The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines

"This book provides a unique and detailed guide to deprescribing psychiatric medication. It is a welcome companion volume to the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry which have been essential and highly valued reading for psychiatrists for the past 30 years."
—Professor Wendy Burn, Past President Royal College of Psychiatrists

"Psychiatrists are bombarded with information on how to start and continue medications for their patients. However, they receive little or no information on how and when to decrease or stop medications. These guidelines fill that gap."
—Sir Professor Robin Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research

"Since we began using psychiatric medications 60 years ago, the focus has been on prescribing- with almost no attention to withdrawal symptoms & how often they're confused with relapse. Any clinician can prescribe drugs; it takes art, science, and people skills to deprescribe them."
—Professor Allen Frances, Professor Emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University and head of the DSM-IV committee