Johannes van der Spek (Maasdam, 14 October 1886 - The Hague, June 12, 1982) was a Dutch psychiatrist.
Van der Spek was the son of Jacob van der Spek, preacher and Catharina Jacoba Janzen. He started his career as a physician in Heemstede and specialized in psychiatry. He then became a doctor at the Willem Arntsz Foundation in Zeist. In 1931, the Rotterdam Council appointed him as director of the Psychiatric Institution Maasoord in Poortugaal. Since 1932 he was also a privately-educated pastoral psychology at Utrecht University, while in 1933 he was appointed to the NEH in Rotterdam as an exceptional lecturer in pure and applied psychology. In 1949 he became president of the Central Commission for Public Health.
As director of Maasoord, he introduced a number of innovations in the treatment of psychiatric patients, such as new somatic therapies: insulin cures, electroshock and electron cure.
In addition, he had a broad interest in education in Rotterdam, where he was a member of the National University, a psychiatrist at the August Herman Franck School for mentally handicapped children. As president of the Rotterdam Education Committee, he gave prominent pedagogues the opportunity to bring new ideas about education and education to the fore.
He was a leading representative of psychotechnics in the Netherlands as applied psychology. He pleaded for psychological research at schools to provide motivated advice in the choice of career. Bibliography Literature
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