For nearly 30 years the manual of clinical psychopharmacology has been the preeminent volume on psychotropic medications and the go to source for psychiatrists prescribing for their patients and students in psychiatry and pharmacology. Manual of clinical psychopharmacology inproceedingsschatzberg1991manualoc titlemanual of clinical psychopharmacology authora schatzberg and c debattista year1991 a schatzberg c debattista published 1991 medicine general principles of psychopharmacological treatment diagnosis and classification antidepressants antispychotic drugs mood stabilizers antianxiety agents . The manual of clinical psychopharmacology has been the leading resource for the clinical use of psychiatric medications for more than 30 years now in its ninth edition the manual continues to offer thoroughly updated exhaustively vetted and evidence based information on psychotropic drugs in a collegial conversational style that both training and practicing clinicians will find useful and . Since 1986 the manual of clinical psychopharmacology has been the gold standard for applying psychotropic medications to the treatment of specific psychiatric conditions with each new edition. For nearly 30 years the manual of clinical psychopharmacology has been the preeminent volume on psychotropic medications and the go to source for psychiatrists prescribing for their patients and students in psychiatry and pharmacology