Forty real cases from Dr Stahl’s own practice, relating in chronological order the clinical encounter, from start to resolution, describing what was done, why, and acknowledging all the complications, issues, decisions, twists and turns along the way.

Designed with the distinctive, user-friendly presentation that has been so popular in Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology and its companion, The Prescriber’s Guide, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips.

This book is about living through the treatments that work, the treatments that fail, and the mistakes made along the journey – psychiatry in real life – and will reassure, inform and guide better clinical decision making.

Paperback | 500 pages | First Edition 2011