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Recommended texts:
Psychopathology
Valerie E Scanlon and Tina Saunders, Essentials of anatomy and physiology, ISBN 0803610076. (Not the student workbook, unless you want both) Includes useful chapter on basic chemistry.
James Olsen, Clinical pharmacology made ridiculously simple, 2nd edition, ISBN 094078050X
David Healy, Psychiatric drugs explained Elsevier, 4th edition, ISBN 0443074143
Psychiatry - an illustrated colour text, ISBN 0443057036
Richard P Bentall Madness explained - psychosis and human nature, Penguin, ISBN: 0140275401
Human Development
John Oates (Ed), The Foundations of Child Development. Open University / Blackwell. ISBN: 0631194266
Ann Birch, Developmental Psychology: from infancy to adult, 2nd edition, Palgrave, ISBN: 0333669592
Carol Garhart Mooney, Theories of Childhood: An introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erickson, Piaget and Vygotsky. Redleaf Press. ISBN: 188483485X
Visit the BBC Radio 4 web site for the series: The Invention of Childhood.
Other Useful Reading
Lucy Johnston, Users and abusers of psychiatry: a critical look at psychiatric practice (second edition), Routledge, ISBN: 0-415-211-56-5
John Read, Loren R Mosher and Richard P Bentall, Models of madness: psychological, social and biological approaches to schizophrenia, Brunner-Routledge, ISBN: 1-58391-906-6
Suman Fernando, Mental Health, Race and Culture, Palgrave, ISBN 0333960262
George M Brenner and Craig W Stevens, Pharmacology, 2nd edition, Elsevier, ISBN 1416029842
Kamaldeep Bhui, Scott Weich, Keith Lloyd, Pocket Psychiatry, WB Saunders, ISBN 070202631
Quick Reference Guide to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV-TR American Psychiatric Association, ISBN 0890420262
Pocket Guide to the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, Churchill Livingstone, ISBN 0443049092
Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-637803-X
Peter Breggin, M.D., David Cohen, Ph.D, Your drug may be your problem: how and why to stop taking psychiatric medications, Perseus, ISBN: 0-783203-48-3
Richard Gross & Rob McIlveen, Abnormal Psychology. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN: 0340679506
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