Significant improvement of posttraumatic stress disorder and psychotic symptoms after inpatient eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment: A case report with 6-month follow-up

In sum, reprocessing of traumatic memories effectively helped the patient to remit from PTSD and positive psychotic symptoms. Symptom levels had decreased even further at 6-month follow-up. The patient reported that her disturbing “images” had vanished, that she felt well, that she could now “handle everyday life” and that she was doing voluntary work. She decided to end her outpatient CBT treatment but still consults her psychiatrist regularly. As we observed initial increases of psychotic symptoms, inpatient treatment might be a useful option in the treatment of PTSD and psychotic symptoms. ]Exceprt]

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Leonhard Kratzer
Peter Heinz
Rebecca Schennach

Kratzer, L., Heinz, P., & Schennach, R. (2017, July-Sepemeber). Significant improvement of posttraumatic stress disorder and psychotic symptoms after inpatient eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment: A case report with 6-month follow-up.   Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 59(3), 389-390.  doi:10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_318_16