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  • 22 - Putting It All Together
  • from Part II - Targets of Pharmacotherapy
  • Joseph F. Goldberg, Stephen M. Stahl, University of California, San Diego
  • Foreword by Alan F. Schatzberg
  • Book: Practical Psychopharmacology
  • Published online: 19 October 2021
  • Print publication: 29 April 2021, pp 500-507
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    Summary

    The perfect is the enemy of the good. We have, we hope, covered a large but not unwieldy swath of territory of practical relevance for the everyday clinician trying to make pharmacological decisions informed by evidence. As illustrated throughout the preceding pages, the availability of empirical data to guide treatment decisions varies greatly within and across disorders. It probably matters more that clinicians know how tothinkempirically – that is, knowing when, where, and how to look up information pertinent to a given case – rather than try to tackle the impossible task of comprehensively knowing the ever-changing clinical trials database for all disorders. Wisdom equally involves recognizing when evidence is lacking, prompting reliance on opinion, extrapolation, and plausible rationales – but not conflating those guideposts with an empirical database.

  • 1 - Core Concepts of Good Psychopharmacology
  • from Part I - General Principles
  • Joseph F. Goldberg, Stephen M. Stahl, University of California, San Diego
  • Foreword by Alan F. Schatzberg
  • Book: Practical Psychopharmacology
  • Published online: 19 October 2021
  • Print publication: 29 April 2021, pp 3-24
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    It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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