Texts and Reference Books

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

DSM-5

Child Development, Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

[Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life]
(https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Feelings-Harbinger-Self-Help-Workbook/dp/1608822087/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3ZW7PRW5TK2PB0MDR9R3)

Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model

[The Clinical Assessment Workbook: Balancing Strengths and Differential Diagnosis]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0534578438/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_38?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ARCO1HGQTQFT8)

Helping Abused and Traumatized Children

Essential Research Methods for Social Work

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Privilege: A Reader

Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Deviant Behavior

Social Work with Older Adults

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Programs and Services

[Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415884810/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change

Ethnicity and Family Therapy

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

DBT Skills Manual

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets

Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need

Novels

[A People’s History of the United States]
(https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511070674&sr=1-1&keywords=howard+zinn&dpID=51pps1C9%252BGL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch)


The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Death Class <- This one is based off of a course I took at my undergrad university

The Quiet Room

Girl, Interrupted

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Flowers for Algernon

Of Mice and Men

A Child Called It

Go Ask Alice

Under the Udala Trees

Prozac Nation

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Bell Jar

The Outsiders

To Kill a Mockingbird

It's actually way more complicated than that. If you're interested, The Perspectives of Psychiatry by Paul McHugh explains it well. book

I'm sorry you had to go through this.

The rules are very clear that this is not okay. The APA code of ethics is a good thing to read to get a sense of the rules that therapists are requires to follow. If you want something more technical http://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Boundary-Violations-Psychoanalysis-Gabbard/dp/158562098X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377453457&sr=8-1&keywords=boundaries+gabbard is a good book about therapists who cross boundaries.

You are not responsible for this in any way. This is no ambiguity in the rules here for therapists. There is no situation where he should have been doing the things you described. No matter what you may or may not have done there is no situation where you are at fault here. Even if a client came into an office coming onto the therapist like a cheeze porn movie or something the therapist would still be to blame for doing anything. When a therapist is involved with their client in non professional ways they are taking advantage of the power dynamic that exists so it is impossible for the 2 people to have a relationship without it being exploitive.

You don't have to report anything if you don't want to. But you may want to think about the risk that what happened to you could happen to others. You might not be the only one who had this happen.

Tenho TOC, o que mais me incomodava eram os pensamentos intrusivos, as vezes eu via claramente eu matando as pessoas, mesmo da família, eram pensamentos bem gráficos, não só pessoas como animais também. Tenho tiques também, seja de olhar pro relógio e ver alguns números, ou colocar e tirar e colocar e tirar e colocar e tirar a chave do buraco da porta ou do carro, apagar e acender luzes, movimentos com os olhos, e mais um monte de coisa, inclusive escrever, apagar e escrever de novo, se for a mão, eu reescrevo em cima, meu caderno sempre foi cheio de palavras com a escrita grossa devido as repetições. Pensamentos que me via agarrando as pessoas e tascando-lhes beijos calientes, mesmo com minha vó, era só eu conversar com alguém que aquele pensamento vinha, podia ser meus pais, meu professor, qualquer pessoa que eu conversasse, o pensamento vinha. Ou até mesmo os pensamentos sexuais, seja na rua, seja onde for, eles apareciam, era só ver um rabo de saia e lá estava meu pensamento.

Uns 2-3 anos atrás comecei a me interessar como funcionava a mente, comecei a ler sobre Flow, porém não terminei, o livro é cheio de explicações que eu não entendia nada. Depois fui indo mais pro lado da meditação e mindfulness, comecei a ler sobre também, li esse que me abriu bem a cabeça em relação aos pensamentos e medos (muita gente pode falar "AH MAS É AUTO AJUDA", eu sei, mas pra quem ta na merda, qualquer coisa pode ajudar) hoje leio esse livro, é voltado tanto para pacientes como para terapeutas, ele explica bastante coisa sobre ansiedade, medos, tem exercícios também, fala bastante de mindfulness que seria atenção plena, tem bastante livro sobre isso, estou nele há um bom tempo já, mas quero ir até o final.

