Knowledge in pharmacological psychiatry is basically empirical, due to the lack of clear causality between the biochemical effects of psycho pharmaceutical products and the psychopathological responses of the patients. In order to avoid prescribing excess drugs and to search for practical concepts for therapeutic strategies, three equidistant areas are presented where antidepressant drugs, antipsychotic drugs, and mood stabilizers are arranged spatially and thus related to one another.
Psychiatric drugs; drug interactions; medical prescription; pharmacodynamics