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Human Development, Psychopathology and Pharmacology

 

 

Two books that every psychotherapist needs to have are:

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy - Gabbard, Beck & Holmes * Editors. ISBN: 0198520646

Constructivism in Psychotherapy - Neimeyer & Mahoney * Editors. ISBN: 1557982791




 

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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