Management of Treatment-Resistant Major Psychiatric Disorders

Although there are a variety of textbooks and manuals of psychiatric disorders few have focused on the management of treatment-resistant patients. Those that exist have largely focused on treatment-resistant depression and even these are now largely outdated. Because psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals increasingly manage patients who fail treatment from family practitioners and other non-psychiatric specialists a single practical volume summarizing the evidence-based medicine as well as the art of managing treatment-resistant patients is a much needed volume for practitioners psychiatry residents and other mental health workers. Most importantly both psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions will be included a shortcoming of many previous volumes. Management of Treatment Resistant Major Psychiatric Disorders contains chapters authored by leaders in the field on the management of the major treatment resistant psychiatric disorders.