41. DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA AND PSYCHOSIS

Trauma-focused Treatment in Psychosis

At the end of the day, ain't nobody else gonna walk in your shoes, quite the way that you do. So be at peace with yourself. " Bill Fay, lyrics from 'Be At Peace With Yourself'

Editorial: Trauma, Psychosis and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Predicting trauma-focused treatment outcome in psychosis.

OBJECTIVE Although TF treatments are effective in patients with psychosis, it is unknown whether specific psychosis-related obstacles limit the effects, and what determines good outcome. METHODS Baseline posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity and seven psychosis-specific variables were tested as predictors in patients with a psychotic disorder and PTSD (n=108), who received eig...

Epilepsy and psychosis

This study reports the difficulties in the treatment and follow-up of patients with epilepsy and psychotic disorder and the orientation of neurologists about lifelong chronic effect of epilepsy towards psychiatric morbidity. Six patients (2 females, 4 males) complaining of generalized epilepsy, where the disease had started in the adulthood, for more than ten years, and suffered more than ten s...

Relationships between trauma and psychosis: a review and integration.

OBJECTIVES This paper examines the research and theoretical literature on potential links between trauma and psychosis. METHODS Three main alternatives are considered; can psychosis cause PTSD, can trauma cause psychosis and could psychosis and PTSD both be part of a spectrum of responses to a traumatic event? The more influential studies considered are critically evaluated and methodological...