Introduction/Lithium in the Treatment of Manic-Depressive Illness: An Update

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This Supplement of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry represents a summary of aclosed meeting held May 30-31, 1997, in Sea Island, Georgia. The impetus for this meeting was a simple one. My colleagues and I have, in recent years, become aware of theincreasing disfavor with lithium therapy among our young colleagues and trainees.