The use and misuse of psychiatric drugs
Subtitle: an evidence-based critique
By: Joel Paris
Contributors: Wiley online library
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780470666630; 9780470666623; 9780470745717
Subjects: Evidence-Based Practice; Evidence-based psychiatry; Psychotropic drugs; Psychopharmacology; Psychotropic Drugs; Standards
Description: The message of this book is that psychiatrists have some very good drugs, but can expect bad results when they are over-used, prescribed outside of evidence-based indications, or given to the wrong patients. While acknowledging that many current agents are highly effective and have revolutionized the treatment of certain disorders, Joel Paris criticizes their use outside of an evidence base. Too many patients are either over-medicated or are misdiagnosed to justify aggressive treatment. Dr. Paris calls for more government funding of clinical trials to establish, without bias, the effectiven.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-193) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Matter; title: Overview. The History of Psychopharmacology; title: The Science of Psychopharmacology; title: The Pharmaceutical Industry; title: Drugs in Practice. Antipsychotics: For Better or For Worse; title: Mood Stabilizers and Mood Instability; title: Antidepressants; title: Prescribing for Children and Adolescents; title: Polypharmacy; title: Perspectives. Alternatives to Drugs; title: Medicalizing Distress; title: The Future of Psychopharmacology; title: References; title: Index.; title: The history of psychopharmacology; title: The science of psychopharmacology; title: The pharmaceutical industry; title: Antipsychotics : for better and for worse; title: Mood stabilizers and mood instability; title: Antidepressants and anxiolytics; title: Prescribing for children and adolescents; title: The path to polypharmacy; title: Alternatives to drugs; title: Medicalizing distress; title: The future of psychopharmacology.