InconvenienceVerward van geest en ander ongerief by Harry Oosterhuis and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is a voluminous and sound reference work about the history of psychiatry in the Netherlands. Striving for completeness, however, the authors failed to deliver a synthesis in the…

H. Oosterhuis, M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, Verward van geest en ander ongerief. Psychiatrische en geestelijke gezondheidszorg in Nederland (1870-2005) Mental Disorder and other EncumbrancesThe three volumes of Verward van geest offer an extensive overview of the history of psychiatry and mental health care…

Re-Minding the DutchVerward van Geest is commended because of its careful, balanced, detailed, meticulously researched, and comprehensive approach of the development of the psychiatric profession in the Netherlands. The authors relate Dutch developments to initiatives abroad, some of which were…

Response In our response to the three reviews of our book we focus on five critical points that were made, namely: the presumed absence of a central question and overall explanatory framework; the argument that the work is not a…