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The following are suggested and/or recommended textbooks:

Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry - A good primer for those beginning to learn psychiatry. The authors bring their substantial clinical and research expertise to the book and manage to impart their extensive knowledge in a clear and concise way that is both is on one hand practical but on the other hand shows a depth and appreciation for the complexity and challenges of the discipline of psychiatry.
Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD and Donald W. Black, MD
American Psychiatric Publishing, Third Edition, 2001
- Highly Recommended (User friendly textbook for persons newly introduced to the field of psychiatry)
Psychiatry - This popular handbook is a concise, authoritative guide to psychiatry, including new treatment guidelines. Psychiatry is the most up-to-date reference available for the psychiatry clerkship and residency.
Rhoda Hahn, MD; Lawrence Albers, MD; and Christopher Reist, MD
Current Clinical Strategies Publishing, 2006
- Highly Recommended (Good clinical pocket-book)
Psychiatry, Board Review Series - A review of psychiatry in outline format. For medical students preparing for course exams or the USMLE Step 2. Covers psychiatric diagnoses, guidelines for treatment, and psychiatric facts.
Roderick Shaner
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2nd Edition, 2000
- Recommended (Test-like question and answer format; easier to read than NMS)
NMS Psychiatry - Chapter topics include the clinical examination, personality disorders, and cognitive and mental disorders due to general medical conditions, substance-related disorders, somatoform and associated disorders, sexual and gender issues, child psychiatry.
James H. Scully, Jr. MD
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 4th Edition, 2001
- Recommended (Test-like question and answer format; good test preparation)
Kaplan & Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry - A staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents, practitioners, and mental health professionals in an easy-to-scan outline format. The book summarizes the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders.
Benjamin Sadock, MD and Virginia Sadock, MD
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Fourth Edition, 2005
- Suggested (Good concise clinical handbook. Useful for clerkship and later)
DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - The handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States. The criteria and classification system of the DSM are based on a process of consultation and committee meetings involving primarily psychiatrists.
American Psychiatric Association, 4th Edition, 2000
- Recommended (Diagnostic Criteria)
DSM-IV Casebook - A Learning Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).
Miriam Gibbon and Robert Spitzer (Editors)
American Psychiatric Association, 2002
- Suggested (A good book to review case presentations of DSM-IV diagnoses)

Please email comments, suggestions or questions to the
Medical Education Coordinator:

bmaddox@mcg.edu

July 1, 2008