Cheguei a ler um livro sobre TOC mesmo, depois de ler os outros, esse chegou em hora certa para mim, como eu já sabia mais ou menos como o TOC agia em mim, eu lia as coisas e pensava "po, o cara em tal livro tinha falado disso", só que eu não conseguia ver como usar aquilo no TOC, eu recomendo MUITO esse livro pra quem tem TOC.

Hoje faço tratamento com fluoxetina (luvox 150mg) e psicoterapia, eu comecei a fazer e não estava em crise, já estava tomando o remédio há uns 3 meses, a terapeuta mesmo diz que hoje eu estou super bem, e eu mesmo percebo isso (eu também tinha fobia social). Acho que o auto conhecimento é super importante quando você se trata de um distúrbio mental, pra saber como como ele funciona e poder reagir a ele.


A minha terapeuta fala bastante de não se deixar levar pelos pensamentos, de estar sempre presente. Eu quando começo a pensar em coisas que sei que não são reais, ou são dúvidas do TOC, eu falo pra mim mesmo que aquilo não é real e é fruto do TOC. O que me ajuda bastante também é identificar o que é TOC e o que não é, assim eu sei quando devo me preocupar com alguma coisa ou não.


Se quiser conversar mais só mandar mp.


TLDR: Contei minha trajetória na minha guerra contra o TOC, recomendei livros e como faço pra evitar me levar pelos pensamentos.

> He was a Dutch cook and flew to Shanghai to a factory where they had dozens of tons of PMK they couldn't sell because it had been recently banned. He put 2mil upfront he borrowed off the author of the book and had the factories entire stock converted into this new precursor and shipped a bit to Australia and the rest to Europe. The author of the book was an Australian cook the Dutch guy met when they were both in jail in the US a decade or so earlier. and thus since 2012ish onward the dutch have switched recipes to due access of safrole and have switch to this chemical instead as it is super cheap around $200 kilo non bulk (4kg) and (400) per single.

> There's an ebook called 'Pills Of God' on Amazon about one of the guys involved in the discovery of this process, it happened much earlier than 2012 though.

That is correct.

Funny enough, that method the Dutch chemist used was outlined in Strike's book Total Synthesis II, published in 1998. It's "Method #12" iirc. It was developed starting in 1938 and a patent filed for in the early-mid 1940's.

First Aid for the Mental Health Clerkship is a really good primer if you haven't done your psych rotation yet.

Have you done your psych rotation yet?

Because (as quoted from an earlier response of mine to a similar question): "unless you've actively been involved in trying to treat someone as they devolve into catatonia or disorganization ... seen the aftermath, observed just how limited the tools we have to combat mental illness are. Watched that struggle first hand, seen failure and recurrence after failure and recurrence ... you have no idea what you're getting yourself into."

I haven't worked in psych, I only had a 6-week rotation, though when I was an EMT I saw plenty of psych too. I rotated through a county facility, where we had inpatient, and emergency.

In psych emergency, we'd have patients primarily brought in on 5150s (72 Hour Eval / Involuntary Hold). But there wasn't the resources to actually sit down with these people regularly, explore their home resources, get them the sort of time-intensive therapy that a lot of them needed. You just had to figure out if they were going to hurt somebody RIGHT AWAY, or not. And if not, they went back out onto the street, or home.

So you'd get in and do hand-off: Who's in for what, what'd they do, who'd been evaluated, who hadn't, and the all important warnings of who was about to snap.

Then you'd just go and talk to them. What happened to bring them here? Any thoughts of hurting themselves? Others? People were pretty forthright. You might be the only person who actually cared to listen to them in a month, so they'd talk. Then it was either "Yeah, he/she needs to be admitted because they might hurt themselves or others still" or "Discharge" or "I need to talk to them more later." Maybe you'd call around to whatever facility they came from, or their family, and get their history and all that.

