Introduction

I am writing to introduce myself as the new coordinatofor BOOKS (Project 8). I am succeeding Samuel Gershon who launched this project in which we post reviews of classic and recent books relevant to neuropsychopharmacology. I will continue to work with Tom Ban, but contrary to my predecessor, who worked alone, my intention is to have a small team working with me I am pleased to inform you that Walter Brown has accepted my invitation to join our team and help us with editing and other matters.

We intend to shorten the time between receipt of communication and posting by a new arrangement that will allow us to post at least one communication weekly on the website; and, we intend to facilitate discussion on posted communications by inviting colleagues to comment on them. Furthermore, by reviewing the “books” listed in our project from time to time, we intend to also provide educational material that we hope will help place the information covered in these books in a historical perspective.

I am looking forward to working with you on this project and I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to comment on any of the books already posted on our website and to participate in ongoing interactions related to these books. I invite you to send me directly (carlosmorra@hotmail.com) “reviews” of books you have written or edited for consideration for posting. Please ascertain that in your submission you follow our standard format (Contents and Author’s/Editor’s/Reviewer’s Comment).

Carlos Morra

September 18, 2014

Books

• Introduction – Samuel Gershon
• Introduction - Carlos Morra
• Jules Angst, editor: Classification and Prediction of Outcome of Depression (1974)
• George Awad: The Search for a New Psychiatry - On Becoming a Psychiatrist, a Clinical Neuroscientist and Other Fragments of Memory.
• Barry Blackwell’s review of Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies. The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. New York: Harper Collins; 2019.
• Ban’s Conditioning and Psychiatry (1964)
• Ban's Psychopharmacology (1969)
• Ban’s Depression and the Tricyclic Antidepressants
• Thomas A. Ban and Heinz E. Lehmann: Experimental Approaches to Psychiatric Diagnosis
• Ban's Recent Advances in the Biology of Schizophrenia
• Ban & Silvestrini’s Trazodone
• Thomas A. Ban: Nicotinic Acid in the Treatment of Scizophrenias. Canadian Mental Health Association Collaborative Study. Introduction. (1971). Reviewed by Thomas A. Ban
• Ban's Schizophrenia. A Psychopharmacological Approach
• Thomas A. Ban, Barry Blackwell, Samuel Gershon, Peter R. Martin, Gregers Wegener International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology INHN 2013. Reviewed by Peter R. Martin.
• Per Bech: Clinical Psychometrics
• Per Bech: Measurement-based care in mental disorders. Reviewed by Per Bech
• Barry Blackwell’s Introduction to Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain.
• Walter A. Brown - Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough. Reviewed by Walter A. Brown
• Daniel J. Carlat. Unhinged. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney Free Press; 2010 Barry Blackwell’s Review
• Lawrence Edelstein, John Smythies and Denis Noble, editors:Epigenetic Information – Processing Mechanism in the Brain (2014) Reviewed by John Smythies
• Edmundo Fischer, Gustavo E. Poch and Ronaldo Ucha Udabe: Psychopharmacology (1964). Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Friedman RJ, Katz MM, editors. Psychology of Depression. Contemporary Theory and Research. Reviewed by Martin M. Katz
• Samuel Gershon and Baron Shopsin, editors: Lithium Its Role in Psychiatric Research and Treatment
• David Healy, Joanna Le Noury and Julie Wood: Children of the Cure: Missing Data, Lost Lives and Antidepressants. Toronto: Samizdat-Health; 2020. Reviewed by David Healy.
• Hanfried Helmchen’s review (Hanfried Helmchen: The Janusz Face of Psychiatry. Benefits and Risks of Psychiatric Actions. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 2017)
• John R. Hubbard and Peter R. Martin, editors. SUBSTANCE Abuse in The Mentally Ill and Physically Disabled
• Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry: The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research. Adelaide: Wakefield Press; 2020. Reviewed by Leemon McHenry.
• Lothar Kalinowsky and Paul Hoch: Shock Treatments and Other Somatic Procedures in Psychiatry (1946) Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Katz's Depression and Drugs
• Martin M. Katz: Clinical Trials of Antidepressants: How Changing the Model Can Uncover New, More Effective Molecules. Reviewed By Martin M. Katz
• Martin M. Katz, Jonathan O. Cole and Walter C.Barton: The Role of Methodology of Classification in Psychiatry and Psychopathology
• Martin B. Keller’s Clinical Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Donald F. Klein and John M. Davis: Diagnosis and Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
• Donald F. Klein: Psychiatric Case Studies: Treatment, Drugs and Outcome
• Donald F. Klein, Rachel Gittelman, Frederic Quitkin and Arthur Rifkin, editors. Diagnosis and Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: Adults and Children
• Joseph Knoll: The Theory of Active Reflex
• Joseph Knoll: The Brain and Its Self. A Neurochemical Concept of the Innate and Acquired Drives
• Joseph Knoll: The Future of Mankind. Considerations on the basis of cortical mechanisms responsible for the human society’s birth and development
• Knoll’s How Selegiline Slows Brain Aging
• Heinz E. Lehmann, editor: Non-Tricyclic and Non- Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (1982)
• Lehmann and Ban's: The Butyrophenones in Psychiatry
• Lehmann and Ban's: Toxicity and Adverse Reaction Studies with Neuroleptics and Antidepressants (1965)
• Lehmann and Ban’s Pharmacotherapy of Tension and Anxiety
• Lehmann, Berthiaume and Ban's Trimipramine A New Antidepressant (1964)
• Peter R. Martin’s information/review on Peter R. Martin, Bennett Alan Weinberg & Bonnie K. Bealer’s Healing Addiction
• Julio Moizeszowicz: Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology. Neurochemical, Neuropsychiatric and Psychological. (1982). Reviewed by Julio Moizeszowicz
• Julio Moizeszowicz: Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology. Neurochemical, Neuropsychiatric and Psychological. 2nd edition (1988). Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Julio Moizeszowicz: Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology. Neurochemical, Neuropsychiatric and Psychological. 3rd edition (1994). Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Julio Moizeszowicz: Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology. Neurochemical, Neuropsychiatric and Psychological. 4th edition (1998). Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Comment by Hector Warnes on the four editions
• Julio Moizeszowicz and Mirta Moizeszowicz: Psychopharmacology and Freudian Territory Reviewed by Hector Warnes
• Pethö & Ban: DCR Budapest-Nashville
• Rosenberg, Holttum and Gershon’s Pharmacotherapy of Childand Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
• Rosenberg, Davanzo and Gershon’s Pharmacotherapy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders 2nd Edition
• Rosenberg and Gershon, editors: Pharmacotherapy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders. 3rd Edition
• Janusz Rybakowski: Lithium – The Amazing Drug in Psychiatry. Poznan: Termedia; 2020. (Books).
• Janusz Rybakowski: The Faces of Manic-Depressive Illness
• Johan Schioldann: History of the Introduction of Lithium into Medicine and Psychiatry: Birth of Modern Psychopharmacology 1949 - Reviewed by Barry Blackwell
• Janusz Rybakowski’s reply to Hector Warnes’ comment
• Charles Shagass,editor. The Role of Drugs in Community Psychiatry (1971) Reviewed by Carlos Morra
• Edward Shorter, The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology,
• Edward Shorter: What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 (188 pages). Reviewed by Edward Shorter.
• Edward Shorter and Max Fink: The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia.(2018) Reviewed by Edward Shorter and Max Fink.
• John Smythies, Lawrence Edelstein and Vilayenur Ramachadran Reviewed by John Smythies
• Robert Whitaker: Anatomyof an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. Reviewed by Robert H. Belmaker