Psychiatric Drugs Explained: with Pageburst online access - Softcover

Healy MD FRCPsych, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070204136X ISBN 13: 9780702041365

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2011

Synopsis

This title is now available under ISBN 9780702029974.

Psychiatric Drugs Explained contains a clear and comprehensive guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs. It explains how people taking the drugs experience their side effects compared to the benefits they may bring. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to include the latest thinking on the rationale for drug treatements to help mental health professionals and service users understand therapeutic decision making.

* Organized by disorder
* Comprehensive review of drug effects, action and side-effects
* 'User issues' boxes to highlight particular problems experienced
* Website addresses to allow searching for further information
* Questionnaires to help assess side effects

Information on:
* New antipsychotic drugs and metabolic complications
* New antidepressants
* How drugs and therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy interact and compete
* Drugs that affect sexual functioning
* Evidence-based medicine

About this title

About the Author:

est psychiatre, historien de la psychiatrie, chercheur en psychopharmacologie, et directeur au North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, College of Médicine, Cardiff University, Bangor, Royaume-Uni. Il est internationalement connu pour ses recherches et écrits sur les psychotropes.

Review:

"This edition, like the others, gives a clear and easy to read review of medication used in a range of psychiatric disorders. The book is structured around treatments for severe and enduring mental illness, minor mental health problems, sleep disorders, sexual problems and dependence and withdrawal... It is a credit to Dr. Healy that he can make such a complex topic as psychopharmacology easy to read, clear and engaging. If this book seems critical of the interests of ‘big pharma’ and the complicity of professionals in generating a market for psychiatric drugs, then maybe that is no bad thing." Nurse Education in Process, May 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 070204136X
• ISBN 13: 9780702041365
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 344