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PTSD and psychosis- diagnostic and treatment dilemma

In spite of growing evidence of psychic trauma causes brain-function damage, implication of traumatic experience on appearance of psychotic episode is not fully understand. In our everyday work we were faced with number of patients with PTSD and psychotic features, as well as co morbidity of PTSD and psychosis. The dilemmas start with questions are psychotic features part of psychotic disorder, are they just a part on psychotic continuum, and are there differences between PTSD psychosis and PTSD with psychosis? In our clinical experience pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy are needed but with overall limited success. In this workshop, through several clinical cases and research results, the influence of different kind of traumatic experience on development of psychotic features and psychosis will be shown as well as some treatment options.

PTSD; psycosis; dignosys; diagnostic chtegories

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