PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND MENTAL-DISORDERS

Fifty-eight female impatients consecutively hospitalized in the Univer sity Hospital Department of Psychiatry in Tours were interviewed with a clinician battery of instruments (among them, the SI-PTSD by Davidso n). The diagnoses leading to hospitalization were : severe disorders o f psychotic type (schizophrenic, schizophreniform, schizo-affective, s chizoid and paranoid delusional disorders as well as bipolar disorder) , borderline and narcissistic personalities for 7%, and other disorder s for 53%. Among the results, we observed that 59% of these patients h ad experienced at least one major stressful event (rape 26%, other sex ual assault 29%, physical assault 31%, seeing somebody dying in a viol ent way 8%, war scene 2%, injured in an accident 2%). As a consequence , 61% of the victims have suffered from PTSD and the diagnosis of PTSD was still present in 21%. In addition, in the victims, somatoform and and dissociative disorders were significantly more frequent.