Depression is one of the most common mental disorders. The effectiveness of pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments is well documented. Remission rates are around 67 % for pharmacological antidepressant initial and secondary treatment of a depressive episode in unipolar disorders. However, patients with a depressive episode who do not respond to at least two successive attempts at...
Phenomenology, clinical diagnostics and treatment of hallucinations Abstract. Hallucinations are perceptions without any stimulus. They occur typically in schizophrenia, but they can be found in other psychiatric or medical disorders as well. Recently, hallucinations have been increasingly reported to occur with a high prevalence in the general population and they are conceptualised as...