Ed,
I use Palfai & Jankiewicz because it is easy reading for our addiction
counseling concentration undergraduates.
I also like the fact that it has a lot of history of drugs in it. All such
books will be dated almost as soon as the come off the presses. That gives
me something to do from day to day in terms of literature searches to bring
things up to date.
Al
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pollak, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:01 PM
To: 'Tips (post)'
Subject: Psychopharmacology Text
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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