Author Description

This edition offers extensively updated chapters with new sections and summary tables for quick reference, including the latest information on antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, antianxiety agents, hypnotics, and stimulants. This comprehensive clinical guide emphasizes practical advice derived from the authors' extensive clinical experience in evaluating and understanding psychiatric patients, with general principle of psychopharmacological treatment, including advice on legal, ethical, and economic issues.