This medications guide summarizes the main drug groups prescribed for mental health reasons; for more details on individual medicines, see the separate list of medications with brand names.
Quick Reference to Psychotropic Medications

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This section provides additional medication reference materials to support the main quick reference to mental health medications at Counselling Resource.
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NIMH Medications Booklet
Additional Sub-Sections
Drug Information by Generic Name
This section includes all the drugs for which we have information pages available.
Medication Action Mechanisms and Warnings
These background documents explore rare but important potentially serious problems associated with certain mental health drugs. Broader coverage of more than 100 specific medications and their known actions is included on our main site.
Research Literature and Clinical Trials of Mental Health Drugs
Find all the latest clinical trials and research articles on the mental health medications we cover — or visit the database directly to conduct searches yourself. You can also receive regularly updated search results directly to your favourite newsreader via RSS.





