From the Editor

How does ChatGPT compare to a human therapist for CBT? How often is lithium – arguably the gold standard medication for bipolar disorder – prescribed in Canada? Do young patients do as well as adults with psychotherapy?

In the coming weeks, we will look at papers that attempt to answer these important questions. But today’s Reading is the last one before the Labour Day weekend. 

Instead, in a break from our usual format, I offer a few things you may choose to read from a comfortable chair by a lake or, perhaps, in the quiet of a call room if you are working (and a quick thanks to my colleagues for covering my inpatients this long weekend).

This week, there are no detailed descriptions nor commentary. I provide short summaries and an invitation to read one, two, or three of these longer pieces.

DG

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