We didn't have the resources for things like Cog B therapy, etc. We'd just shuttle them into categories based on the DSM "Bipolar, Type I, Manic Phase," start them on a drug, and refer them.

If somebody needed rehab or something, we'd try to get them placed, but there probably wasn't a bed available. If they seemed like they actually were going to try, like getting clean mattered, we'd try to get them a bed at a good one, the others instead might go to one of the ones that were clearly trying to get the biggest profit margin they could muster. But even that was unlikely.

The inpatient care portion of the facility had the more severe patients. Your schizophrenics and anybody who continued to say they really wanted to kill themselves or somebody else, and anybody who still refused to talk. The nurses would corral each one in turn so they'd be ready, they'd sit down, we'd talk to them, find out if they were taking their meds, and either keep them or discharge them. Sometimes the psychiatrist would only ask one question. "Why aren't you taking your meds?" or "Do you want to talk today?" and they'd say nothing and glare, and then it was back onto the floor for them, and maybe we'd see them tomorrow. Then we'd head out to the floor for the more unruly ones, and talk to them if they'd let us, and if not, we'd keep them for longer.

You'll note that everything seems to center around discharge or not in a public facility. There just wasn't the resources for anything more. But even if we had access to more, I don't know how far we'd get them.

Because in psych, there is no cure. And the treatments are sometimes as disabling as the disease. We don't know enough about the brain yet, how it works, to really fix anything. In the best cases, we help people enough that they can manage in the world, and hold down a job and keep their family together. You do that once, it made your week. But there were so very, very few of those.

And the others, they would stick in your head. The 12 year old exhibiting early signs of schizophrenia. How you had to tell the parents what to expect, the road they were headed down. How the parents argued and yelled and blamed each other despite your best attempts to explain that it was neither of their fault. How you'd already seen where it ends up in your other patients. "What's going to happen to me?" "Well, we're going to try to start you on some medications, and then mommy and daddy are going to take you home." "I'm scared. Will I be okay?" "We're going to do our best." But you were sitting in a room full of people who didn't end up okay. The woman mumbling to herself in the corner? Same diagnosis. The guy screaming non-sensical biblical verses at every passerby? Same diagnosis. I'm not going to tell you, but I'm scared for you too, kid. I'm scared for you too.

And the housewife, back from rehab for just two days and relapsed, because before she'd left for rehab, in a drunken flurry had hid little bottles of alcohol all over the house for herself to find when sober. How she cried when she talked about her two little girls, and how they thought daddy was mean for taking mommy away. And talking things through, and and crying with her and feeling like you'd made a difference, had a catharsis. And then seeing her back two days later. Because when she tried to find and throw away the hidden bottles, she'd thought "Well, what a waste, I'll just have a bit and throw the rest away."

There were those who would scream and shout obscenities until they lost all meaning.

But the scary ones were the ones who smiled at you, who weren't outwardly angry, or sad, who patiently and happily sat, waiting to be evaluated. Because you had no idea what was going on beneath the surface.

You wanted to know the joys and difficulties of psychiatry. I once asked an attending how he coped with all that he sees on a daily basis. And he said as soon as he closes a chart, he forgets it. All of it. Everything had to stay in the chart. He said in the beginning he would have to remind himself not to think about a patient outside of work. After awhile, it was habit.

I don't know if everybody's like that, but you might not get too many responses if most people are.

Because otherwise, psych eats at you. At least, it does for me. You have to sympathize, but not empathize. Even now, when I see a psych patient, I'm drained afterwards.

You asked about the joys and difficulties.

It was only a 6 week rotation, but I don't know if I remember any joy.

The liquid that lubricates the interior of the vagina during sexual arousal comes not from glands, but directly from blood plasma filtered through the epithelial lining of the vagina.

