Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Very valuable reference, for up to date information abut medications, their pharmacology, and clinical uses. Contains discussion of the use of classes of agents and reviews clinical issues that assist with selection of individual medications. Because the material is well organized, finding answers to specific questions is not difficult.

It's a great update. It does what it does well, but has a narrow scope with little in pain alcohol epilepsy and ADHD as examples. It does the classic stuff well and is ahead of the Stahl update. It's not the full textbook so the cover is deceptive.

Not particularly detailed or with useful pearls from experience. Seems to have been written in a hurry. You'd do better with the free PDR.

This is a well written, comprehensive psychopharmacology text. The associated online self-assessment is an excellent review for exams and boards.

Probably the worst textbook I have ever had to study. There is ZERO editing. Every chapter is essentially in a different format. There is no logic to the length of chapters. Some individual SSRIs get 25+ pages while ALL benzos are covered in 4-5 pages without any mention of individual meds. Most chapters are just a haphazard collection of random abstracts, again with ZERO editing, interpretation or context. Each individual SSRI gets its own 20+ pages but there is no comparasion, contrasting or tables. Omits important infomation despite its huge page count, e.g. the chapter on Citalopram does not mention QT prolongation at all! Some chapters seem very BIASED, the chapter on benzos essentially says these meds have no side effects and do not cause addiction!!! Pretty much every chapter on individual meds says it is the best medication ever. Most chapters feel like they were written by bored med students or interns. Again, offers ZERO summarization, interpretation, recommendation or insight, things you would normally expect from a textbook. The worst thing is that there does not seem to be any alternatives on the market to this one! I have not studied Stahl's one this deeply but that one also seems very biased and full of author's own unproven conjectures presented as fact. (I am a second year psychiatry resident).

This is an essential book. Readability and presentation were helpful.

Good

This book does not explain psychopharmacology very well if you do not have a background in the subject. It has a lot of case studies which are helpful but does not explain the basics