Manual of psychiatric therapeutics

Content: * Introduction: A Perspective on Contemporary Psychiatry as a  Background to Psychopharmacology... 1   Richard I. Shader  * The Mental Status Examination ... 9   Richard I. Shader  *  Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients and the Acute Treatment of  Psychotropic Drug Overdose ... 17   Richard I. Shader, Judith E. Tintinalli, and Suzanne R. White  *  Dissociative, Somatoform, and Paranoid Disorders... 52   Richard I. Shader and Katharine A. Phillips  *  Delirium and Dementia... 64   Sandra A. Jacobson and Richard I. Shader  * Obsessions and Compulsions and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ... 73   Richard I. Shader  * Tics, Tourette Disorder, and Related Problems ... 81   Barbara J. Coffey and Richard I. Shader  *  Disorders of Eating: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and  Binge-Eating Disorder ... 94   W. Stewart Agras  * Treatment of Physical Dependence on Barbiturates,  Benzodiazepines, and Other Sedative-Hypnotics... 103   Richard I. Shader, Domenic A. Ciraulo, and David J. Greenblatt  * Opioid Abuse and Dependence: Acute and Chronic Treatment ... 115   Richard I. Shader and John A. Renner, Jr.  *  Alcoholism and Its Treatment... 127   Domenic A. Ciraulo, Richard I. Shader, and Ann Marie Ciraulo  *  Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal ... 143   Richard Saitz, Domenic A. Ciraulo, Richard I. Shader, and  Ann Marie Ciraulo  *  Pharmacologic Treatment of Personality Disorders:  A Dimensional Approach... 169   James M. Ellison and Richard I. Shader  * Approaches to the Treatment of Anxiety States... 184   Richard I. Shader and David J. Greenblatt  * Treatment of Transient Insomnia ... 210   Richard I. Shader and David J. Greenblatt  *  Bereavement Reactions and Grief ... 220   Richard I. Shader and Wayne A. Ury  * Assessment and Treatment of Suicide Risk ... 229   Richard I. Shader  * Approaches to the Treatment of Depression ... 240   Ronald W. Pies and Richard I. Shader  *  Approaches to the Treatment of Manic-Depressive States  (Bipolar Disorders) ... 271   Richard I. Shader  *  Approaches to the Treatment of Schizophrenia... 285   Richard I. Shader