The Psychopharmacologists

This stimulating book consists of a collection of 27 interviews with some of the key researchers in the field of psychopharmacology, including senior clinicians, basic scientists and drug developers within the pharmaceutical industry. It follows a very successful first volume published in 1996.



These important and stimulating interviews will require the histories of antidepressants and antipsychotics to be rewritten. They provide a unique perspective on interactions between cultural, commercial and regulatory frameworks and on the emergence of clinical trials and their importance to psychiatry. Along with Volume 1, this title creates a new field - the History of Psychopharmacology, a field distinct from that of the History of Psychiatry or History of Neuroscience.



'The Psychopharmacologists 2' will offer illuminating reading for: all clinicians, laboratory and field scientists; anyone working in any branch of the pharmaceutical industry from marketing to medicinal chemistry; historians of medicine and science.



These interviews do more than shed light on the past - this is psychopharmacology as it happens now, told from the inside. By detailing paths of developments that have not been taken, 'The Psychopharmacologists 2' opens up vistas for possible future developments that will be of relevance to public policy makers and the public in general.