Pharmacotherapy in the Collaborative Treatment of Trauma-Induced Dissociation and Psychosis

Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 307-318

  Rudegeair, Thomas ^a   Farrelly, Susie ^b  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

'Dissociation' and 'psychosis'; Adjunctive role of medications up front; Anxiolytics; Auditory hallucinations and Schneiderian first rank symptoms in DID; ISSD guidelines and DSM IV criteria for dissociative identity disorder; Mood stabilizers; Pharmacotherapy for dissociative phenomena; Psychopharmacologic philosophy; Significant down side of medications; Specific pharmacologic agents and treating dissociative symptoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889283817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699652.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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