title: Post-traumatic psychoneurosis: evaluation of drug therapy.
abstract: This study evaluates the results of drug therapy and psychotherapy in post-traumatic psychoneurosis. The study was undertaken because of the frequent need to estimate the costs of treatment since the illness may at times be the result of a compensable injury. Patients with this illness are frequently parties in litigation. Over the past twelve years, fifty patients that had been diagnosed as having Post-Traumatic Psychoneurosis were treated. In order to attempt to evaluate the effects of treatment the patients were selected alternately for therapy with psychotherapy or with drug therapy. The results of therapies are compared and evaluated.
mesh_terms: D000639:Amitriptyline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D010546:Perphenazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000639:Amitriptyline; D010546:Perphenazine