Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Volume 3

A brand new selection of clinical stories covering psychiatric treatments that work and fail, and mistakes made along the journey.

Takesha Cooper (Edited by), Gerald Maguire (Edited by), Stephen Stahl (Edited by)

9781009012898, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2021

448 pages
22.7 x 13.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.64 kg

'This book offers readers a comprehensive approach to complex, real world psychopharmacological dilemmas based on actual clinical cases that are followed over time. Each case identifies critical questions at important junctures of treatment and expertly breaks down the thought processes involved in decision making of challenging yet common and recognizable clinical scenarios. The authors demonstrate how to apply the art and science of psychopharmacology with careful in-depth dissections of each case, outside of the box thinking and a large dose of humility. Readers will appreciate the case discussions where authors share their confessions as psychopharmacologists and retrospective self-assessments of what they could have done better. Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology distils years of clinical experience with up-to-date clinical psychopharmacology into a practical text for all psychiatric practitioners.' Poh Choo How, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento

Following the success of the first two volumes in Stahl's Case Studies series, a brand new collection of clinical stories have been collated in Volume 3, derived from cases seen by medical students, residents and faculty from the University of California at Riverside (UCR) Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The highly popular and unique user-friendly presentation of previous volumes has been maintained, with extensive use of icons, questions/answers, and tips. The cases address multifaceted issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians. Covering a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, each case is followed 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.

1. The case: Wearing down a diagnosis Karen Clarey, Stephanie Wong and Takesha Cooper
2. The case: The woman who couldn't handle her lips smacking any longer Douglas Grover and Christopher G. Fichtner
3. The case: The depressed bipolar patient on multiple medications Dale Hoang, Catherin Ha and Peter Hauser
4. The case: The agitated patient who finally wasn't Alexander J Mageno, Nekisa Haghighat, Arthur Leitzke
5. The case: The George that was not psychotic but anxious and distracted Edgar Ortega, Michael Seigler and Takesha Cooper
6. The case: The man who saw enemies everywhere Joshua Poole and Stephen Maurer
7. The case: The young woman with psychosis complicated by substance use and history of TBI Harika Reddy, Austin Nguy and Sana Johnson-Quijada
8. The case: The woman with worsening psychosis and a mysterious rash Sireena Sy, Yatna Patel and Alexander Thanh Nguyen
9. The case: The man without a plan Alfonso Vera and Gerald Maguire
10. The case: The anxious depressed woman who couldn't sit still Nekisa Haghighat, Charity Hall, Dennis Alters and Gerald Maguire
11. The case: The man who thinks it's the end of the world Erin Fletcher, Evagelos Coskinas and Phuong Vo
12. The case: Sunny with a chance of depression Madeline Saavedra, Bo Ram Yoo, Douglas Grover and Christopher G. Fichtner
13. The case: A not-so-simple case of anxiety Karla P. Furlong, Roberto Castaños and Bo Ram Yoo
14. The case: I'm a woman in a man's body Sarah Grace, Matt Jason V. Llamas and Jami Woods
15. The case: The spacey, fidgety son with overwhelming sadness Niya Larios, Casey Lester and Carl Feinstein
16. The case: The man who spent thousands online Saloni Singh
17. The case: The traumatized mother who can't stop bingeing Kevin Simonson and Bo Ram Yoo
18. The case: The man who could not stop hitting people Angharad Ames and Lawrence Faziola
19. The case: Brexpiprazole: 'An awakening' Troy Kurz, Lauren Kurz and ***Kamal
20. The case: Treatment resistant depression and opioid dependence Kevin Simonson and Alexander H. Truong
21. The case: Stiff patient Angharad Ames, Joshua Valverde and Gerald Maguire
22. The case: An adolescent awakening Monish Parmar and Richard J. Lee
23. The case: The peace keeper with a left breast mass Diem Nguyen and Brenda Jensen
24. The case: The girl who slept with problems Joseph Yasmeh and Ijeoma Ijeaku
25. The case: Not all child's play: a path to pediatric stability Joseph Wong, Justine Ku and Takesha Cooper
26. The case: The young woman who was 'nothing but skin and bones. Kayla L. Fisher and Michelle Tom
27. The case: Could it be both? Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses Ruqayyah Malik, Margaret Yau and Dennis Alters
28. The case: Treatment-emergent mania/hypomania in a depressed patient Kevin Truong and Lawrence Yu
29. The case: The border between mood and personality Phuong Vo and Ijeoma Ijeaku
30. The case: The student that wanted to go to rehab Eduardo Javier, Louis May and Martin Sahakyan
31. The case: The boy who wouldn't (couldn't) listen Alexander J Mageno, Bo Ram Yoo and Richard J. Lee
32. The case: The patient that went streaking Louis May, Martin Sahakyan and Eduardo Javier
33. The case: 'Perseverance' Kathleen Lopez, Courtney DiNicola and Niraj Gupta
34. The case: Clozapine candidate discombobulates compassionate clinicians Darian Vernon, Nishant Prakash and Niraj Gupta.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH], Pharmacology [MMG]