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Childhood Abuse in First-Episode Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shelly F. Greenfield ,
Stephen M. Strakowski ,
Mauricio Tohen ,
Susan C. Batson  and
Meredith L. Kolbrener
Shelly F. Greenfield*
Affiliation:
Division of Psychotic Disorders Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati
Stephen M. Strakowski
Affiliation:
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Ambulatory Treatment Program and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Mauricio Tohen
Affiliation:
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Susan C. Batson
Affiliation:
Psychotic Disorders Program, McLean Hospital
Meredith L. Kolbrener
Affiliation:
Psychotic Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
*
∗McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02178, USA
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Abstract

Of 38 adult patients admitted for first-episode psychosis, 20 reported childhood abuse, with equal prevalence in men and women. Patients with histories of childhood abuse had significantly more dissociative symptoms, but not more severe psychiatric symptoms. Childhood abuse was not related to rate of recovery and was only marginally related to longer stays in hospital. Although childhood abuse did not affect recovery during first-episode psychosis, it may contribute to a chronic course in some patients.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 164 , Issue 6 , June 1994 , pp. 831 - 834
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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