Since 1996, students and mental health professionals across the world have turned
to Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology as the single most readable source of
information on the fundamentals of psychopharmacology, disease and drug
mechanisms. 25 years later, the fifth edition of this bestselling book continues
Dr Stahl’s proud legacy of helping readers to understand and utilize current
therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications.
Long established as the preeminent source in its field, the eagerly anticipated fifth
edition of Dr. Stahl’s essential textbook of psychopharmacology is here! With its use
of icons and figures that form Dr. Stahl’s unique “visual language,” the book is the
single most readable source of information on disease and drug mechanisms for all
students and mental health professionals seeking to understand and utilize current
therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications.
Every aspect of the book has been updated, with the clarity of explanation that
only Dr. Stahl can bring. The new edition includes over 500 new or refreshed figures,
an intuitive color scheme, 14 new uses for older drugs and 18 brand new drugs,
coverage of Parkinson’s disease psychosis, behavioral symptoms of dementia, and
mixed features in major depressive episodes, and expanded information on the
medical uses of cannabis and hallucinogen-assisted psychotherapy.