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Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Fast Facts

Daniel F. Connor, Bruce M. Meltzer

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Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Fast Facts 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Excellent book. Very comprehensive and worth referring to frequently for
dosage, side effects, interactions, target symptoms etc.

Excellent Textf 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent book for clinicians who treat children and adolescents with psychotropic medications. It is relatively up-to-date and user friendly. It has many useful tables and offers specific dosing and safety monitoring guidelines. We chose this book for our child psychiatry fellows as the core text of their pediatric psychopharmacology course and they also thought that it was excellent. This is not, however, a book for parents or non-medical people.

Editorial Review:

Authoritative and current information on prescribing for this critical population.

The psychopharmacological treatment of youth calls for skill in selecting drugs and doses appropriate to each developmental stage. Here dispensing physicians and allied mental health professionals are provided with precise information about all key drug classes as well as expert guidance in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in youth.

The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays

Thomas Szasz

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Editorial Review:

Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations. Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness. This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles the author's long campaign against the orthodoxies of psychiatry. From "Medicine to Magic" to "Medicine as Social Control," the book delves into the fascinating history of medicalization, including "The Discovery of Drug Addiction," "Persecutions for Witchcraft and Drugcraft," and "Food Abuse and Foodaholism." In a society that has little tolerance for those who live outside its rules, Dr. Szasz's writings are as relevant today as ever.

Ericksonian Approaches

Rubin Battino

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Comprehensive Manual - Highly Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Ericksonian Approaches is a hands-on manual that includes an overview of the field of hypnosis from its history, myths, and misconcpetions to Erickson's contributions.

You will discover the NLP techniques and interventions that emerged from Erickson's mastery.

You will learn hypnotic language patterns and a variety of induction processes. The book concludes with a whole spectrum of utilization methodologies designed to alleviate various mental and physical traumas and discomforts.

Comprehensive, worthwhile totally, wouldn't hesitate to buy again if I had to! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I paid £39.99 for this book, I'm a total novice having been studying NLP and hypnosis over 14hrs a day for the last two months (yeah I redirected a compulsive behaviour ;) ).

I've read a lot of excellent hypnosis books by now, and this one is certainly a must. Thorough coverage of language patterns was the key thing when I first looked through it, plus in that chapter an interesting discussion on "torpedo" therapy.

Various NLP tools are documented yet this is not an NLP focussed book, so excellent for those that aren't necessarily taken with the NLP approach to this work in general.

Also there are a variety of scripts and techniques from traditional to more flexible types al a Ericksonian.

There's many more things covered in this book that I've left out-lazy reviewer I guess :-). Ideomotor responses and hypnosis without trance to mention but two. A serious student of hypnosis wouldn't want to be without this one.

Editorial Review:

Includes Ericksonian approaches in medicine, dentistry, substance abuse and life-challenging diseases.

Psychotropic Drugs

Norman L. Keltner, David G. Folks

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Completely updated, the fourth edition of Psychotropic Drugs presents essential psychopharmacologic information in a comprehensive, user-friendly format. Part One consists of 23 narrative chapters that provide an overview and basic discussion of the biologic bases of psychopharmacology, as well as the uses of psychotropic drugs for specific psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Part Two contains a series of brief profiles for some of the most common psychotropic drugs, listed by generic name, for access in clinical situations. With information presented in both a comprehensive narrative style and in alphabetical drug profiles, this book can be used both as a textbook and as a handy reference.

• A two-part organization offers both narrative chapters (Part One) and succinct drug profiles (Part Two), so readers may have a choice of using the book as a textbook or as a reference.
• Clinical Psychopharmacology overview provides an introduction to psychotropic drugs, including chapters on psychiatric care as related to pharmacologic treatment, and a review of neuroanatomy.
• Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs includes chapters on psychiatric care as related to pharmacologic treatment, cultural and ethnic factors in psychopharmacology, and a review of neuroanatomy. It reviews neurologic function for those who are a bit "rusty," and challenges those who are more conversant with brain biology.
• Drugs Used in the Treatment of Mental Disorders focuses on the major categories of drugs used in psychiatric care.
• Drug Issues Related to Psychopharmacology reviews electroconvulsive therapy, drugs of abuse, central nervous system stimulants, drugs used in alternative and complementary medicine, and drugs used to treat extrapyramidal side effects of psychotropic drugs.
• Developmental Issues Related to Psychotropic Drugs includes chapters on the psychopharmacologic treatment of children, adolescents, and elderly persons, to reinforce the age-related issues associated with pharmacologic interventions.
• Psychotropic Drug Profiles features quick, handy profiles for some of the most commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs. Each drug is profiled according to categories such as classification, indications, contraindications, pharmacokinetics, and interactions. Trade names have been expanded and updated.

