Conference paper

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Dragan Babić ; Department of Psychiatry University Clinical Hospital Mostar, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia&Herzegovina
Romana Babić ; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia&Herzegovina

Abstract

During the past century, many scientific discoveries and industrialization greatly contributed to the progress in medicine and significantly improved a quality of life of psychiatric patients. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder. Due to synthesis
of numerous high quality antipsychotic medications, a great progress in the treatment of it has been made during the last 50 years. In five thousand years of the recorded history, it is known that in the early times, people used different methods and procedures in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. In recent decades after great discoveries, medicine based on facts
has also faced a number of disappointments. The medicine gradually begins to understand that some of the alternatives used earlier in centuries are complementary methods that were unnecessarily suppressed and excluded from the treatment. On the other hand, a number of countries where this is legally possible is growing and there is also an increasing number of patients seeking alternative and
complementary methods in the treatment of schizophrenia.
The aim of this paper is to encourage and reflect upon the meaning of alternative and complementary methods in the treatment of schizophrenia as well as to try and prevent forgetting their meaning whenever it is justified and based on facts.

Keywords

schizophrenia; complementary and alternative medicine

Hrčak ID:

49294

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/49294

Publication date:

25.6.2009.

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