Competent Psychopharmacology

The Place of Psychotherapy in Contemporary Psychiatry

Psychotherapy has long been an essential component of clinical psychiatry and many young physicians choose to train in psychiatry residency programs in order to acquire necessary knowledge and skills, and become competent psychotherapists. Recent advances in psychopharmacology and neuroscience, and growing dominance of managed care and evidence-based medicine have had dramatic impacts on health...

Panic and hypertension: brothers in arms through 5-HT?

S. J. Davies Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. C. A. Lowry Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, USA. D. J. Nutt Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Journal of Psychopharmacology 21(6) (2007) 563–566 © 2007 British Association for Psychopharmacology ISSN 0269-8811 SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Sin...

Cannabis antagonists: a new era of social psychopharmacology?

The psychopharmacological era: notes toward a history.

Cultural and economic influences on the psychopharmacological era are reviewed, in an attempt to bring into focus what has been happening in psychopharmacology for the past thirty years. It is argued that the belief that clinical advances are made through the heroic achievements of disinterested scientists is a simplistic view that may militate against future significant discoveries. Such disco...

Does evidence from clinical trials in psychopharmacology apply in clinical practice?

The art of psychopharmacology derives from the science of psychopharmacology, but still requires wisdom, judgment, and experience to translate findings from clinical trials of a new drug into clinical practice.