Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with eating disorders (revision)
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The American Psychiatric Association presents guidelines for treating eating disorders. The treatment should include nutritional and psychosocial counseling as well as medications. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the safest antidepressants, but tricyclic antidepressants and monamine oxidase inhibitors can also be used.
Publication Name: American Journal of Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-953X
Year: 2000
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Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder (revision)
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The American Psychiatric Association presents its guidelines for treating depressive disorder. Psychotherapy should be combined with antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy should be considered for patients with severe symptoms.
Publication Name: American Journal of Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-953X
Year: 2000
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Eating disorders: defining the phenotype and reinventing the treatment
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Patients with eating disorders can now be treated on an outpatient basis. Treatment in turn must be based on the phenotype of the individual patient.
Publication Name: American Journal of Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-953X
Year: 1999
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