Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

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

• ISBN13: 9780521182089
• ISBN10: 0521182085
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The man whose antidepressants stopped working

The son who would not take a shower

The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan

The son who could not go to bed

The sleepy woman with anxiety

The woman who felt numb

The case of physician do not heal thyself

The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin

The soldier who thinks he is a 'slacker' broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq

The young man everybody was afraid to treat

The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both

The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine

The 8 year old girl who was naughty

The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD, like mother, like daughter

The doctor who couldn't keep up with his patients

The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death

The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption

The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else

The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix

The breast cancer survivor who couldn't remember how to cook

The woman who has always been out of control

The young man with depression and alcohol abuse - like father, like son, like grandfather, like father, like great grandfather, like grandfather

The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine

The boy getting kicked out of his classroom

The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive

The patient whose daughter wouldn't give up

The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself

The woman with depression whose Parkinson's Disease vanished

The depressed man who thought he was out of options

The woman who was either manic or fat

The girl who couldn't find a doctor

The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?

Suck it up, soldier, and quit whining

The young man who is failing to launch

The young cancer survivor with panic

The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him

The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge

The woman with an ever fluctuating mood

The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania

The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease

Index

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