Antidepressants: When and how to discontinue? Facts: About half of patients suffer from persistent withdrawal symptoms. These can be severe and threatening. Concrete know-how: All steps of discontinuation in the context of clinical experience and current research. Expertise: Fava is one of the few scientist practitioners in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Discontinuing antidepressants is far more challenging than prescribing them. People experiencing withdrawal phenomena are often left to cope alone, especially from a medical standpoint. Fava, an internationally renowned psychiatrist, presents three modules in this book that facilitate the discontinuation of medications or minimize the symptoms as much as possible. With the help of current research findings and case presentations, you will learn to assess how your patient will respond to discontinuation. What is appropriate, what contraindications exist for discontinuation, and what contraindications are there for continuation? How can dose reduction be implemented, and what options are available? Page by page, it becomes clearer what is important and that preventive measures against medication dependence and withdrawal phenomena are indeed possible.