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By Philip G. Janicak, John M. Davis, Sheldon H. Preskorn, and Frank J. Ayd, Jr. 592 pp. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1993. $80. ISBN 0-683-04373-0.

Textbooks of psychopharmacology age quickly -- a tribute to the vibrancy of the field. The best of them offer more than a summary of current knowledge; they demonstrate how to reduce a mass of data to usable generalizations without losing the details that separate the wheat from the chaff. Such good textbooks give the reader a method of adding new information. This leaves a narrow ridge between uncritical conciseness and verbose criticism. Principles and Practice of Psychopharmacotherapy does an excellent job of finding that ridge. The authors, recognized researchers and teachers in psychopharmacology, not only provide us with a comprehensive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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