READING LIST FOR PSYCHIATRY
SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
2005-2006
The clerkship is planned with the expectation that students will do detailed
reading in standard textbooks of psychiatry around issues related to the care of
their patients during the clerkship. In addition, appropriate textbook sections
should be read prior to the seminars. These textbooks use the DSM-IV
diagnostic criteria. Students can purchase one of the recommended textbooks
listed below or borrow them from the library.
INTERVIEW GUIDE FOR EVALUATING DSM-IV PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
AND THE MENTAL STATUS EXAM, by Mark Zimmerman, M.D. Philadelphia:
Psych Press Products, 1994. (Paperback, pp.142) [an inexpensive and useful
pocket guide]
INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY, Third Edition, Nancy C.
Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D. and Donald W. Black, M.D. Washington, DC: American
Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2001. (Paperback, pp. 834)
PSYCHIATRY, by Board Review Series, Roderick Shaner, M.D.
Wilkins, Baltimore, 2000. (Paperback, pp. 378)
Williams &
PSYCHIATRY, Sixth Edition, by David A. Tomb, M.D. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
Williams & Wilkins, House Officer Series, 1999. (Paperback, pp. 291)
If you have questions regarding other textbooks you wish to consider, please
consult a member of our faculty.
BAL/med
966-6997
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Revised: 5/15/2004