Overview
- Editors:
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Alan J. Gelenberg
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University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
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Ellen L. Bassuk
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The Better Homes Fund, Newton Centre, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxii
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Major Psychiatric Disorders
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- Alan J. Gelenberg, Pedro L. Delgado
Pages 19-97
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- Heather S. Hopkins, Alan J. Gelenberg
Pages 99-151
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- Alan J. Gelenberg, Samuel Keith
Pages 153-212
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- Jeffrey B. Weilburg, Heather S. Hopkins
Pages 265-287
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Psychoactive Substance Abuse
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Front Matter
Pages 289-289
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- Shelly F. Greenfield, Roger D. Weiss, Steven M. Mirin
Pages 291-363
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Special Topics
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Front Matter
Pages 365-365
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- Janet Wozniak, Joseph Biederman, Thomas Spencer, Timothy Wilens
Pages 385-415
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- Lee S. Cohen, Lori Altshuler, Vicki L. Heller, Jerrold Rosenbaum
Pages 417-440
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- Francisco Fernandez, Jorge Maldonado
Pages 441-466
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- Andrew W. Brotman, David B. Herzog, David C. Jimerson
Pages 467-481
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Back Matter
Pages 513-536
About this book
Once again, in their new edition of a classic American handbook of clinical psycho pharmacology, Drs. Gelenberg and Bassuk and their colleagues have produced a master work of sound clinical guidelines for the use of medicines as an increasingly central component of contemporary psychiatric practice. They have recruited an outstanding panel of coauthors, but have managed to maintain a high level of consistency of quality and style throughout the many chapters on specific classes of psychiatric illnesses and their corresponding treatments. The book continues to encapsulate the clinically rele vant essentials of the pharmacology of each major class of psychotropic agents in a way that clinicians can easily grasp. Moreover, it provides sound and carefully consid ered specific guidelines to diagnosis, drug selection, and dosing and patient assessment, with particularly rich presentations on the recognition and management of adverse effects. Inclusion of chapters on pediatric and geriatric populations and on topics pertaining to substance abuse disorders and medicolegal aspects of the field are unusual in books of this kind, and so are particularly valuable. Students and trainees will appreciate the handbook's well-organized and readable style, and practicing clinicans should be satisified with its balanced consideration of older, standard treatments as well as the latest medicines and trends in clinical psychopharmacology, with glimpses into future developments.
Reviews
`A valuable volume... The writing is clear and uncluttered and the material immensely practical.`
JAMA
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
Alan J. Gelenberg
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The Better Homes Fund, Newton Centre, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Ellen L. Bassuk
