Case Studies: Stahl's Essential

Designed with the distinctive, user-friendly presentation Dr Stahl's audience know and love, this new stream of Stahl books capitalize on Dr Stahl's greatest strength the ability to address complex issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians. The book describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips. It follows these cases through the complete clinical encounter, from start to resolution, acknowledging all the complications, issues, decisions, twists and turns along the way. The book is about living through the treatments that work, the treatments that fail, and the mistakes made along the journey. This is psychiatry in real life these are the patients from your waiting room this book will reassure, inform and guide better clinical decision making.

The man whose antidepressants stopped working
The son who would not take a shower
The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan
The son who could not go to bed
The sleepy woman with anxiety
The woman who felt numb
The case of physician do not heal thyself
The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin
The soldier who thinks he is a 'slacker' broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq
The young man everybody was afraid to treat
The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both
The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine
The 8 year old girl who was naughty
The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD, like mother, like daughter
The doctor who couldn't keep up with his patients
The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death
The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption
The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else
The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix
The breast cancer survivor who couldn't remember how to cook
The woman who has always been out of control
The young man with depression and alcohol abuse - like father, like son, like grandfather, like father, like great grandfather, like grandfather
The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine
The boy getting kicked out of his classroom
The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive
The patient whose daughter wouldn't give up
The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself
The woman with depression whose Parkinson's Disease vanished
The depressed man who thought he was out of options
The woman who was either manic or fat
The girl who couldn't find a doctor
The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?
Suck it up, soldier, and quit whining
The young man who is failing to launch
The young cancer survivor with panic
The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him
The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge
The woman with an ever fluctuating mood
The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania
The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease
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Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

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