Childhood Trauma and Psychosis: A Narrative Review

Abstract

Over the last twenty years, interest in the study of environmental variables in the development of psychopathology has resulted in the publication of multiple research studies. Some of them have focused on the study of the development of psychosis, finding a correlation with having been exposed to childhood trauma. This study attempts to analyze the evolution of this research over the last ten years and to study if certain types of trauma determine the onset of specific psychotic symptoms. Also, the existence of different mediating and moderating variables of the relation are examined. Subsequently, the clinical implications originating from data in the revised literature are discussed.