OBJECTIVE : Despite its long and auspicious place in the history of psychiatry, dissociative identity disorder (DID) has been associated with controversy. This paper aims to examine the empirical data related to DID and ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) became the first line of treatment of depressive disorders (MDD) during the eighties and has kept its place in the arsenal of options to treat this common disease. MDD accounts ...

Controversy exists regarding the merits of exposure-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) versus a phased approach when prominent dissociative symptoms are present. The first aim of this study was to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES : Avolition is associated with much morbidity and functional impairment in schizophrenia patients. Vigor may be taken as, in part, the inverse of avolition, but it has not been investigated as a ...