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So psychotropic drugs may be grouped into:

1. Antipsychotic (neurileptic, ataractic, major tranquilizer) useful in all type of psychosis, especially schizophrenia.

2. Antianxiety (anxiolytic-sedative, minor tranquilizer) used for anxiety and phobic states.

3. Drugs for affective disorders.

A) Antidepressants for minor and major depressive illness, phobic states, obsessive compulsive behavior.

B)Antimanic (mood stabilizer) to control mania and break into cyclic affective disorders.

4. Psychotomimetic (psychodysleptic, hallucinogen).