Goldstein, I. (2006). Women's sexual function and dysfunction: Study, diagnosis, and treatment. pp 174-176. London: Taylor & Francis.

Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual 2

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

The Psychiatric Interview

The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

Until more recently, it wasn't common to find books/articles on "how to do" psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The knowledge of how to perform the therapy came from the therapist's training analysis, which, going back to Freud, used to be the only requirement for becoming a psychoanalyst (cf. The question of Lay Analysis by Freud). However, there are now some "psychodynamic" therapies that provide a "how to" look at therapy using psychoanalytic principles. Two that I am familiar with are Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy or ISTDP and Brief Dynamic Therapywhich is a little better in my opinion. Glen Gabbard, who I like a lot, has also written a text that lays out some of the basics of psychotherapy from an analytic perspective.

Speaking of Gabbard, I highly recommend his text Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. It provides an overview of some of the major psychoanalytic theories (drive, ego, object, self). Unfortunately he doesn't cover Lacan, and briefly touches on intersubjectivity. Another book in this vein (without the diagnostic applications) is Freud and Beyond by Stephen Mitchell and Margaret Black. Not to diminish Dr. Black, but Stephen Mitchell is really great. I recommend anything by him, especially Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis and Relationality.

Finally, any recommendation on contemporary American psychoanalytic writing would be incomplete without mentioning Thomas Ogden, especially The Matrix of the Mind and The Primitive Edge of Experience. His more recent works are great as well, but a little more nebulous and might be less applicable to beginning psychoanalytic work.

Oh, and I can't help but recommend this little book by Owen Renik Practical Psychoanalysis. Renik is great, and I really enjoy is work, especially his thinking on "getting real in psychoanalysis." Though he is far from the traditional views of analytic neutrality and abstinence.

BPD patient here (yes, I do read about how I can be treated...) I found this book very tactful and sophisticated. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1585624373/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_EDJJybJR23AAK

Also anything written by John Gunderson and Marsha Linehan.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IOU9IYQ/ref=clair_cor__1?_encoding=UTF8&cor=US&priceChange=1

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If you haven't already, give this a spin

A strange read of course, but it's not how the description makes it out. I expected a kind of incoherent lore to a psychoses, it's not that. I found it particularly interesting that he goes on about his diet impacting his 'ghost bugs' and a study about gut bacteria and schizophrenia was just published

Hello lilrevolution,

If you are looking for a case-based approach, then try Irvin Yalom's book Love's Executioner. It is a series of cases from a psychotherapist's point of view. Very good read and great place to start.

History of psychotherapy explored in a very engaging and informative way is: Freud and Beyond:
http://www.amazon.com/Freud-Beyond-History-Psychoanalytic-Thought/dp/0465014054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342420993&sr=1-1&keywords=freud+and+beyond

If you are looking for learning from a medical student's point of view with cases, then try Blueprints Clinical Cases in Psychiatry or other similar books. Another excellent author is David Robinson, who has written a series of books (on personality disorders and mental status exams, along with other topics), one example is:
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Reel-Portrayals-Psychiatric-Conditions/dp/1894328299/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342420783&sr=8-2&keywords=reel+to+real+robinson

A fantastic series of books is the American Psychiatric Publishing Concise Guides series. The topics range from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, to Psychopharmacology, to Addictions:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=american+psychiatric+publishing+concise+guide&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aamerican+psychiatric+publishing+concise+guide

A lot of non-medication related work in related fields is written by psychologists or other allied health care staff. If you are interested in different modalities of treatment then different authors come to mind. One example is Nancy Mcwilliams - a gifted author and psychotherapist, but may be a bit of a harder read as it is more didactic and meant to be much more educational than Yalom's Love's Executioner.

With respect to fiction, then medical school classics are The House of God by Samuel Shem, and the psychiatric-focused follow up, Mount Misery.

Let me know if I can recommend anything more specific.

