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César A. Alfonso's article ushers in a new interdisciplinary feature of Psychodynamic Psychiatry. Research and clinical reports are regularly published in the scholarly literature of allied disciplines that are important for psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists to be aware of. Dr. Alfonso and others will comment on these areas in the print and internet versions of the journal. Although his remarks in this issue discuss molecular biology, many other areas will be reviewed in the future as well.
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Experienced psychotherapy practitioners agree that psychotherapy, when compared with antidepressant medication, results in comparable