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Compulsive Personality as Predictor of Response to Serotonergic Antidepressants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Pollitt  and
Peter Tyrer
John Pollitt
Affiliation:
St Thomas' Hospital, London, and 152 Harley Street, London W1N 1HH
Peter Tyrer
Affiliation:
St Mary's Hospital Medical School, St Charles's Hospital, London W10 6DZ
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Abstract

A short paper of this title reported a study by Ansseau et al (1991). The present authors were invited to comment upon the study.

Type
The Current Literature
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 6 , December 1992 , pp. 836 - 838
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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