Psychiatric Drugs Explained - Softcover

Healy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702029971 ISBN 13: 9780702029974

Verlag: Churchill Livingstone, 2008

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This version is now out of print. An edition with e-book is available under ISBN 97880702041365.

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

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Churchill Livingstone
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0702029971
• ISBN 13: 9780702029974
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 335
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien