Chemotherapy in Psychiatry: Pharmacologic Basis of Treatments for Major Mental Illness

by Ross J. Baldessarini

Book Overview

Use of psychotropic drugs has come to dominate clinical practice in psychiatry worldwide--perhaps owing largely to perceived simplicity, ease of use, and apparent efficiency, as well as apparent cost-effectiveness of such treatments. Nevertheless, medicinal treatments for patients with psychiatric disorders are but one component of comprehensive clinical care of complex human problems. Extensively updated since its second edition in 1985, Chemotherapy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461479266
• ISBN13: 9781461479260
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"