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Depressive Typologies and Response to Amitriptyline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. S. Paykel*
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital, London, S.W.17

Extract

The aims of this paper are to report findings from the use of an empirically derived typology to predict response of depressed patients to amitriptyline, and to compare this typological prediction with predictions from two other classifications of depressed patients, one traditional and one newer.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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