An overview of the principles of clinical psychopharmacotherapy.
The complexities of psychopharmacotherapy can be simplified through a careful consideration of certain fundamental guiding principles. While each patient is truly a unique individual, the general biological, psychosocial, and education issues reviewed above can provide a framework which can then be modified to meet the particular needs of a given patient.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7160, USA. rgolden@css.unc.edu
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