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Differences in Psychiatrists’ and Psychologists’ Classification of Trauma-Related Changes of Consciousness in PTSD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

T. Schmidt ,
S.W. Uldall ,
J. Carlsson ,
P. Munk-Jørgensen  and
K. Andersen
T. Schmidt*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric hospital and university of Southern Denmark, research unit of psychiatry, Odense, Denmark
S.W. Uldall
Affiliation:
Mental health centre ballerup, competence centre for transcultural psychiatry, Ballerup, Denmark
J. Carlsson
Affiliation:
Mental health centre ballerup, competence centre for transcultural psychiatry, Ballerup, Denmark
P. Munk-Jørgensen
Affiliation:
Psychiatric hospital and university of Southern Denmark, psychiatric research academy Odense, Odense, Denmark
K. Andersen
Affiliation:
Psychiatric hospital and university of Southern Denmark, research unit of psychiatry Odense, Odense, Denmark
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Mental trauma may precede persistent changes in a person's mental health in the form of psychosis and dissociation. Presently, there are no subtypes to the diagnosis of PTSD. A psychotic subtype of PTSD has been proposed, and studies show that these patients differ as well in symptoms as biologically from patients with non-psychotic PTSD. Dissociation and psychosis are generally viewed as different phenomena. Where dissociation is understood as a disintegration of the mind, psychosis is viewed as a neurodegenerative disorder on a mainly biological/genetic basis. The delineation of psychotic and dissociative symptoms is not clear however.

Objectives

Our objective is to clarify, whether psychologists and psychiatrists describe trauma-related changes of consciousness (TCC) differently as dissociative or psychotic. Furthermore, we wish to compare scientific journals, and look for differences in how psychiatrists’ and psychologists’ make use of the terms dissociation and psychosis in relation to TCC.

Aims

We aim to investigate whether TCC are interpreted differently among psychiatrists and psychologists.

Methods

This study is a systematic critical review of the literature. The databases PubMed, Embase and PsychInfo will be used. Articles involving PTSD with TCC will be included. Studies will be classified as viewing TCC's as either psychotic or dissociative, based on the terms the authors use to describe the observed phenomena.

Results

The results will be presented at the EPA in March 2016 in Madrid.

Conclusion

The study will reveal differences in how psychiatrists and psychologists classify TCC's in PTSD.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV914
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S514
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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