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My psych residents find Stahl's Prescriber Guide to be very helpful for clinical decision making. I believe the latest edition is the 5th.

Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is good for general psych knowledge. Latest edition is 11th I believe.

Don't forget to have a copy of the DSM 5! At least for billing/coding purposes. Despite its limitations, it is the system that all insurances, etc use.

Also a shout out to Daniel Carlat's website, newletter and CME products. I find them helpful, and devoid of any Pharma advertising.

These are good sources for the psychopharm side of practice. If you are interested in doing psychotherapy, there are some good sources out there as well.

Hope this helps. And thanks for entering our field. We desperately need more good people, and the work though tough is very rewarding.

I feel like most psychiatrists think psychodynamically, but prescribe therapy cognitive-behaviorally. I recommend, Brief Dynamic Therapy by Hanna Levenson. This helped me conceptualize maladaptive behavior in a way that really fit my own worldview. It's dynamic theory but has many CBT components, and it's super short.

Right now I'm reading Persuasion in Healing. It's not exactly what you're asking for but it gives an interesting history of conceptualizing the healer and their role in the relationship.

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 find certain things helpful to get my diagnosis across in an acceptable manner: 1) Once I'm confident of my impression regarding a diagnosis of BPD, I would pull out a rating scale such as the Borderline Personality Questionnaire and go through it with them to lend more of a "scientific" feel to the process (but I wouldn't pull this out early on in the process as it may alienate the patient); 2) I usually give them printed material regarding the diagnosis, such as this one from Spectrum Australia; and 3) I tell them to watch the movie Girl, Interrupted (or read the book on which it is based) with instructions to see if they identified with the titular character.

A couple of my recent favourites:

Neurotribes by Silberman - interesting and easy read on the history of Autism/Aspergers

Stuff by Frost - entertaining book around the history and current theories of hoarding

Rohrbaugh's book is pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Biopsychosocial-Formulation-Manual-Mental-Professionals/dp/0415951429

M3 friend had one of his mentors recommend Of Two Minds

Thoose are the ones i recommend:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuroanatomy-Neuroscience-Glance-Roger-Barker/dp/0470657685 ;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuroanatomy-Illustrated-Colour-Text-5e/dp/0702054054/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QHGC1A20Q7SFNPYKBGTZ ;
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0702034479?ref_=ams_ad_dp_asin_1

If you rather want to watch some videos to brush up neuroanatomy try thoose lectures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8sE6RWO1w&list=PL9p9Jbmx_bu1ufaOQpsaO3RSLmlvn5C8G&index=1 ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq8PPqUDTSo&list=PL2FAE900505D658FE ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzsmCu427I&list=PLKcA4nlXtvJbCGdOHMvHOT-6Szuq_VrTq

I know that many of the early (last decade) EEG studies covering mood states and functional networks in bipolar disorder are covered in this book, which highlights some more general approaches based on experimental data.

For more academics, I would vouch for starting off somewhere like here for a review of BD in general, particularly network activity in euthymia and with a history of psychosis. These (1, 2) seem to cover the main bases for pathological states. The is a nice convergence of PET, EEG, and fMRI data over the past few years so if you're finding yourself wandering down one modality rabbit hole its worth checking out the others for completeness.

Sorry about the delay, i would recommend either one of these assuming you have some basic knowledge. have fun!

https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Disorders-Modern-Theodore-Millon/dp/0471237345
https://www.amazon.com/Severe-Personality-Disorders-Psychotherapeutic-Strategies/dp/0300053495

Okay, if it's true anxiety, then you need CBT. Try this book, it helped me: Mind Over Mood

There's a few colouring books out there that help familiarize folks with the anatomy of the brain. This one is a classic.

You're probably thinking about this textbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Psychiatry-Katherine-D-Warburton/dp/1107092191

Michael A Cummings wrote a chapter in it about psychopathy. Found this via google searching, so it might not exactly be what youre looking for.

You might wan to read this book; http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452425 - it's a harshly critical look at the modern psychiatric practitioner's reliance on drug based treatements.

Also - for what it is worth - my Sister In Law is a VA psychologist. In her job she is the "one who councils and works with the veterans" and the staff psychologist is the one who "gives them their drugs". As a layman this seems to be a pretty common state of affairs.

I don't know how to link to a comment but here is a reply to a post I
made in this dialogue;

British Psychological Society declares that psychiatric models of mental illness have no basis in scientific evidence

http://www.reddit.com/tb/1e6eur

>comment replyBritish Psychological Society declares that psychiatric models of mental illness have no basis in scientific evidence
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My only experience with a US psychiatrist was "Here take these meds, let me know how they work in a week." I came back in a week and said they were working good. He then proceeded to give me a 3 month prescription. Hardly any talking at all after he made sure i wasn't suicidal.
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Some other people who have done similar things:

BBC video about psychologist Rufus May who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and his work with a medical student who was hearing voices: https://vimeo.com/147827258

TED talk by psychologist Eleanor Longden who hears voices: https://youtu.be/syjEN3peCJw

Pacific Standard Magazine article about Professor Nev Jones who has also experienced psychosis. Helpful in revealing struggles students with mental health challenges can experience in academia: https://psmag.com/magazine/the-touch-of-madness-mental-health-schizophrenia

Ahmed Hankir writing about his experience with mental illness while working to become a psychiatrist: https://medium.com/inspire-the-mind/the-wounded-healer-harnessing-the-power-of-the-performing-arts-to-reduce-mental-health-related-cb519eb397cf

Psychologist Pat Deegan talking about carrying the diagnosis of schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/jhK-7DkWaKE

Mark Vonnegut a pediatrician, has written two books about his experience with psychosis. Here is one of them: 
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Someone-Without-Mental-Illness/dp/0385343809

Stephen Hinshaw put together an anthology with mental health professionals writing about their personal or family experiences with mental illness: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Silence-Professionals-Disclose-Experiences/dp/0195320263

A number of people in my psychiatric nurse practitioner program had experienced mental health problems, and at least one faculty member shared about her experience with psychosis and depression. Take care of yourself and go for it! 

A delusion of perception is where a normally perceived object (whistle) is given delusional meaning (I knew there was a plot to attack me). There are two stages: 1. a normal perception and 2. attribution of delusional meaning.

The attribution is abnormal and the meaning is hard to understand. The meaning is often self-referential. For patients the time span between 1 and 2 can be minutes to years.

Ref: Sims