This revised edition covers each major class of psychotherapeutic drugs: anti-anxiety agents, hypnotics, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, manic depressive medications, and drugs for children and adolescents. It contains updated information on new drugs, plus new chapters on mood stabilizers, drugs for psychosis asssociated with old age, and drugs causing mental disorders. It also addresses the mechanisms of drug action, applied pharmacokinetics, and guidelines for clinical drug use.