retrouve de nombreuses traces archéologiques indiquant que l'usage régulier d'alcool, de pavot, de cannabis et de coca remonte à plusieurs millénaires. L'agriculture a permis de produire de manière systématique et abondante plusieurs drogues. Certaines d'entre elles ont connu un succès mondial suite à leur diffusion dans le décours des voyages transocéaniques à partir du 15° siècle comme le café, le tabac, le vin, et l'opium. La généralisation de leur culture a permis une diminution des prix qui a elle-même favorisé le passage d'un usage médical, où ces substances étaient souvent confinées, vers une consommation récréative de masse qui a généré des problèmes d'addiction. Si les drogues ont toujours été présentes, elles ont cependant été perçues et utilisées différemment en fonction des cultures et des époques. Aujourd'hui des drogues comme le café, le tabac et l'alcool sont en vente libre en Occident alors que l'opium, la cocaïne et les dérivés du chanvre ont été prohibés. Ces six drogues ont en commun d'être mondialisées et de représenter une part considérable de l'économie humaine. Cet article retrace leur histoire spécifique.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 01/2011; 11(2):15-22.
• Article: Rorschach and electrodermal activity: a hypothesis

  C-E Mattlar, E Kronholm, MT Hyyppä
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  ABSTRACT: Objective: To relate spontaneous electrodermal activity (EDA) levels to Rorschach (CS) responses. Background: Anxious anticipation is indicative before the Rorschach test. EDA acts as a sensitive measure of anticipation. The Rorschach uncovers uncontrolled affects which modify person's coping strategy under mental load. Design/Methods: This is a part of a large psychophysiological population study. EDA was measured with a modification of Edelberg's method. The Rorschach was immediately presented according to the CS. Out of the 41 first consecutive attendants three ss with high and three with low EDA were chosen without knowing their Rorschach responses. Results: In all high EDA ss a significant CDI and an Egocentricity Index of <0.33 emerged. They all were extratensive with an M of <=2, and with an Afr <0.44; all had an E<=es, and an W:M of 7:1 or more reduced. Additionally, all had an Y>=1, and two an DEPI of 7. In the low EDA ss the Zd was -6 to -8 and the CDI was low; all had an W:M of about 2:1 when reduced, and all had an EA>es. All ss had an Y=0. Conclusions: Results suggest that anxious arousal before Rorschach is typical to the persons with fragile self-esteem. As compared to the low EDA ss, high EDA ss expressed tension and incompetency in social and emotional interactions, high concern of the opinion of others, deficient ability to thinking through, unrealistically high ambitions, and low self esteem combined with experienced helplessness.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 01/1996; 96(S1):97-109.
• Article: [Assisted procreation: ethics and passions].

  Y Englert
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  ABSTRACT: In vitro fertilization has become a subject of major ethical debate filled with passion and for two main reasons: On the one hand, it has posed in a very clear way the problem of the status of the human embryo, a problem intrinsically related to the debate on the voluntary termination of pregnancy. On the other hand, it looks again at the debate on access to these techniques, to the legitimacy of the desire for a child and to debate on the new families and from there, questions sexuality, life and death, subjects of fundamental existence. The authors analyses the phenomenon, develops a lay approach to embryo status and from there defends a vision of freedom of access to assisted procreation.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):350-7.
• Article: [Role of freedom in psychiatric theories].

  L Cassiers
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  ABSTRACT: All the theories of mind used in the treatment of mental illnesses are based on one or another kind of determinism. Therefore, psychiatrists are obliged to conceive the subjective free will of their patients as a psychological function that their theories do not explain. As a result of it, they encounter many difficulties in the ethical aspects of their therapeutical choices. Following the ideas of A. Pichot, F. Varela and Ph. Meire, the author proposes an autoreferential conception of the cerebral functions and its link with mind. He shows how it is possible to give a theoretical place to human free will. He indicates the clinical advantages of such a model, giving the free will of the patient a therapeutical role, and making the ethical choices of the psychiatrist easier.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):310-9.
• Article: [Psychological roots of ethics].

  P Lekeuche
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  ABSTRACT: The drive to murder, so-called Cain drive by L. Szondi is properly human. As non-ethic, it opens up the dialectics of ethics. Because it is a drive, it includes in itself the possibility of its own surpassing.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):326-31.
• Article: [Ethical implications in the psychotherapeutic relationship].

  A W Szafran
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  ABSTRACT: The psychotherapeutical relationship is part of the communication sciences. Therefore some authors as e.g. J. Habermas consider the ethics of the psychotherapeutical relationship to be paradigmatical for the ethics of communication. The ethical problems of psychotherapy are particularly important, since the patient-psychotherapist relationship is the main instrument of therapy. The ethical problems vary according to the type of psychotherapeutical relationship, which in turn depends on the form of psychotherapy. Therefore the ethical problems will successively be considered in the psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies, the behavior therapies and the systemic therapies. Finally the more general ethical problem of the relations of psychotherapists with power will be discussed.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):320-5.
• Article: [Child sex abuse: pretext to a return of sexual repression].

