I'm currently developing a graduate psychopharmacology course geared toward
clinical grad students in our terminal M.A. program. The two books I think
best fit what I'd like to use are Lickey & Gordon's "Drugs for Mental
Illness" and "Medicine and Mental Illness" by the same authors but they are
quite dated (1983 & 1991 respectively). Most of the others are organized
around drug categories. I'd prefer one organized around disorders. I also
liked Solomon Snyder's "Drugs and the Brain" but it, too, is a bit dated and
curiously incomplete e.g., no discussion of tolerance.
I've looked at the Grilly, McKim, and Palfai & Jankiewicz texts but find
them too heavy on the pharmacology and too light on the implications for the
etiology of behavior disorders. All suggestions gratefully accepted.
Ed
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Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D., Department of Psychology,
West Chester Univ. of PA, West Chester, PA 19383
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