An archetype of the collaborative efforts of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in successfully treating dissociative identity disorder with comorbid bipolar disorder

Psychiatry (Edgemont)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 33-37

  Lakshmanan, Manu N ^a   Meier, Stacey L Colton ^b   Meier, Robert S ^c   Lakshmanan, Ramaswamy ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Comorbid bipolar disorder; Dissociative identity disorder; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ARIPIPRAZOLE; CARISOPRODOL; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LORAZEPAM; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MANIA; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECALL; REMISSION; SELF MEDICATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VOICE CHANGE;

EID: 77956129775     PISSN: 15505952     EISSN: 15555194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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