The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs

This book is a classic, it takes psychiatric medicine and helps not only the professional but the patient as well to understand the field in great detail, while at the same time keeping it all simplistic. I most strongly recommend this book.

An EXCELLENT intro to these kinds of drugs - there are very few books which cover this subject comprehensively for the layperson. Most books are either overly technical or too simplified. This book is a nice balance for those who want to know about these new "miracle" drugs with some detail. It's a bit outdated and doesn't contain much information about the newest drugs - but it's still a must-read.

Dr. Gorman provides the general public and, the medical community, information on psychiatric drugs NOT found in the gazillion other books of this type on the market. I strongly suggest this book to patients currently taking medication or considering it. You will be glad you read it.

I hope that this book can be sold to people under 18, because it has a chapter on Sex and Psychiatric Drugs which has some information that I do not recall seeing anywhere else. My dictionary does not even have a definition of priapism, a condition which may occur in only 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 men who take Desyrel (trazadone), and which, if it lasts "more than an hour may result in serious damage." I found that quite alarming, especially in conjunction with the view of a woman who complained about a husband who "just wakes me up and wants to get it over with. That's not sex. I would like a little more romance." Is this why some digital watches beep every hour?

Anything & everything you ever wanted to know about a psychiatric illness & the drug treatments for them.