Hagop S. Akiskal & Mauricio Tohen 
Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy [PDF ebook] 
Caring for the Patient

‘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.

Despre autor

Hagop Akiskal is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and
Director of the International Mood Center, San Diego Veterans
Administration Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA. He
was awarded the Jean Delay prize by the World Psychiatric
Association in 2002 for research work that better bridges the gap
between biological, psychological and social aspects of psychiatry
and mental health. He has received the Gold Medal for Pioneer
Research (Society of Biological Psychiatry), the German Anna Monika
Prize for Depression, the NARSAD Prize for Affective Disorders, the
French Jules Baillarger and the Italian Aretaeus Prizes for his
research on the bipolar spectrum. He is Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Affective Disorders.

Mauricio Tohen was appointed to the Krus
endowed chair in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health
Science Centre at San Antonio in 2009. He is Chief of
the Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Centre,
San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is President of
the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (2010 –
2012). His research has focused on the clinical epidemiology
and psychopharmacological treatments of bipolar disorder. Professor
Tohen has over 200 original publications and over 500 book chapters
and scientific abstracts. He has co-edited Mood Disorders Across
the Lifespan and Textbook of Psychiatric Epidemiology,
and has also edited Comorbidity in Affective Disorders.