• New Culture, ethics, and psychopharmacology chapter calls special attention to ethnic and cultural factors which are imperative to the efficacy and effectiveness of psychopharmacology.
• New Drugs for depressive disorders chapter provides intensive coverage of drugs used to treat depressive disorders, including side effects, treatment implications, and herbal treatments.
• New Drugs for bipolar disorders chapter reviews drugs used to treat bipolar disorders, including pharmacokinetics, side effects, and treatment implications.
• New Drugs used in alternative and complementary medicine chapter presents content on alternative pharmacologic methods utilized by many psychiatric patients worldwide, including the latest herbal and therapeutic methods.
• New and hot drug coverage includes escitalopram and galantamine.

The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care

JoEllen Patterson, A. Ari Albala, Margaret E. McCahill, Todd M. Edwards

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Very helpful, but some info too basic 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This guide is very helpful. The emphasis on how to work with medical doctors and medical conditions is great. Some of the info was too basic for anyone with recent psychopharmacology training.

Great read, fast service! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was well worth the money. It was easy to read and provided really great insight from different mental health professionals within the field. It is a nice investment for psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, and medical doctors that inevitably encounter issues regarding mental health.
I enjoyed the "whole"istic approach and highly recommend this book.

Editorial Review:

This indispensable book provides therapists and counselors with crucial knowledge about psychotropic medications: when and how to make medication referrals, how to help patients handle questions and problems that arise, and how to combine medication and psychotherapy effectively. Ideal for readers without extensive background in neurobiology, the book clearly explains how medications work in the brain and how they affect an individual's emotions, behavior, and relationships. Particular attention is given to strategies for collaborating successfully with prescribers. The authors also emphasize the important role that family members play in medication decision making and discuss ways to involve them in treatment.

Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

Alison Bass

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As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Alison Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research stunned readers, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiatrists earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Now she turns her investigative skills to a controversial case that exposed the increased suicide rates among adolescents taking antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft.

Side Effects tells the tale of a gutsy assistant attorney general who, along with an unlikely whistle-blower at an Ivy League university, uncovered evidence of deception behind one of the most successful drug campaigns in history. Paxil was the world's bestselling antidepressant in 2002. Pediatric prescriptions soared, even though there was no proof that the drug performed any better than sugar pills in treating children and adolescents, and the real risks the drugs posed were withheld from the public. The New York State Attorney General's office brought an unprecedented lawsuit against giant manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Paxil, for consumer fraud. The successful suit launched a tidal wave of protest that changed the way drugs are tested, sold, and marketed in this country.

With meticulous research, Alison Bass shows us the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry. She lays bare the unhealthy ties between the medical establishment, big pharma, and the FDA—relationships that place vulnerable children and adults at risk every day.

Advances in Pharmacology

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Drug–Drug Interactions is a comprehensive review of the scientific and regulatory perspectives of drug–drug interactions from the point-of-view of academia, industry, and government regulatory agencies. This book is intended for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, health care, and governmental regulatory agencies. Topics of interest include the mechanistic understanding of drug–drug interactions, the prediction of drug–drug interaction potential of new drugs, and the avoidance of clinically significant drug–drug interaction in patients.

Key Features
* Provides useful references on the science of drug-drug interactions
* Describes in a basic and comprehensive manner drug-drug interactions from the mechanistic viewpoint
* Contains original data from academic and industrial laboratories
* Presents an overview of regulatory agency positions

Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Essential Psychopharmacology Series)

Stephen M. Stahl, Nancy Muntner

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No wonder I'm not a brain doctor 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Fabulous, interesting, understandably written, and highly technical, current information. As a long time member of the bipolar community, I constantly search for information that will help me to understand my disorder, express the causes and effects to other consumers and interested parties and to be more fully capable of being a proactive consumer with my medical professionals. The book is an easy read, can be put down when your brain is reaching max capacity and picked up like you never lost a beat.

Highly recommended for all consumers, medical professionals and educators dealing with mental illnesses.

