Hanns Hippius

This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested in the development of their hospital from a historical perspective. To do this for the University Department of Psychiatry of Munich an introduction can be made by reminding the reader of a date: just over 100 years ago, on November 7, 1904, the newly constructed »Royal Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich« was inaugurated with a ceremonial act and handed over to the public. Emil Kraepelin gave a ceremonial speech on the occasion.

This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested in the development of their hospital from a historical perspective. To do this for the University Department of Psychiatry of Munich an introduction can be made by reminding the reader of a date: just over 100 years ago, on November 7, 1904, the newly constructed »Royal Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich« was inaugurated with a ceremonial act and handed over to the public. Emil Kraepelin gave a ceremonial speech on the occasion.

Der Benkert/Hippius ist in den zwanzig Jahren seines Bestehens - die erste Auflage erschien im Jahre 1974 - längst zum Standardnachschlagewerk der Pharmakotherapie in der Psychiatrie geworden. Die vorliegende sechste Auflage wurde korrigiert und überarbeitet, es wurden zahlreiche neue Präparate aufgenommen sowie deren pharmakologische Eigenschaften und klinische Besonderheiten dargestellt, einschließlich der Hinweise auf unerwünschte und Wechselwirkungen, Unverträglichkeiten, Dosierung und Applikationsformen. Aufgrund des umfangreichen Sach- und Pharmakaverzeichnisses ist das Buch ein unentbehrliches Nachschlagewerk für jeden, der mit der Verordnung von Psychopharmaka zu tun hat.