AUTHOR=Panov Georgi 

TITLE=Dissociative Model in Patients With Resistant Schizophrenia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.845493

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2022.845493

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=We studied the dissociative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and found a link between resistance to the antipsychotic drugs used and the presence of a high degree of dissociation. We measured the dissociation with the scale for assessment of dissociative experiences and found up to 3 times higher dissociation in patients with resistance to treatment. By default, dissociative disorders are not treated with antipsychotic medications, which raises the question of reconsidering the nature of resistant schizophrenia.