SELECTION OF REVIEWS 

" describes the mental health care on the basis of examples from the daily practice in a playful and humorous way.” (Dutch national tv, current affairs programme: Een Vandaag,)

 “A lively description of the routine in the out patient mental health care.”  (Womans Magazine: Opzij)

"Criticism applying to all kinds of professional health care organizations. The book discusses in fact the arrogance and opportunism of therapists and organizations.'  (Journal of Psychiatry)

"Very recognizable. Useful for people who want to know what to expect in the mental health care.” (Journal: Bulletin for Clients in the Mental Health Care)

“A constructive book, required reading by anyone who is involved in the mental health care including financers and inspectors.” (The Amsterdam Patient JournaL)

Do Not Disturb (text in Dutch) is a critical reflection on the Dutch outpatient mental health care based on the critical professional literature, dossier research and own observations. The author discusses the bureaucracy, the inadequate diagnostics, the often ineffecient treatment methods and the undervaluation of preventive care. She also presents several usually unsuccessful attempts to innovate the mental health care, includig the care for clients wit an migration background. Do not disturb ends with a decription of the developments in the regional mental health care around the Bijlmer airplane crash of October 4 1992.

The book is interlaced with examples from the daily practice, quotes by professionals, passages from the world literature and eighty cartoons. The cartoons were created by the author on the request of a management consultant as an intervention to bring about organizational changes.

Triptych

Do not disturb forms together with Saar Roelofs' book Who is crazy, actually? (about the therapist-client relationship, 2008) and her E-document No talent for conformism (a look back on her career as researcher, therapist and manager, 2024) a critical, still relevant triptych on the Dutch mental health care.