Textbook of Psychopharmacology

* To orient postgraduate students, physicians and mental health professionals to various drugs available for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
* To guide them how to use correctly, appropriately and rationally various psychotropic drugs.
* To make them aware about the common and serious interactions of psychotropic drugs with the other drugs.
* How to correctly diagnose and manage drug-induced and drug withdrawal emergencies.
* To make them familiar with the pharmacology, indications, contraindications, interactions, adverse effects, dosage and availability form of various drugs for which a separate section on alphabetically arranged psychotropic drugs has been included.
* To make them aware about the recent developments in the drug treatment of psychiatric disorders.
* To explain the factors affecting the drug compliance.