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Article: PTSD responds to Mix to Drugs, Psychotherapy. (Consider CBT, SSRI).(posttraumatic stress disorder; cognitive behavioral therapy; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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ASPEN, COLO. -- The state of therapeutics in postrraumatic stress disorder can be described in a word as confusing, Dr. John A. Talbott said at a psychiatry conference sponsored by the University of Colorado.
"Frankly, it's a mess," he said. "The literature is not great. But it's an intriguing field in many ways. It's ever-evolving. It's so different than it was 20 or 30 years ago."
Dr. Talbott is a Vietnam veteran with a career-long special interest in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a close follower of the PTSD literature from his experience as editor-in-chief of the "Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health" for more than 20 years. ...