The development and status of inpatient psychotherapy in The Netherlands

: Based on experiences of world war two the "Militair Neurose Hospitaal" was founded. It became an outstanding training place for young psychiatrists due to its psychoanalytic, groupdynamic and milieutherapeutic concepts. It also became a model for numerous neuroses hospitals to be fonded. In this paper the further development of therapy and research in this domaine is described. Finally a restructuring of clinical units is presented, differentiating the hospital in social psychiatric units on the one hand and real psychotherapeutic wards on the other hand.