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Modern therapy in depression
Abstract
The rapid development in psychiatry, especially in the field of drug treatment, has given rise to numerous problems and questions. In order to provide an opporturuty for the discussion of various facets of the complex problem of treatment in depressive conditions, three symposia were held recently. The first symposium was held in Cape Town on 9. August 1%0 under the auspices of the Department of Medicine of the _University of Cape Town; the second was held in Johannesburg on 26 August 1960, under the auspices of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the University of the Witwatersrand; and the third was held in Durban on 4 October 1960, under the patronage of the Faculty of Neurology and Psychiatry of the College of Physicians, Surgeons and Gynaecologists of South Africa.
