Good Books to have Read for Interviews

[cici10]

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I'm a third year medical student currently applying for psychiatry and was wondering if anyone could suggest any good nonfiction to have read for interviews? I feel like there are probably some books that most people in psychiatry have read. I wend to Borders and there is so much that it's really hard to wade through.

 

[Indryd]

Kay Jameson. Any of her stuff.

 

[billypilgrim37]

Mark Vonnegut's "The Eden Express." Just note that, many years later, the author realizes his diagnosis is actually bipolar disorder, not schizophrenia, and that orthomolecular has been clearly debunked, as he acknowledges in the afterword of most newer editions.

Otherwise, I mean, it's the spawn of Vonnegut...

 

[OldPsychDoc]

I'm a third year medical student currently applying for psychiatry and was wondering if anyone could suggest any good nonfiction to have read for interviews? I feel like there are probably some books that most people in psychiatry have read. I wend to Borders and there is so much that it's really hard to wade through.

Read what you like, fiction or non-fiction, and be yourself.

 

[Indryd]

Read what you like, fiction or non-fiction, and be yourself.

Mah boy is wicked smaht.

 

[cici10]

Thanks for the advice. I guess I should have made myself more clear though. It's not that I was asking for advice because I don't know what kind of books I like to read, it's more that I just wanted some recommendations from other people interested in psychiatry.

 

[masterofmonkeys]

Everything ever written by L Ron Hubbard.

 

[rpkall]

Thomas Szasz has a bunch of books out--he's a psychiatrist who writes about the social implications of the field and argues that mental illness is a construct imposed on society either by the mentally ill or by the psychiatric profession. He's recently taken up with the scientologists (at least he gave some interviews used in the "Industry of Death" propaganda) but some of his writing is actually kind of interesting. It's good reading for people who want to go into the field, and definitely gives some perspective from "the other side."

 

[PsychMedStudent]

There's a sticky at the top of this forum that has 3 pages of recommendations for good psychiatry books. More to OPD's point, however, I wouldn't worry too much about reading psychiatry books just for the sake of your interview. Most of my interviewers were more interested in the non-psychiatry books I had read. But if you really want something to read, I'd recommend picking out what sounds most interesting to you, not what most other people have read.

 

[2tall]

books schmoox. just read this forum!