Psychiatrist, drug thyself

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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 August 2011 10:30 Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:39

While many therapists undergo therapy themselves, the people who prescribe drugs – psychiatrists and GPs alike – rarely experience the effects of the drugs they prescribe, until a small group of French psychiatrists broke the rule.

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1. Effects of paroxetine on emotional functioning and treatment awareness: a 4-week randomized placebo-controlled study in healthy clinicians, by Nathalie Besnier, Catherine Cassé-Perrot, Elisabeth Jouve, Nhan Nguyen, Christophe Lançon, Bruno Falissard, Olivier Blin

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