Title: Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
Abstract: Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications . By stephen m stahl (Pp 601, £39.95). Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN0-521-64615-4.
Psychiatry is a strange clinical subject. It has by far the smallest knowledge base of any of the major subspecialties yet the arguments over what should enter curricula and what should be in our postgraduate examinationss are as fierce as in any other Royal College. There are major requirements—for example, to understand psychotherapy and psychological treatments. Yet as a treatment tool they still play a subordinate role to biological treatments in most settings for the management of the severely mentally ill. …