Resources for Psychiatry

Textbooks

• Psychology, Chapter 18, ‘Abnormal Psychology’, by Martin, Carlson and Buskist, available at 

• Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience, by Baron-Cohen, Tager-Flusberg and Cohen (eds), available via the library

• Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Diane Langberg -Helpful overview of psychotherapy with examples

• Adaptive Interaction and Dementia: How to Communicate Without Speech by Maggie Ellis

Videos

• Crash Course Psychology ‘Abnormal Psychology’ playlist 
Easy overviews

• The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive 
Documentary by Stephen Fry on his experiences of bipolar affective disorder

• Schizophrenia and Mental Illness 
A video that gives an insight into what hearing voices is like

• Clarification on dysthymia versus depression 

• Understanding PTSD 

• Delirium 

• Antisocial Personality Disorder 

•  Anxiety disorders 

• Learning disabilities 

• Perinatal Psychiatry - long but interesting video on the need for dedicated perinatal services

Further Reading

• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamieson - A memoir by a clinical psychologist who has lived with bipolar affective disorder most of her life

• https://livingbeyondtheborderline.home.blog/ - A blog dedicated to the experience of living with borderline personality disorder (now emotionally unstable personality disorder)

• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - A young adult mystery novel about a girl struggling with OCD, based on Green’s own experiences

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, along with her poetry collections - A fictionalised memoir of when Plath was first admitted to hospital, published within one month of her suicide

• Cut by Patricia McCormick - About the experience of deliberate self-harm

• It’s All in Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan - About medically unexplained symptoms

• A New Name: Grace and Healing for Anorexia by Emma Scrivener

Others:

• Madness and Civilisation by Michel Foucault
• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Resource list compiled by Natalie Clark, 4th year medical student, University of Glasgow, 2020