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Long-Term Maintenance Pharmacotherapy in Recurrent and Chronic Affective Disorders

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The Chronically Mentally Ill

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This review deals with the pharmacologic treatment of recurrent and chronic depressive disorders, areas that have been relatively neglected in the research literature. I will focus first on the use of drugs for the long-term maintenance treatment of patients with recurrent major depressions, then discuss briefly the sparse data available on maintenance pharmacotherapy of chronically depressed patients.

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    Moshen Mirabi M.D.

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Prien, R.F. (1984). Long-Term Maintenance Pharmacotherapy in Recurrent and Chronic Affective Disorders. In: Mirabi, M., Feldman, L. (eds) The Chronically Mentally Ill. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9825-7_11

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