The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs

by Jack M. Gorman

Book Overview

More than 150,000 copies in print, 4th Edition
GET THE FACTS. GET THE BEST TREATMENT. GET BETTER

The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs has become a classic and indispensable resource for the layperson and professional alike. Informative, accessible, and easy to use, this newly revised and updated resource presents comprehensive information on the latest drugs and research, covering most adult mental health problems. It also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312368798
• ISBN13: 9780312368791
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding book

This book is a classic, it takes psychiatric medicine and helps not only the professional but the patient as well to understand the field in great detail, while at the same time keeping it all simplistic. I most strongly recommend this book.

a bit outdated. but still the best guide in its field

An EXCELLENT intro to these kinds of drugs - there are very few books which cover this subject comprehensively for the layperson. Most books are either overly technical or too simplified. This book is a nice balance for those who want to know about these new "miracle" drugs with some detail. It's a bit outdated and doesn't contain much information about the newest drugs - but it's still a must-read.

COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE

Dr. Gorman provides the general public and, the medical community, information on psychiatric drugs NOT found in the gazillion other books of this type on the market. I strongly suggest this book to patients currently taking medication or considering it. You will be glad you read it.

Don't Ask Me; I just read this stuff.

I hope that this book can be sold to people under 18, because it has a chapter on Sex and Psychiatric Drugs which has some information that I do not recall seeing anywhere else. My dictionary does not even have a definition of priapism, a condition which may occur in only 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 men who take Desyrel (trazadone), and which, if it lasts "more than an hour may result in serious damage." I found that quite alarming, especially in conjunction with the view of a woman who complained about a husband who "just wakes me up and wants to get it over with. That's not sex. I would like a little more romance." Is this why some digital watches beep every hour?

Absolutely the greatest informational book.

Anything & everything you ever wanted to know about a psychiatric illness & the drug treatments for them.