Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Volume 3

Takesha Cooper, Gerald Maguire, Stephen Stahl

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781009012898
• eBook ISBN: 9781009028042
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Psychiatry & Mental Health

Following the success of the first two volumes in Stahl's Case Studies series, a brand new collection of clinical stories have been collated in Volume 3, derived from cases seen by medical students, residents and faculty from the University of California at Riverside (UCR) Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The highly popular and unique user-friendly presentation of previous volumes has been maintained, with extensive use of icons, questions/answers, and tips. The cases address multifaceted issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians. Covering a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, each case is followed through the complete clinical encounter, from start to resolution, acknowledging all the complications, issues, decisions, twists and turns along the way. The book is about living through the treatments that work, the treatments that fail, and the mistakes made along the journey. This is psychiatry in real life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• List of Contributors
• List of icons
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. The Case: Wearing down a diagnosis
• 2. The Case: The woman who couldn’t handle her lips smacking any longer
• 3. The Case: The depressed bipolar patient on multiple medications
• 4. The Case: The agitated patient who finally wasn’t
• 5. The Case: The George who was not psychotic but anxious and distracted
• 6. Case 6: The man who saw enemies everywhere
• 7. The Case: The young woman with psychosis complicated by substance use and a history of traumatic brain injury
• 8. Case 8: The woman with worsening psychosis and a mysterious rash
• 9. The Case: The man without a plan
• 10 The Case: The anxious depressed woman who couldn’t sit still
• 11 The Case: The man who thinks it’s the end of the world
• 12. The Case: Sunny with a chance of depression
• 13. The Case: A not-so-simple case of anxiety
• 14. The Case: I’m a woman in a man’s body
• 15. The Case: The spacey, fidgety son with overwhelming sadness
• 16. The Case: The man who spent thousands online
• 17. The Case: The traumatized mother who can’t stop bingeing
• 18. The Case: The man who couldn’t stop hitting people
• 19. The Case: Brexpiprazole: “an awakening”
• 20. The Case: Treatment-resistant depression and opioid dependence
• 21. The Case: A stiff patient
• 22. The Case: An adolescent awakening
• 23. The Case: The peace keeper with a left breast mass
• 24. The Case: The girl who slept with problems
• 25. The Case: Not all child’s play: a path to pediatric stability
• 26. The Case: The young woman who was “nothing but skin and bones”
• 27. The Case: Could it be both? Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses
• 28. The Case: Treatment-emergent mania/hypomania in a depressed patient
• 29.The Case: The border between mood and personality
• 30. The Case: The student who wanted to go to rehab
• 31. The Case: The boy who wouldn’t (couldn’t) listen
• 32. The Case: The patient who went streaking
• 33. The Case: “Perseverance”
• 34. The Case: Clozapine (Clozaril) candidate discombobulates compassionate clinicians
• Index of drug names
• Index of case studies