The Psychopharmacologists 3 / Edition 3

by David Healy

Overview

The Psychopharmacologists 3 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 within a model of the mechanism and clinical discovery that he uses as an overall framework.



These are historical accounts but highly relevant to the clinical psychiatrist of today, emphasising the importance of research, and of the marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies in formulating disease entities as well as treatments for them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340761106
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/28/2000
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: William Miles, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book is composed of personal interviews of some of the most influential people in the field of psychopharmacology. It is the third in what is an ongoing series.
Purpose: The author provides no stated purpose for compiling the interviews. However, he makes it clear that the psychopharmacologic revolution has forever changed the approach to and treatment of mental illnesses and he feels that it is important that the ideas and thoughts of those involved in the revolution be recorded. However, he also makes it clear that there is more to this than just historical documentation. The author, in the preface, makes the argument that many ethical dilemmas presented themselves during the psychopharmacologic revolution, and that we need to apply what we have learned from these dilemmas to the ongoing research and development of new treatment modalities in psychiatry.
Audience: The book is targeted to psychiatrists and medical historians, but anyone involved the mental health field might find it interesting reading.
Features: This is not a textbook in the traditional sense, and therefore does not follow a logical, textbook-like format. The interviews and their subject matters are a diverse lot, but all are interesting and important to the field of psychiatry. Perhaps the two interviews most relevant are the one with Samuel Guze entitled "The Neo-Kraepelinian Revolution" and the one with Jean Thuillier called "Ten Years That Changed Psychiatry." Any psychiatrist practicing today should read these two interviews and discover just how influential these two men are on how psychiatry is approached and practiced.
Assessment: This book makes for fascinating reading, and is invaluable from a historical perspective. It is interesting to read first-hand accounts about such things as the discovery of amine reuptake or the synthesis of chlorpromazine. Each interview is followed by a selected bibliography, where readers can seek further reading about the subject of the interview. This book is highly recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in medical history.

Doody's Review Service

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

From the Publisher

5 Stars! from Doody