J Guy Edwards, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCGP (Hon), DPM, HonMFPH, Founding Editor of Human Psychopharmacology.

Keywords: psychopharmacology EN psychopharmacology 1 2 2 01/04/23 20230101 NES 230101 Guy Edwards dedicated his life to the clinical care of patients and was a full-time NHS consultant psychiatrist in Southampton until his retirement in 1993. Guy's summary of the ethical principles supporting placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants and the way in which such studies can be carried out practically and safely in depressed patients still makes compelling reading ( I Human i I Psychopharmacology, i 1989, 4, 235-236). Guy was also an early advocate of placebo-controlled trials of new antidepressant agents at a time when this approach was unfashionable and often rejected by ethics committees. [Extracted from the article]