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In recent years reports have shown that in psychiatric practice in this country short treatments with relatively brief interviews and much reliance on drugs are the rule (Carstairs and Bruhn, 1962; Sargant and Slater, 1964). That this is also true of general practice has been demonstrated (Cooper, 1965; Shepherd et al. , 1966).
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