Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the market leading textbook Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, as well as more than 500 other articles and chapters. Dr Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher and teacher in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

This new selection of clinical stories, covers treatments that work, or fail, and mistakes made along the journey. Designed with a distinctive user-friendly presentation and making use of icons, questions/answers and tips, they address complex issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians.

Introduction; List of icons; Abbreviations; 1. The case: achieving remission with medication management augmented with pet therapy; 2. The case: the luteal, jaw moving woman with paranoid paneling; 3. The case: the other lady with a moving jaw; 4. The case: the lady with MDD who bought an RV; 5. The case: the PCP who went the prescribing distance but came up short; 6. The case: intrusions, ammonia, and dyskinesias, oh my; 7. The case: the lady and the man who sat on couches; 8. The case: the lady who had her diagnosis altered; 9. The case: the man who picked things up; 10. The case: it worked this time, but with a hitch; 11. The case: the figment of a man who looked upon on the lady; 12. The case: the man who couldn't sell anymore; 13. The case: the woman who thought she was ill, then was ill; 14. The case: generically speaking, generics are OK; 15. The case: the woman who wouldn't leave her car; 16. The case: the woman who liked late night TV; 17. The case: the patient who interacted with everything; 18. The case: the angry twins; 19. The case: anxiety, depression, or prebipolaring?; 20. The case: the patient who wasn't lyming; 21. The case: hindsight is always 20/20 or ADHD; 22. The case: this one's too hot, this one's too cold... this one is just right; 23. The case: schizophrenia patient needs sleep; 24. The case: the man with greasy hands needs fine tuning; 25. The case: the combative business woman; 26. The case: the man with a little bit of everything; 27. The case: oops, he fell off the curve; 28. The case: 54-year-old with recurrent depression and 'psychiatric' Parkinsonism; 29. The case: 55-year-old with depression not responsive to serotonergic treatment; 30. The case: 23-year-old with first depression... that's it!; Index of drug names; Index of case studies.