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Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs » Read Now
by Samuel H. Barondes. 206 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Every day millions of people take psychiatric drugs. In Better Than Prozac Samuel Barondes considers the benefits and limitations of Prozac, Ritalin, Valium, Risperdal, and other widely used medications and the ways that superior ones are being created. In tracing the early history of these drugs...
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Every day millions of people take psychiatric drugs. In Better Than Prozac Samuel Barondes considers the benefits and limitations of Prozac, Ritalin, Valium, Risperdal, and other widely used medications and the ways that superior ones are being created. In tracing the early history of these drugs Barondes describes the accidental observations that led to their discovery and their great impact on our view of mental illness. He goes on to show how their unexpected therapeutic effects were attributed to their influence on neurotransmitters that carry signals in the brain and how this guided their improvement. But Barondes reminds us that, like the originals, current psychiatric drugs don't always work, and often have negative side effects. Furthermore, none were crafted as remedies for known brain abnormalities. In contrast, the design of the drugs of the future will be based on a different approach: an understanding of the molecular mechanisms that give rise to specific patterns of mental symptoms. Using colorful examples of contemporary research, he shows how it is gradually leading to a new generation of psychiatric medications. A lucid evaluation of psychopharmacology, Better Than Prozac offers a deep understanding of psychiatric drugs for people who take them, those who are considering them, and those who are just fascinated by the powerful effects of these simple chemicals on our thoughts and our feelings.
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Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs » Read Now
by Peter R. Breggin, David Cohen. 272 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than twenty million Americans but can these drugs do more harm than good?
While a doctor may take fifteen minutes to determine the need for a psychiatric drug, the patient may end up taking it for months, years, or a lifetime. We deserve to know the dangers in...
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Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than twenty million Americans but can these drugs do more harm than good?
While a doctor may take fifteen minutes to determine the need for a psychiatric drug, the patient may end up taking it for months, years, or a lifetime. We deserve to know the dangers in advance -- including the difficulties we may encounter when trying to withdraw. Your Drug May Be Your Problem is the only book to provide an up-to-date, uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of psychiatric medication, and it is the first and only book to explain how to coordinate a safe withdrawal from them.
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Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work (Chap. 12 "Psychotropic Medications") » Read Now
by Sonia G. Austrian. 354 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which...
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This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. In addition to including the most up-to-date information on new medications, biochemical data on disease causes, and diagnostic tests, the thoroughly updated second edition also gives an overview and critique of managed care as it relates to the treatment of mental disorders.
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Humanistic Perspectives in Medical Ethics (Chap. 10 "Medical Ethics and Psychotropic Drugs") » Read Now
by Maurice B. Visscher. 300 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...10. Medical Ethics and Psychotropic Drugs -- Mervyn F. Silverman...persons addicted to the use of psychotropic drugs are not as outmoded as the...extremely limited...
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Women and Health Psychology: Mental Health Issues (Chap. 3 "Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs" and Chap. 4 "Psychotropic Drugs: Treatment Issues") » Read Now
by Cheryl Brown Travis. 282 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...3 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS 55 Classes of Legitimate Psychotropic Drugs 57 Category...Agents 60 Other Psychotropic Drugs 60 Risks of...
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Disorders of the Schizophrenic Syndrome (Chap. 9 "Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia") » Read Now
by Leopold Bellak. 565 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...for understanding the action of psychotropic drugs today than they were believed...syndrome, currently available drugs are unable to reverse the lack...high risk. Unless...
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Psychotropic Medication in Adolescence: Psychodynamic and Clinical Considerations, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Gabriele Masi, Mara Marcheschi, Luciano Luccherino. 9 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...marked during treatment with psychotropic drugs. This study discusses the psychological...with compliance. Prescribing Psychotropic Drugs During Adolescence Informing...is...
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The Medicalization of Unhappiness, in Public Interest » Read Now
by Ronald W. Dworkin. 15 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...patients who are being given psychotropic drugs but those patients who complain...serious mental illness--with psychotropic drugs. Categories of unhappiness...justifies the...
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A Different Kind of Drug War, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara. 3 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...possible adverse effects of psychotropic drugs and to "provide information...background and data about the psychotropic drugs most likely to be prescribed...relationship...
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A Hill and Tip Trip, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara. 3 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...and requiring them to take psychotropic drugs to control any inattentive...drugging of schoolchildren with psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin. The first...the bottom" had...
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Doping Kids, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara. 6 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...among the 6 million kids now on psychotropic drugs. Just three weeks after Eric...school-age children and prescription psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin, Luvox and...data...