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Psychiatric drug withdrawal : a guide for prescribers, therapists, patients, and their families /
"As a physician who specializes in addiction medicine and drug withdrawal and written widely on them, I recommend Dr. Breggin's book to every health professional who deals with anyone taking psychiatric drugs. He gives highly useful information and reasons for stopping or avoiding them. It...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Pub. Co.,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A person-centered collaborative approach to psychiatric drug withdrawal
- Cautions in assessing the risks associated with psychiatric drugs
- Chronic brain impairment : a reason to withdraw patients from long-term exposure to psychiatric medications
- Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs : reasons for withdrawal
- Antidepressant drugs : reasons for withdrawal
- Stimulant drugs : reasons for withdrawal
- Benzodiazepines, other sedatives, and opiates : reasons for withdrawal
- Lithium and other mood stabilizers : reasons for withdrawal
- Medication spellbinding (intoxication anosognosia)
- Withdrawal reactions from specific drugs and drug categories
- The initiation evaluation : creating a medication history while building trust and hope
- Developing team collaboration
- Psychotherapy during medication withdrawal
- Handling emotional crises
- Techniques for beginning medication withdrawal
- Cases of antidepressant and benzodiazepine withdrawal in adults
- Cases of multiple drug withdrawal in adults
- Cases of drug withdrawal in children and teens
- Concluding thoughts for prescribers, therapists, patients, and their families.