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63 Centres participating in IPDE field trial
LeidenlDelft
Leiden is situated at the confluence of the Old and New Rhine rivers in
the western Netherlands. It was first mentioned in ALI 922 as a holding of
the Utrecht diocese. It developed around a twelfth-century castle and
received its name (Lugdunum Batavomm) in the sixteenth cennuy from
Janus Dousa. a statesman and defender against the Spaniards. The
University of Leiden was founded in 1575 and the city became a centre
of Dutch Reformed theology, science and medicine. It is the birthplace
of many famous Dutch painters including Rembrandt. Jan van Goyen,
and Jan Steen.
The Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University
of Leiden and the St. Joris Psychiatric Hospital in Delft participated in
the study. Delft is a small city between Rotterdam and the Hague,
famous for its handmade faience delftware. All subjects of the study
were from St. Joris.
London
London is the largest pon, and commercial and culhlral centre of Great
Britain and its Commonwealth. Pounded by the Romans as Londinium,
it experienced tremendous gmwth in trade and population at the end of
the sixteenth century. Today it is one of the major centres of international
trade and finance, and a tourist attraction for visitors from all over
the world. Its museums, theatres and other cultural institutions make it
one of the cultural capitals of the world.
The Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital, known informally as
the Joint Hospital, have treated the mentally ill for more than 600 years.
Today the Joint Hospital is administered as a postgraduate teaching hospital.
and with the Institute of Psychiatry make up a tripartite organization
commonly referred to as the Maudsley. The out-patient department
serves some 3000 new attenders each year, representing all the psychiatric
disorders. The hospital is responsible for a local catchment area in
south-east London, south Southwark. In collaboration with the Institute
of Psychiatry, the hospital has a wide range of specialty units, including
those devoted to forensic psychiatry, alcoholism and the addictions, eating
disorders, epilepsy, child and adolescent psychiatry, and neumpsychiatry.
It is also a refenal centre for specialist services for patients from
all over the country. The Institute of Psychiatry is affiliated with the
University of London and offers advanced training for psychiaaists, psychologists,
neumlogists, and other scientific and paramedical workers. It