storical reporting which may have lacked reliability or validity. Attempts were made to insure adequate statistical analysis, outliers were discarded and kurtosis was checked for. Assuming accuracy of data, conclusions that suicide is related to PTSD, would be considered substantiated, however, as the study notes, results may be limited regarding accuracy and retrospective bias, which ultimately weakens conclusions and leaves etiology unexplained.
"Clozapine treatment for a veteran with comorbid psychosis and PTSD" by Hamner (1996). This author points out that antipsychotic medications for PTSD patients has received little previous investigation, and presents findings regarding treatment with Clozapine for a PTSD Vietnam veteran. The purpose of the study was logically supported with previous reports of associations between PTSD and psychotic disorders. A weakness of this study is the small sample size, one case study,
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