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Pathological gambling: A case report
Mehmet Fatih Tastan, Haluk A. Savas
Gaziantep University, Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Gaziantep, Turkey
E-Mail: mfatihtastan@yahoo.com, drhaluksavas@hotmail.com
Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Vol: 21, Supplement: 2, 2011 - www.psikofarmakoloji.org
Poster Presentations
Pathological gambling(PG), is a disorder which is growing everyday with the increasing prevalence of opportunities for play, usually properly diagnosed,
treatment can be difficult and increasingly restricting the individual’s living area. PG, for the first time in 1980, by The Union of American psychiatry has
been recognized as a disorder and the DSM-3 was unable to resist the urge to gamble as a continuous and progressive definition of a “Impulse Control
Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified” has been included under the heading. Physiological symptoms of DSM-3-R were included in the PG, “the excitement is
to be obtained to provide the desired amount of bets or the need to increase the frequency of hearing,” such as tolerance and “gambling oynayamayınca
hearing restlessness or irritability, such as” withdrawal symptoms participated in the diagnostic criteria. We present a case of PG, 28 year old male patient
who is treated with quetiapin and cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT). With CBT, we did daily psychotherapeutic interview and patient had discovered
his cognitive distortion. Also we saw that SSRIs, Naltrexone, Lithium and Carbamazepine could be used in PG treatment. Patient was externed after 11
days hospitalizing. At the controls we obtained that patient had not gamble again. As a result this was the effect of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment.
Key words: Pathological gambling, cognitive behavioral treatment, cognitive distortion
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