I'm not saying that autistic people don't exist and have problems, some of them very severe. I'm saying that the number of people who've been "diagnosed" as "on the autism spectrum" is ridiculous. And overdiagnosing autism is just the tip of the iceberg. The medical profession has been careening from one fad to another for a couple of decades and a certain segment of the population is eating it up. This desire to be labeled "busted" isn't limited to trans people. I see it in the GC subreddits, too. You're nobody unless you have at least several medical/psychiatric problems conveniently designated by initials: MPD, ADHD, PTSD, GID, ASD, SPD, SID etc.. Toss recovered memories in the list of fads, too. The more afflictions, the better. The more nebulous your affliction, the better, too. It makes it easier for claim that you're too fucked up to hold down a real job and function as a self-supporting adult. Honestly, it's very hard to take seriously folks with with countless afflictions. Why sugarcoat it? It's bullshit.

For more on this subject, start with books like:

https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization-ebook/dp/B009NFMITE

https://www.amazon.com/Overdiagnosis-Psychiatry-Creating-Diagnosis-Misfortunes-ebook/dp/B00V58HVYO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535927277&sr=1-1&keywords=Overdiagnosis+in+Psychiatry

Sure, you can buy it on Amazon for an ungodly amount of money.
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Synthesis-II-Strike/dp/096582912X

You can get Sources here:
http://www.amazon.com/Sources-Strike/dp/0965829111/ref=sr_1_17?s=books both by Strike.

...but the books were written using the material found in the forum.

No risk, I'm sure. Great username, btw.

For an extremely detailed biochemical explanation of tolerance and its effects and longevity, I always recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-LSD-critical-review/dp/0199589828/ref=sr_1_45?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449793197&sr=1-45&keywords=LSD

I saw this while I was on Amazon. Might be worth a look.

I asked this question while interviewing for psych residencies, best I've found is Gabbard's text. The first section is an excellent primer on psychodynamic theory, with lots of great historical context.

Sorry, I need to ask, is it this one? https://www.amazon.com/DSM-5-Clinical-Cases-John-Barnhill/dp/1585624632

Or maybe this one

https://www.amazon.de/Learning-Dsm-5-r-Case-Example/dp/1615370161/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1479491751&sr=8-4-fkmr0&keywords=DSM-5+through+clinical+cases

Synopsis Of Psychiatry by Sadock, Sadock and Ruiz

https://www.amazon.com/Kaplan-Sadocks-Synopsis-Psychiatry-Behavioral/dp/1609139712/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537285344&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=synopsis+of+psychiatry+11th+ed&dpPl=1&dpID=51Zh0rYBDaL&ref=plSrch

Pocket DSM - V

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide-DSM-5-Diagnostic-Exam/dp/1585624667/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537285418&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=pocket+dsm+v&dpPl=1&dpID=41n2aRvk4KL&ref=plSrch#

This is quite a lot, I promise.

No excuse now!

(Except that price, gee wizz!)

> the point made generalizes to both authors. Sorry for the confusion.

True. For a few examples, see the Amazon reviews of TSII: https://www.amazon.com/Total-Synthesis-II-Strike/dp/096582912X/

> it's not a straight percentage reduction from different doses

No it isn't. The formula is y= x/100 280.059565 n^-0.412565956

Y represents dosage needed for same effect

x represents last dosage taken

N value represents the number of days since last trip.

You can do it by hand or just use a calculator like this one http://tolerancecalculator.paperplane.io/

Good read on tolerance https://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-LSD-critical-review/dp/0199589828/ref=sr_1_45?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449793197&sr=1-45&keywords=LSD

http://www.amazon.com/First-Aid-Psychiatry-Clerkship-Third/dp/0071739238

I agree, this book is great for the psych shelf :)

You can just order it off the U.K. Amazon site.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909494151/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_buqLzbBG0YKN5

DSM-5 Insanely Simplified is a similar resource I've used. PM me, I can send you a copy xD