Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy (ePub)

"If a colleague were to ask me, "What would you recommend I read if
I want to become a real expert on bipolarity?" I would respond
Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy: Caring for the
Patient."

Journal of Bipolar Disorders

And the second edition is even better! Bipolar
Psychopharmacotherapy covers both pharmacotherapy and the
supportive role of psychotherapy, psychoeducation and social
approaches to provide a broad integrative philosophy of care for
bipolar patients. Extensive coverage is given to special management
issues such as the pharmacological care of women with bipolar
disorder, children and the elderly, as well as bipolar depression
and suicide prevention.

The mood swings that characterize bipolar disorder can now be
better stabilized in most patients than in the past, but the
illness must be carefully managed throughout a person's life.
Pharmacotherapy is central to the acute treatment and long-term
management and as there are several classes of drugs which are
often prescribed concurrently, treatment issues are complex. This
essential reference work features critical reviews of the existing
literature, plus information on new treatments that have been
reported at peer reviewed scientific meetings, often written by the
pioneering experts on a particular treatment. The second-generation
antipsychotics are now covered in separate chapters to provide
in-depth coverage of these agents. There are also new chapters on
the pharmacological treatments of mixed states and rapid cycling
and novel therapeutic vistas.