Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

Describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips.

Stephen M. Stahl (Author), Debbi A. Morrissette (Edited by), Nancy Muntner (Illustrated by)

9780521182089, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

500 pages
22.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.74 kg

'The case studies accurately reflect the complicated nature of the patients that we encounter in our practices … This novel book helps us look inside the mind of a seasoned psychopharmacologist and how he bridges the gap between research and clinical practice.' Doody's Notes

Designed with the distinctive, user-friendly presentation Dr Stahl's audience know and love, this new stream of Stahl books capitalize on Dr Stahl's greatest strength - the ability to address complex issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians. The book describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips. It follows these cases through the complete clinical encounter, from start to resolution, acknowledging all the complications, issues, decisions, twists and turns along the way. The book is about living through the treatments that work, the treatments that fail, and the mistakes made along the journey. This is psychiatry in real life – these are the patients from your waiting room – this book will reassure, inform and guide better clinical decision making.

1. The man whose antidepressants stopped working
2. The son who would not take a shower
3. The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan
4. The son who could not go to bed
5. The sleepy woman with anxiety
6. The woman who felt numb
7. The case of physician do not heal thyself
8. The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin
9. The soldier who thinks he is a 'slacker' broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq
10. The young man everybody was afraid to treat
11. The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both
12. The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine
13. The 8-year-old girl who was naughty
14. The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD, like mother, like daughter
15. The doctor who couldn't keep up with his patients
16. The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death
17. The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption
18. The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else
19. The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix
20. The breast cancer survivor who couldn't remember how to cook
21. The woman who has always been out of control
22. The young man with depression and alcohol abuse - like father, like son, like grandfather, like father, like great grandfather, like grandfather
23. The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine
24. The boy getting kicked out of his classroom
25. The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive
26. The patient whose daughter wouldn't give up
27. The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself
28. The woman with depression whose Parkinson's Disease vanished
29. The depressed man who thought he was out of options
30. The woman who was either manic or fat
31. The girl who couldn't find a doctor
32. The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?
33. Suck it up, soldier, and quit whining
34. The young man who is failing to launch
35. The young cancer survivor with panic
36. The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him
37. The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge
38. The woman with an ever fluctuating mood
39. The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania
40. The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease
Index.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH], Pharmacology [MMG]