  C Marneffe
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  ABSTRACT: This article is based on observations and thoughts during intensive psychotherapeutic work with 997 sexually abused children and their parents after they had been reported to the Confidential Doctor Center Kind in Nood of the VUB (between 1986 and 1994). Without denying the existence of sexual abuse of children, it is important not to exaggerate this phenomena, which can be described as the Child Sexual Abuse Panic Syndrome. Doing this only gives way to denial and indignation or scandalization and revenge, and certainly does not lead to a clear analysis of the problem. Accurate observation enables some existing myths to become unravelled: abusive fathers are seldom power robots, mothers are not always warm-hearted, innocent creatures and children are not black boxes without feeling and sexual desires. The underlying message is about the bitter fight against modernization of sexuality, which seems again experienced as dangerous. However it is fear for a free, adult sexuality that is at the core of sexual exploitation of children, which should encourage caution in professional answers to this delicate issue.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):358-68.
• Article: [The Société Royale de Médecine Mentale de Belgique in search of its history].

  G Van Renynghe de Voxvrie
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):277-90.
• Article: [Between deontology and ethics, does the institution become respectable?].

  M Breulet
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  ABSTRACT: Deontology draws one's inspiration from Ethics. From this occurrence it seems important to avoid confusion between the first and the second. Psychiatry belongs truly to medical training. Nevertheless considering freedom pathology is its main particularity. This is the reason why human freedom must, at all cost, be preserved. This one is essential whenever individual subjectivity is concerned. The fundamental reference remains Human Rights Convention; even if opposed to principle of reality, one is necessarily obliged to a conflictual accommodation.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):337-49.
• Article: [Ethical questions about methadone].

  S Zombek
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  ABSTRACT: The author approaches ethical questions raised by use of methadone in opiates addiction: reduction of drug phenomenon to a strict medical problem, illusion of technical mastery, responsibility of pharmaceutical engineering, medicine under repressive constraint, reduction of damages linked to prohibition. The communication ends on a question about management of drug problems which today encourages a healthy vision of consumption behaviour rather than a "good way of use".
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):369-84.
• Article: [Ethics and psychiatry].

  A Badiou
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):301-9.
• Article: [Ethics and research: ethical considerations in clinical research].

  H D'Haenen
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  ABSTRACT: Two subjects are discussed: the use of placebo controls in clinical trials and informed consent. Particularly in trials of drugs for disorders for which there exist effective treatments, the use of placebo is still controversial, although anyhow in violation of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent aims at giving a subject all the necessary information to allow him to decide, with full knowledge, whether to accept a particular treatment or experimental protocol. Its importance would seem, albeit essential, to be rather illusory.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):332-6.
• Article: [125 years of Acta Psychiatrica Belgica. Bulletin of the Société Royale de Médecine Mentale de Belgique].

  G Van Renynghe de Voxvrie
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1995; 95(6):291-6.
• Article: [Phylogeny of sleep stages].

  M Jouvet
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  ABSTRACT: The states of sleep in man (orthodox and paradoxical sleep) are the achievement of a long evolution which has successively integrated several mechanisms. The circadian clock (predictive homeostasis) a system responsible for saving energy utilisation, a mechanism which adapts the duration of sleep to the preceding duration of waking (reactive homeostasis) and finally the apparition of an ultradian pace maker in homeothermic mammals which will be responsible for dreaming in man.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1994; 94(4-6):256-67.
• Article: [Freud, precursor of ethology, between Darwin and MacLean].

  B Cyrulnik
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  ABSTRACT: We often forget Freud's share for zoology. Many primary ideas are issued from "Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals". The general attitude is evolutionistic, with his reasoning in becoming, fixation-regression, ontogeny and history in Man. This attitude is found again on its neurological side in MacLean and his verbal translation of cerebral levels.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1994; 94(4-6):299-311.
• Article: [Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790-1836) reveals the antiquity of man thanks to antediluvian deposits of the Liège caves].

  L Henderickx
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  ABSTRACT: Philippe-Charles Schmerling, often considered as the founder of paleontology, was undoubtedly a prominent personality in the province of Liège. The author evoques the beginning of paleontologic and prehistoric research in Wallonia through the biography and the analysis of Schmerling's works. Some of his contributions were completely disregarded, especially in the field of paleopathology where he can really be considered as a founder. Posterity will mainly retain his assertion about the contemporaneity of mankind with extinct animal species.
  Acta psychiatrica Belgica 02/1994; 94(4-6):183-212.