There are many aspects to the complex
relationship linking trauma and psychosis.
These include the age of the individual
when the trauma occurred, gender and the
relationship of the trauma to the stage or
phase of illness. Among the various angles
from which this question can be
approached, research foci have ranged
from the issue of trauma consequent to
psychosis (psychological trauma linked to
the experience of a first psychotic
episode (1), or traumatic events that
patients with psychosis can experience
while in treatment (2)), to that of trauma
as a factor influencing the emergence or
the course of psychosis. This latter facet of
the question has received more attention in
recent years.