Background: Homeless people present high rates of psychopathology, including personality
disorders. Given the link between personality disorders and attachment, and the potential …

Background: The treatment of psychiatric patients has suffered a major change over the last
decades, with long-term hospitalizations being replaced by short-term stays and appropriate …

Background: Schizoaffective psychosis is a severe and chronic psychiatric disorder defined
by the presence of mood symptoms, like mania and/or depression and schizophrenia, such …

Background: In Europe, psychiatric disorders seem to affect up to 50% of the homeless. In
Portugal there were, at a certain time, circa 3,396 homeless people, half living in the capital …

Personality disorders in homeless people pose a challenge to the medical community and
society, requiring specialized approaches for these super-difficult patients. The prevalence …

The ailments of persons experiencing homelessness have been studied by clinicians, but
also academics, from different backgrounds for many decades. A rapid search on PubMed …

Diogenes syndrome is a behavioral disorder usually described in individuals in a neglected
physical state living in extreme squalor, unhygienic conditions, and self-imposed isolation …

In this article, we highlight the need to implement care transition interventions to reduce the
revolving door phenomenon (RD) in the general population and homeless patients (HP). We …

The article presents comments on mortification and shelterization of homeless psychiatric
patients in Portugal. Topics include decrease of network contacts with mental health …

Introduction Alcohol-related problems disproportionally affect people experiencing
homelessness. As the first wave of the COVID-2019 pandemic spread in 2020, a number of …