Editorial Review:

Essential Psychopharmacology has established itself as the preeminent source of information in its field, and this book draws on the second edition to provide a resource for all clinicians involved in the treatment of depression and bipolar disorder. Stressing the basic neuroscience of the mood disorders, the fully updated text and color illustrations enable readers to understand how the various antidepressants and mood stabilizers work in their patients. It contains new information on the pharmacokinetics of antidepressants, including the role of the cytochrome P450 enzyme system and neuropeptides including substance P. The mechanisms of action of newer antidepressants, including the latest SSRIs, are prominently and authoritatively reviewed. Psychiatrists, primary care physicians and mental health professionals can depend on this book for an up-to-date account of the psychopharmacology of mood disorders, and for essential information in planning treatment approaches.

Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health

William Glasser

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

lots of opinions and guesses, few facts 1 out of 5 stars.
7 of 12 people found this review helpful.

The cover and overviews make reference to Glasser's book being supported by facts. So, I was looking forward to it. Unfortunately, it is short on facts and long on his opinions.

Such as where he states that "PERHAPS up to 50% of schizophrenics recover without medical help." Perhaps??? That's a very glib statement supported by a "perhaps."

In one case where he cites a health statistic, it covers the period "from the 1930s to the 1990s" and is used to discredit medications. His citing of such shows a disregard for evidence or his being terribly out of date in the medical field. I suspect it is the latter. Information from the 1930s and 40s and 50s?? That was the "dark ages" for most all medications, let alone for psychiatric medications which have only begun to have treatment break throughs in the 1990s. Referencing info from then is like saying "we proved in 1805 that mankind could not build airplanes that fly, so why don't people stop trying to build them."

A careful reading of what is written and how it is written seems to indicate that he has reached a foregone conclusion and is picking and choosing some evidence to support his opinion. But mainly he uses argument and rhetoric to support it.

Don't bother with this book. It's another one of those "I'm the only man in the world who knows anything, so buy my book."

Editorial Review:

How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved.

William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the last few years. Millions of patients are now routinely being given prescriptions for a wide range of drugs including Ritalin, Prosac, Zoloft and related drugs which can be harmful to the brain. A previous generation of patients would have had a course of psychotherapy without brain–damaging chemicals. Glasser explains the wide implications of this radical change in treatment and what can be done to counter it.

Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology

Sandra A. Jacobson, Ronald W. Pies, Ira R. Katz

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What do clinicians need to know to safely and effectively prescribe psychotropic medications to elderly patients? Understanding the complex pharmacological changes that occur with aging is critical to informed prescribingAyet much of today's practice in geriatric prescribing continues to be based on anecdotal evidence and case report data, instead of on much-needed controlled research studies. Navigating the vast database in geriatric psychopharmacology is a daunting task at best, leaving many clinicians overwhelmed and confusedAand opening the door to potentially dangerous consequences for some of our most fragile patients. Clinicians can now turn to this definitive handbook for answers. Here, three experienced pharmacologists provide a truly practical Ahow toA guide to prescribing medications in the geriatric population, drawing on their own clinical experience and their reading of the literature in geriatric psychopharmacology. Unlike other hardcover-only references in this field, this concise handbook is replete with valuable advice (e.g., drug dosing, titration) for day-to-day clinical practice, including strategies for improving compliance among the elderly. Also included are unique quick-reference summaries of prescribing data on selected drugs in each class. -The introduction focuses on the essentials of geriatric pharmacokinetics and a general approach to geriatric prescribing, offering guidelines on how to improve compliance in the elderly. -The next four chapters each cover a major psychotropic class of medicationsAantipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and anxiolytic and sedative-hypnotic medicationsAincluding information about pharmacology (baseline labs), clinical use (drug titration), side effects, and treatment. Here, at the end of each of these chapters, you'll find the unique Aquick-referenceA summaries of prescribing data for selected drugs in each class. -Also detailed here are three critical areas of geriatric psychopharmacologyAtreatment of substance-related disorders, movement disorders, and dementias and other cognitive syndromesAareas that do not fit well into the traditional organization of psychopharmacology books and that therefore have seldom been the subject of in-depth discussions elsewhere in the literature. Written for residents, fellows, and clinicians in psychiatry and medicine who diagnose and treat psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions that can affect geriatric patients, this clinical reference can be used across all treatment settings for the elderly (inpatient, outpatient, day hospital, consultation, and nursing homes). Geriatric and general psychiatrists, geriatric medical specialists, internists and family practitioners, medical students and residents, and case managers and social workers will all rely on this handy guide for the critical information needed to provide optimal care for our fast-growing population of elderly patients.