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The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs, Revised

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Great as a reference with good lay language. Not exactly something you'd take to the beach with you but with such a huge percentage of the population on psychotropics, pretty informative. Definitely worth buying whether you are a patient, a relative or friend of a patient, a non-psychiatric clinician, a mental health worker or, I daresay, even a psychiatrist!

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.

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.

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

The information is useful and common but quite outdated. The more updated information can be searched from the internet.

This is by far the best book I have found on the susbject of psychiatric drugs. Dr Gorman is very knowledgeable and tells it like it is, which the drug companies do not always do.

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 It's a bit outdated and doesn't contain much information about the newest drugs - but it's still a must-read.

One glaring omission is that he fails to mention that SSRIs can cause permanent sexual side effects even after discontinuance. Long overlooked by the medical community. Do google search for details.

Jack Gorman is slick. He is Glib. He is dishonest. So is his so called book. He has been in trouble for being a state employee and being on drug companies' payroll. It is only fitting that now he has lost his medical license. This guy was having sex with at least one if not many patient and then tried to commit suicide when it came to light. I will give him zero stars.

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?