This highly practical pocket book covers all the major psychotropic medications describing indications, contra-indications and cautions; practical details on how to use the drug (including details on how to initiate the treatment); the side-effects to look out for; clinically important interactions with other drugs; drug monitoring and other investigations that need to take place while the patient is taking the medication; and what the patient should be told. Icons are used throughout the text making it easy to find information on the structure, dose and side-effects of each drug. Introductory chapters describe the theory behind drug use in psychiatry and the principles of psychopharmacology. The book is organised by drug class for ease of navigation.

1. Drug treatment and psychiatry; 2. The principles of psychopharmacology; 3. Non-depot antipsychotic drugs; 4. Antipsychotic depot injections; 5. Antimanic drugs; 6. Tricyclic and related antidepressant drugs; 7. Monoamine-oxidase inhibitors; 8. Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors; 9. Other antidepressant drugs; 10. Other drugs used in psychiatry

Basant K PuriProfessor and Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry and Imaging, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK