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ArticleAustralasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists2024

Practical psychiatry: On therapeutic equipoise - Principles of a balanced approach to psychiatric treatments.

Jeffrey Cl Looi, Stephen Allison, Luke Woon, Tarun Bastiampillai

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Article in Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jeffrey Cl LooiAcademic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, The Australian National University, School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis, Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3351-6911
Stephen AllisonConsortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9264-5310
Luke WoonAcademic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, The Australian National University, School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-8216-0694
Tarun BastiampillaiAcademic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra Hospital, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; and Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6931-2913

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThere are many burgeoning treatments, and a large range of therapeutic options for 21

conclusionsTherapeutic equipoise, for psychiatric care, is an aspiration rather than a position easily achieved. In day-to-day clinical practice, there will be unexpected demands and barriers that cannot always be accommodated or surmounted. Psychiatrists can work collaboratively with patients, carers, and colleagues in conceptualising and care-planning to avoid extremes of therapeutic hubris and despair, and to adapt evidence-based care more effectively so that it is suited to the patient and their circumstances.

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PsychiatryTherapeutic EquipoiseCaregiversHumansPsychotherapyevidence-based medicinepsychiatric treatmenttherapeutic equipoise

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PMCPMC10809724

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