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Which would you guys and gals recommend?
For general knowledge/ prep for PRITE/ etc...
For general knowledge/ prep for PRITE/ etc...
APA Textbook of Psychiatry vs Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis
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What would you recommend then?
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Don't like K&S.
The APA book (is it the orange one?), that is better but I still don't like either.
I'd forget about the PRITE. Study for the board exam, ignore the PRITE. The PRITE's questions aren't similar to the board exam other than that they're both on psychiatry. The style of questions are very different despite that they're from the same subject content.
If Dr. Jones teaches physiology, and you want to pass his course you get his old exams and study them. You don't get Dr. Smith's exams who teaches the same course in a different school. It helps but it's better to stick with Dr. Jones's stuff from the beginning.
The PRITE is highly over-rated, has poor questions, and everyone gets all worked up about it because they've come from a culture that measures your worth in a mulitple choice exam. All the PGYs feel it's like they're talking their SATs or USMLE. It's more like taking customer-satisfaction survey.
The APA book (is it the orange one?), that is better but I still don't like either.
I'd forget about the PRITE. Study for the board exam, ignore the PRITE. The PRITE's questions aren't similar to the board exam other than that they're both on psychiatry. The style of questions are very different despite that they're from the same subject content.
If Dr. Jones teaches physiology, and you want to pass his course you get his old exams and study them. You don't get Dr. Smith's exams who teaches the same course in a different school. It helps but it's better to stick with Dr. Jones's stuff from the beginning.
The PRITE is highly over-rated, has poor questions, and everyone gets all worked up about it because they've come from a culture that measures your worth in a mulitple choice exam. All the PGYs feel it's like they're talking their SATs or USMLE. It's more like taking customer-satisfaction survey.
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I would recommend reading some old psychiatric texts to understand psychopathology. These things never change. Then I would read review articles which succintly distill the state of the art on various disorders. You should also read some of the landmark papers on psychiatry. Finally there are good primers for psychopharm and psychotherapy. There are 2 threads on this forum with excellent suggestions.
I have made these recs already but again:
Emil Kraepelin - Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia
Eugen Bleuler - Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias
Max Hamilton - Fish's Clinical Psychopathology (2nd edition) - do not get the recent 3rd edition, it is not very good
Andrew Sims - Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (again get the older one by Sims himself, there are newer ones however the meat has not changed throughout the years)
And for the very brave - there is Karl Jasper's General Psychopathology but it's 2 volumes, largely inpenetrable (but some fantastic descriptions and a must for anyone who likes philosophy!) and most people are just not going to get anywhere near reading it.
The books above are all old and cheap! get used copies and learn how to identify vorbeireden, gedankenlautwerden, and gegenhalten!
I have made these recs already but again:
Emil Kraepelin - Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia
Eugen Bleuler - Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias
Max Hamilton - Fish's Clinical Psychopathology (2nd edition) - do not get the recent 3rd edition, it is not very good
Andrew Sims - Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (again get the older one by Sims himself, there are newer ones however the meat has not changed throughout the years)
And for the very brave - there is Karl Jasper's General Psychopathology but it's 2 volumes, largely inpenetrable (but some fantastic descriptions and a must for anyone who likes philosophy!) and most people are just not going to get anywhere near reading it.
The books above are all old and cheap! get used copies and learn how to identify vorbeireden, gedankenlautwerden, and gegenhalten!
