By Stephen M Stahl (Pp 152, £24.95). Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. ISBN 0-521-89074-8

This short book is an update of the two chapters from the second edition of Stahl’s larger textbook Essential pharmacology that deal exclusively with psychosis and schizophrenia and their treatment with antipsychotic drugs. The author argues that this new book is justified by the rapidly …