Not exact matches
ProfessorMary Cannon, HRB Clinician Scientist and Senior Investigator, Department of Psychiatry, RCSI said «Our findings are the first to show there is direct evidence
between exposure to childhood trauma and
psychotic experience.
Younger children,
between two and nine years old, who had persistent nightmares reported by parents had up to one and a half times increased risk of developing
psychotic experiences.
One recovered schizophrenic calls her
experience with mental hospitals a «revolving door,» and many others can't socialize with other people, even
between psychotic episodes.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a significant link
between the presence of persistent nightmares in childhood and
psychotic experiences in later adolescence.
However, only longitudinal data can determine whether attachment processes are causally implicated in pathways
between childhood
experience and the development of
psychotic phenomena.
In this regard, insecure attachment styles have received theoretical attention [7] as well as some initial empirical support [8 — 10] as mediators
between childhood adverse
experiences and both positive and negative
psychotic features; however, further specificity needs investigating.
Citation: Sullivan SA, Wiles N, Kounali D, Lewis G, Heron J, Cannon M, et al. (2014) Longitudinal Associations
between Adolescent
Psychotic Experiences and Depressive Symptoms.
These results support emerging evidence about a relationship
between peer victimization and
psychotic experiences from cross-sectional or retrospective studies.12, 13,20