This is a brief but comprehensive handbook on psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy, designed for clinicians as well as for medical students and non-physician mental health professionals. Designed to help the reader think like a psychopharmacologist, the guide covers antipsycotics, antidepressants, agents for bipolar disorder, electroconvulsive therapy,agents for the treatment of generalised anxiety and insomnia, geriatric psychopharmacology, and psychopharmacologic treatment of selected disorders. The book is a revised edition of "Concise Guide to Somatic Therapies in Psychiatry".
