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Psychological therapies for bipolar disorder: addressing some misunderstandings
Steven H. Jones, Fiona Lobban, Anne Cooke, Warren Mansell, Kim Wright, and Joanne Hemmingfield
The Psychiatrist. 2011;35:432-434.
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Abstract
We would like to reply to the letter recently published in your journal by Drs Gupta and Brown concerning the recent British Psychological Society Report, Understanding Bipolar Disorder - Why Some People Experience Extreme Mood Swings and What Can Help (1). As authors of this report we were pleased that it has generated debate. In the main, responses from psychiatric and other clinical colleagues have been overwhelmingly positive. MDF-The Bipolar Organisation referred to the report as 'groundbreaking' in their periodical Pendulum (2) and Stephen Fry's tweet on the report led to 2000 downloads in one day. We would like to thank Drs Gupta and Brown for their interest in this report, and for giving their opinion. However they make some criticisms which we feel are are based on misunderstandings, and we would like to correct these.