Abstract
Depression is the commonest psychiatric disorder in the industrialised world. Many patients are now diagnosed and treated with effective antidepressants by primary care physicians. A large proportion of depressed individuals fail to reach their premorbid level of functioning following a course of treatment; estimates vary from 10% to 30% (Nierenberg & Amsterdam, 1990). These individuals require a major input from the services and suffer prolonged distress, with many adverse personal, social and economic consequences.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health