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Depression is both psychosocial and biological; antidepressants are both effective and in need of improvement; psychiatrists are both caring human beings and doctors who prescribe medications. Can we all agree on this? a commentary on ‘Read & Moncrieff – depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

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Carmine M. Pariante*
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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Author for correspondence: Carmine M. Pariante, E-mail: [email protected]
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 52 , Issue 8 , June 2022 , pp. 1411 - 1413
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