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Swaran P. Singh
Swaran P. Singh*
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Department of Psychiatry, Professorial Unit, Mapperley Hospital, Porchester Road, Nottingham NG3 6AA
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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.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 11 , November 1995 , pp. 680 - 685
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