Table of Contents

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1 - Introduction: A Perspective on Contemporary Psychiatry as a Background to Psychopharmacology

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2 - The Mental Status Examination

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3 - Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients and the Acute Treatment of Psychotropic Drug Overdose

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4 - Dissociative, Somatoform, and Paranoid Disorders

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5 - Delirium and Dementia

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6 - Obsessions and Compulsions and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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7 - Tics, Tourette Disorder, and Related Problems

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8 - Disorders of Eating: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder

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9 - Treatment of Physical Dependence on Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, and other Sedative-Hypnotics

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10 - Opioid Abuse and Dependence: Acute and Chronic Treatment

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11 - Alcoholism and Its Treatment

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12 - Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal

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13 - Pharmacologic Treatment of Personality Disorders: A Dimensional Approach

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14 - Approaches to the Treatment of Anxiety States

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15 - Treatment of Transient Insomnia

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16 - Bereavement Reactions and Grief

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17 - Assessment and Treatment of Suicide Risk

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18 - Approaches to the Treatment of Depression

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19 - Approaches to the Treatment of Manic-Depressive States (Bipolar Disorders)

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20 - Approaches to the Treatment of Schizophrenia

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21 - Approaches to the Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Children and Youth

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22 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Youth and Adults

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23 - Medical Uses of Hypnosis

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24 - Electroconvulsive Therapy

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25 - Seclusion as a Treatment Modality

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26 - Use of Physical Restraints as an Emergency Treatment

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27 - Rape and Sexual Assault

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28 - Understanding and Assessing Pain and Pain Syndromes

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29 - Drug Interactions in Psychopharmacology

Back of Book

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Resources

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Appendices

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I - Use of Approved Drugs for Unlabeled Indications

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II - Herbal Remedies, Over-the-Counter Drugs, and the Food and Drug Administration: A Perspective

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III - A Prototypical Outline of the Mental Status Examination

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IV - A Technique for Promoting the Relaxation Response

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V - The Mini-Mental State Examination

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VI - The Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire

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VII - Algorithms For Psychopharmacology