Bridges for Healing: Integrating Family Therapy and Psychopharmacology - Hardcover

This book promotes the careful use of psychopharmacology together with family therapy. Previous books have emphasized pharmacology for specific illnesses such as bipolar illness with a family focused approach and, on the other hand, medications to improve communication and expressiveness. This book integrates both approaches and illustrates that within each family there is usually one family member that demonstrates an instrumental medical model outlook and another family member that has more of an expressive-relational, humanistic outlook.

Roy Resnikoff, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He has had a private family psychiatry practice in La Jolla, California since 1975. Dr Resnikoff conducts training workshops on the integration of family therapy and psychpharmacology, and he is also on the faculty of the Gestalt Training Institute in San Diego. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Colorado.