Pillaged : psychiatric medications and suicide risk /

Maris, Ronald W.,

Pillaged : psychiatric medications and suicide risk / Psychiatric medications and suicide risk Ronald William Maris ; foreword by David Healy. - Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

The suicide risks of psychiatric medications -- Resolving suicidogenic claims -- Antidepressants -- Mood stabilizers and antiepileptics -- Anxiolytics -- Antipsychotics -- Residual suicidogenic drugs -- Conclusions, resolutions, and alternatives.

It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general practitioners. In Pillaged, Ronald William Maris evaluates the psychiatric medications commonly used to treat several major types of psychiatric disorders --



9781611174625

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Psychopharmacology.
Suicide--Risk factors.
Suicide--Prevention.
Risk.
Psychotropic Drugs--adverse effects--Case Reports.
Suicide--psychology--Case Reports.
Suicide--prevention & control--Case Reports.
Risk--Case Reports.
Mental Disorders--drug therapy--Case Reports.
Psychotropic Drugs--therapeutic use--Case Reports.
Psychotropic Drugs--therapeutic use
Psychotropic Drugs--adverse effects
Suicide--psychology
Suicide--prevention & control
Risk
Mental Disorders--drug therapy

MEDICAL / Medicine PSYCHOLOGY /


Electronic Books.

RM315 / .P555 2015