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Oct 2011
28m 13s

How is depression treated?

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent years. 
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