I'm sure we've had many threads on this
my recommended texts for the beginning resident are:
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines (by far the most useful psychopharm text)
Stahl's Prescriber's Guide
Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Symptoms in the Mind (older editions are better)
Neurological Examination Made Easy
Also suggest:
The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice (old edition will do)
Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes
Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior
Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia
Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias
For later in residency one should focus on case formulation and my recommendations would be from:
Cabaniss DL, Cherry S, Douglas CJ, Graver R, Schwartz AR.
Psychodynamic Formulation. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2013
Campbell WH,, Rohrbaugh RM.
The Biopsychosocial Formulation Manual: A guide for mental health professionals. New York: Routledge, 2006
Chisholm MS, Lyketsos CG.
Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying the Perspectives of Psychiatry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
Johnson L, Dallos R. (Eds.)
Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems. New York: Routledge, 2014
McHugh PR, Slavney PR.
The Perspectives of Psychiatry 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
McWilliams N.
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. New York: Guildford Press, 1999
Persons JB.
The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. New York: Guildford Press, 2008
As a general text Kaplan and Sadock is best. the APA Textbook of psychiatry is just awful (I think they were in a hurry to get it out for the new DSM that it has major omissions of what I would consider important aspects of psychiatry that prevent its use as a survey text).
Also would recommend reading my 100 papers
Papers on conceptual issues in psychiatry I recommend:
Bracken P, Thomas P, Timimi S et al. Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm.
Br J Psychiatry 2012;
201:430-434
Eisenberg L. The social construction of the human brain.
Am J Psychiatry 1995;
152:1563-1575
Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine.
Science 1977;
196:129-36
Ghaemi SN. The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model.
Br J Psychiatry 2009;
195:3-4
Insel TR. Quirion R. Psychiatry as a clinical neuroscience discipline.
JAMA 2005;
294:2221-2224
Kandel ER. A new intellectual framework for psychiatry.
Am J Psychiatry 1998;
155:457-469
Kandel ER. Biology and the future of psychoanalysis: a new intellectual framework for psychiatry revisited.
Am J Psychiatry 1999;
156:505-524
Kendler K. Toward a philosophical structure for psychiatry.
Am J Psychiatry 2005;
162:433-440
Kendler KS. Explanatory models for psychiatric illness.
Am J Psychiatry 2008;
165:695-702
Szasz T. The myth of mental illness.
Am Psychol 1960;
15:113-118
Wakefield JC. The concept of mental disorder: on the boundary between biological facts and social values.
Am Psychol 1992;
47:373-388