Overview

This text completes a trio of interview-based books about the process of therapeutic innovation in clinical psychiatry. David Healy's method is to interview key individuals involved in the discovery and deployment of drugs that have proved useful to psychiatry, and to draw them together using clinical discovery as the overall theme of his interviews. The accounts are historical, but are highly relevant to contemporary clinical psychiatrists, and they emphasize the importance of research and of the marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies in formulating disease entities as well as treatments for them. The unifying theme of this third text is the role of receptors, and it includes coverage of international developments, including France, Eastern Europe and Japan. There is also a chapter on paediatric psychopharmacology.

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Author:   David Healy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.861kg
ISBN:  

9780340761106

ISBN 10:   0340761105
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   28 July 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Exploring a New World: The Birth of Psychopharmacology A Psychpharmacology That Nearly Was The Psychopharmacology of Life & Death The Catecholamine Hypothesis Catatonia, Pink Sport & Antipsychiatry Receptors & Chemists Receptors & Classical Pharmacology The Receptor Enters Psychiatry 1 The Receptor Enters Psychiatry 2 Visualising Receptors & Beyond From the Presynaptic Neurone to The Receptor to The Nucleus The Discovery of the Psychotropic Effects of Carbamazepine Psychopharmaceuticals in Japan Neurotransmitter Research in Japan Childhood Psychopharmacology Phenomenology, Psychopharmacotherapy & Child Psychiatry From DDT to Imipramine Forty-Four Years of Psychiatry & Psychopharmacology The Neo-Kraepelinian Revolution A Manual for Diagnosis and Statistics Neglected Discipleines in Psychpharmacology: Pharmaco-EEG & Electroshock The Hypnotic Business Angles on Panic From Neuroleptics to Antipsychotics Twenty-First Century Drug Development Ten Years That Changes Psychiatry.

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This is the third volume of a series of interviews with psychopharmacologists conducted by David Healy. These oral histories give the reader a fresh and personal view of the progress made in psychopharmacology over the past few decades. New England Journal of Medicine A book that should have a place in any good medical library so that budding psychopharmacologists and neuroscientists can appreciate the interpenetration of history and biography in the origins of their field. Addiction Biology

This is the third volume of a series of interviews with psychopharmacologists conducted by David Healy. These oral histories give the reader a fresh and personal view of the progress made in psychopharmacology over the past few decades. -- New England Journal of Medicine A book that should have a place in any good medical library so that budding psychopharmacologists and neuroscientists can appreciate the interpenetration of history and biography in the origins of their field. -- Addiction Biology

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