Drawn from the best-selling second edition of Essential Psychopharmacology,
Steve Stahl has revised and updated the chapters covering antipsychotics and
mood stabilizers in this separate volume. This new book covers the many
dimensions of psychosis, particularly as associated with schizophrenia, and
examines the role of dopamine in psychosis along with the various theories about
the causes, pathophysiology, and treatment of schizophrenia. New material
includes discussion of a promising new agent, aripiprazole, the first in a new
class of dopamine stabilizers; the use of anticonvulsant agents to treat manic
psychosis as well as being used as adjuncts to more traditional antipsychotic
treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia; and the newest