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To the Editor: The unqualified recommendation by Wisner et al. (July 18 issue)¹ that women with postpartum depression should be given antidepressants is inappropriate. Antidepressants should indeed be considered, but many women who have recently given birth prefer not to take medications, and many get better remarkably quickly when given the opportunity to discuss their emotional troubles in psychotherapy.

Wisner et al. devote two pages (nearly half of their article) to drug treatment and only three sentences to psychotherapy. Yet psychotherapy has had a distinguished role in treating this illness for more than 100 years and remains a standard recommendation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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