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Here’s a question we all face almost every day in practice: For a patient whose depression has remitted on an antidepressant, what should you do? Continue or taper it? Well, what if it was shown that adding a routine therapy, such as cognitive therapy or interpersonal therapy, allowed patients to taper their antidepressant yet maintain remission at the same rates as patients who continued an antidepressant?
Hi! Jim Phelps here for the Psychopharmacology Institute. According to a new meta-analysis in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Josefien Breedvelt and colleagues, adding a routine psychotherapy is as good as antidepressant continuation for the prevention of relapse in remitted major depression. However, there are some twists and turns in this meta-analysis that complicate matters and cloud the conclusion a little bit for us. First, the studies included patients who had had 1 episode of major depression, so we’re not looking at patients
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