Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:629-632
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Depression: schism in contemporary psychiatry
AM D'Agostino
The author decribes an experience in his own family involving the initial
unsuccessful treatment of a depressed patient. The patient failed to
respond to psychotherapeutic and drug treatment on an outpatient basis and
in three hospitals; in a fourth hospital he improved dramatically after a
series of ECT treatments and remained without depressive symptoms. The
author stresses the importance of psychiatrists keeping an open mind about
various treatment approaches.
