Sian Gordon

Jul 25, 2024 | bjgp.org | Sian Gordon |Mark Horowitz

Mark Horowitz, David Taylor Wiley-Blackwell, 2024, PB, 592pp, £44.55, 978-1119822981 The preface to this book begins with a quote from the hugely influential French physician, Philippe Pinel (1745–1826): ‘It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly; but it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether omit them.’ The Maudsley series of books on prescribing in psychiatry has been a cornerstone of psychiatric practice,...