Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology

This comprehensive clinical guide emphasizes practical advice i.e., specific recommendations about dosing, titration, and combining medications derived from the authors extensive clinical experience. It begins with general principles of psychopharmacological treatment, including advice on legal, ethical, and economic issues. Subsequent chapters cover past, current, and future treatments for all major classes of medications, including mechanisms of action and pharmacokinetics. It also features chapters on augmentation strategies for treatment resistant disorders, emergency room treatment, pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders, and special topics such as pregnancy and mental retardation, with a fascinating final chapter on herbals and dietary supplements. With its liberal use of tables and illustrations, and dual appendices on medication strengths and costs and suggested readings, this up-to-date, practical manual will be warmly welcomed by not only practitioners, but also students (including those in nursing and pharmacy) and psychopharmacology residents.

Charles DeBattista is Associate Professor and Chief of Depression Clinic, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.