Prescriber’s guide to Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology

This Guide is intended to complement Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology. Stahl’s
Essential Psychopharmacology emphasizes mechanisms of action and how psychotropic
drugs work upon receptors and enzymes in the brain. This guide gives practical
information on how to use these drugs in clinical practice.
It would be impossible to include all available information about any drug in a
single work, and no attempt is made here to be comprehensive. The purpose of
this guide is instead to integrate the art of clinical practice with the science of
psychopharmacology. That means including only essential facts in order to keep
things short. Unfortunately that also means excluding less critical facts as well as
extraneous information, which may nevertheless be useful to the reader but would
make the book too long and dilute the most important information. In deciding
what to include and what to omit, the author has drawn upon common sense and
30 years of clinical experience with patients. He has also consulted with many
experienced clinicians and analyzed the evidence from controlled clinical trials
and regulatory filings with government agencies.