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Evaluation of Psychiatric Treatments

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In an ideal world, no new treatments should be introduced into medicine until they have been shown to be more effective, safer or less expensive than existing treatments (Cochrane 1971). In the real world, once new treatments have been shown to be effective, they are quickly promoted by their makers. The methods of the marketplace, rather than scientific argument about effectiveness, safety and cost, are used to encourage clinicians to adopt the new treatments. Before 1936, psychiatry, like much of general medicine, had few treatments that were specifically effective. Even so, the advice of clinicians was highly prized — at best, people did well with sage advice and encouragement, and at worst, people with serious disorders could be shown how to lessen the impending tragedy, while people with disorders likely to remit could be shown how to manage until the remission occurred.

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Andrews, G. (2001). Evaluation of Psychiatric Treatments. In: Henn, F., Sartorius, N., Helmchen, H., Lauter, H. (eds) Contemporary Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59519-6_33

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