Lithium Withdrawal Triggers Psychosis

1 October 1982

journal article
review article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 141 (4) , 407-410
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.141.4.407

Abstract

Summary: Four healthy people on lithium for manic depressive liability relapsed within 14 days of the drug being secretly replaced by placebo. Their new manic attacks were at least as severe as any of their previous episodes.

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