Of 100 consecutive Cambodian patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), seven had severe persistent psychotic symptoms. Those with psychosis did not differ demographically or in severity of trauma from those without psychosis. The behavior of these seven patients was disruptive to their fa
Post-traumatic psychosis among Cambodian refugees
โ Scribed by J. David Kinzie; James J. Boehnlein
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 833 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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