The safety and efficacy of ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic, treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder : the first randomized controlled pilot study

Case reports indicate that psychiatrists administered ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) as a catalyst to psychotherapy before recreational use of MDMA as ‘Ecstasy’ resulted in its criminalization in 1985. Over two decades later, this study is the first completed clinical trial evaluating MDMA as a therapeutic adjunct.

Themanummer: Classificatie van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen

Classifying personality disorders: an Evolution-based alternative to an Evidence-based approach-Theodore Millon, Personality assessment in DSM-V: empirical support for rating severity, style and traits-C.J.Hopwood et al., Classifying Personality Disorders according to severity-M.J.Crawford et al., Beyond dysfunction and threshold-based classification: a multidimensional model of Personality...

Narrating trauma : on the impact of collective suffering

In case studies that examine wrenching historical and contemporary crises across five continents, cultural sociologists analyze the contingencies of trauma construction and their fateful social impact. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorized as perpetrators? Why are some horrendously...

Military leaders facing problematic decision making : conference proceedings of the international military mental health conference

The 13th International Military Mental Health Conference brought together a variety of military and civilian professionals, who travelled to Amsterdam from different countries, like Estonia, Norway, Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium France, Italy, Austria, Canada, the United States of America, and the Netherlands, to share relevant experiences and topics related to mental health care in the armed...

Lack of social support among ethnic minorities after a disaster: comparative study

Background Disaster research suggests that immigrant groups who are affected by a disaster receive less emotional support than their native counterparts. However, it is unclear to what extent these differences can be attributed to post-disaster mental health problems or whether they were present before the event. Aims To examine the association between lack of social support, immigration status...

La rencontre traumatique: en deçà et au-delà de l'événement = The traumatic encounter: within and beyond the event

Summary: With regard to the trauma, the fixation on the fact, the phenomenon, placed in prominent position, should not minimize its particularity or the logic of trauma. Indeed, all is not traumatic, even though many situations are, in many ways 'traumatizing'. The issue of 'traumatic encounter' thus relates the following feature: it is the encounter of something, for someone, that makes trauma...

Lack of perceived social support among immigrants after a disaster: comparative study

Disaster research suggests that immigrant groups who are affected by a disaster receive less emotional support than their native counterparts. However, it is unclear to what extent these differences can be attributed to post-disaster mental health problems or whether they were present before the event

Internet-based prevention of posttraumatic stress symptoms in injured trauma patients: design of a randomized controlled trial

BackgroundInjured trauma victims are at risk of developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other post-trauma psychopathology. So far, interventions using cognitive behavioral techniques (CBT) have proven most efficacious in treating early PTSD in highly symptomatic individuals. No early intervention for the prevention of PTSD for all victims has yet proven effective. In the acute...

I hear you, you hear me. Sociotherapy in Rwanda

Ten significant change stories gathered from after care participants by sociotherapists of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and Faith Victory Association Nyamata.

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