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Combined Antidepressant Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Frank Winston*
Affiliation:
313 Price Place, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 53705

Extract

It is still generally believed that it is dangerous to combine the tricyclic antidepressants with any of the M.A.O. inhibitors, and the Federal Drug Administration, the Witts Committee and the drug manufacturers caution against so doing. Several current texts reiterate these warnings. (Beck, 1967; Malitz, 1966: Shepherd et al., 1968).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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