This issue of Psychiatric Annals features five" case reports. I believe that psychiatrists who are actively practicing clinical psychiatry have much to teach one another. Although placebo-controlled, randomly assigned treatment studies, case-control studies, and long-term follow-up studies are essential to the development of our knowledge base, the fact is that many of the studies available do not address and do not inform us about the individual cases we come across in the real world of clinical practice.
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