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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
For many years, we have taught clinical psychopharmacology to residents in psychiatry, neurology, and medicine, as well as to medical students, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and social workers. We have also maintained active clinical practices and research programs. It is our hope that these experiences have produced a book that will serve as a resource in antidepressant therapy for clinicians from many different disciplines. The purpose of Pharmacotherapy of Depression is to provide a compreh- sive overview of antidepressant therapy for clinicians. The contents have evolved from our years of seminars, lectures, and case discussions with our trainees and from our continuing medical education programs. We have tried to provide sufficient depth in reviews of the research literature to support clinical rec- mendations without burdening the reader with information that has little r- evance to the clinical use of antidepressants. We are indebted to the outstanding clinician scientists who have contributed to this volume and to our students who have guided us in its development. We hope that the reader will find that the final product represents a solid foundation for clinicians who are, or will be, prescribing antidepressants. It comes very close to replicating the formal didactics that our trainees experience. Although in practice we supplement this with intensive supervision of patient management, we hope that Pharmacotherapy of Depression will stand alone as a guide to the use of medications for the treatment of depressive illness.
Reviews
"This is good review of the literature for practicing psychiatrists. . .An added bonus is an electronic edition of the book provided on CD-ROM. Topics covered include an overview of biological theories of depression, a general review of the clinical pharmacology of antidepressants, treatment of geriatric depression, bipolar disorder, depression in psychotic disorders, substance abuse and depression, depression in HIV, diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy and lactation, PTSD, and treatment of children and adolescents. Each chapter is referenced with relevant and timely citations of the literature. The index section is helpful.."-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
"...the book is clearly written as a sensible guide for clinicians, and many of the chapters directly address readers with straightforward instructions about what to think about, what to look out for, and what to do." - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
"...the book is clearly written as a sensible guide for clinicians, and many of the chapters directly address readers with straightforward instructions about what to think about, what to look out for, and what to do." - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pharmacotherapy of Depression
Editors: Domenic A. Ciraulo, Richard I. Shader
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-792-5
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-792-5Published: 28 April 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 349
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychiatry