This exceptional book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of action involved in psychiatric pharmacotherapy. State-of-the-art information is presented through highly imaginative double page spreads, with each image facing a page of accompanying text. The illustration clarifies and simplifies the complex interactions between psychiatric medications and neural or cellular events. Ranging from the basic aspects of drug action, the book covers the different classes of drugs, abused substances, drug interactions and treatment strategies, including all the latest data available and the relevance of the data to clinical practice.