Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice - Softcover

Puzantian, Talia; Carlat, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798989326495

Publisher: Carlat Publishing, LLC, 2025

Synopsis

The Medication Fact Book is a comprehensive reference guide covering all the important facts, from cost to pharmacokinetics, about the most commonly prescribed medications in psychiatry. Composed of single-page, reader-friendly fact sheets, treatment algorithms, and quick-scan medication tables, this book offers guidance, clinical pearls, and bottom-line assessments of more than 100 of the most common medications you use and are asked about in your practice.

Get the information you need at a glance: 

Off-label uses 

Dosages and generic availability 

Mechanisms of action 

Cost information 

Bottom-line impressions

This revised edition features: 

179 fact sheets 

33 reference tables 

Plus, 9 appendices and 11 treatment algorithms

"An essential reference for busy clinicians."

Mark Leary, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF School of Medicine

"A most useful desk-side book for the clinician who needs accurate and practical information about commonly used medications."

Vivien Burt, MD, PhD

Founder, UCLA Women's Life Center of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

"The facts you need as a prescriber are right here."

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD

Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital

Director, Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics

Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

"Provides great information in a concise, thoughtfully developed format that is perfect for busy clinicians."

Stephen Strakowski, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Vice President of Regional Mental Health, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

About this title

About the Authors

Talia Puzantian, PharmD, BCPP, is a professor of clinical sciences at Keck Graduate Institute School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Claremont, CA. She is the deputy editor of The Carlat Report newsletters and co-author of the Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice.

Daniel J. Carlat, MD, is the founder and president of Carlat Publishing and is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carlat Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798989326495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296