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Let’s take a look at a recent meta-analysis on dissociative disorders and pharmacotherapy. However, there is nothing new here. There is a laundry list of possibilities when we look at open trials, but those are fundamentally not entirely trustworthy because they are published by enthusiasts. Furthermore, when it comes to randomized trials, there is nothing that has been shown in randomized trials to be particularly useful in the pharmacotherapy of dissociative disorders.
So, before we jump to medications, let’s consider what can be done with psychotherapy. First, a brief tour here through a very recent review by a specialist. The history of psychotherapy for dissociative disorders goes back to Charcot in the 1860s, when he looked at what was then termed hysteria. His colleague there at the Salpêtrière in Paris, Pierre Janet, came to think that trauma was the basis for what he and Charcot were observing, which leaps us
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