Graduate school bible?

[clinpsychgirl]

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Ok, so my Insiders Guide, APA guide book, and GRE texts are going up on the shelf and have been replaced with the Publication Manual and the Quick Reference to the DSM-IV-TR 🙂

What else is a must-read for graduate students of psychology? Specifically, what is a "good read" like the insiders guide but for actual graduate students?

Any thoughts? What is your graduate school bible?

 

[Psyclops]

This is kind of lame but the Dictionary of Psychology by Penguin is pretty useful but unglamourous. It'll help with your breadth classes or obscure allusions.

 

[Psyclops]

Can we make this into a great books for psychology thread? Is that ok with you clinpsychgirl? If everyone could share their favorites, be it Fromm or Skinner and why I think that would be a delight.

I'll start, I think that "The Interpersonal Theory Of Psychiatry" Harry Stack Sullivan (1953) is a must read. Especially if you have any interests in Psychodynamic or Interpersonal theory. I think it is a leaping off point for modern psychodynamic theory.

 

[clinpsychgirl]

Can we make this into a great books for psychology thread? Is that ok with you clinpsychgirl? If everyone could share their favorites, be it Fromm or Skinner and why I think that would be a delight.

I'll start, I think that "The Interpersonal Theory Of Psychiatry" Harry Stack Sullivan (1953) is a must read. Especially if you have any interests in Psychodynamic or Interpersonal theory. I think it is a leaping off point for modern psychodynamic theory.

That's cool with me. Have we done that before? You know what else would be handy? If anyone knows really good graduate-student focused websites- pass them on over!

 

[SaraL124]

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom has been heavily recomended to me. It;s on my "to-read" list.

 

[bigmood]

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom has been heavily recomended to me. It;s on my "to-read" list.

Yalom's Love's Executioner is a great book as well.

 

[perfektspace]

"Sickened" by Julie Gregory is a fascinating, albeit disturbing, memoir of a Munchausen by proxy childhood. An inside look into a mysterious disorder.

 

[soaringheights]

Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams is a good and rare first hand account of Autism. She's also written a 2nd book Somebody Somewhere, but it does not match up to the 1st book.

Reconstructing Schizophrenia by Richard Bentall....a very different approach towards seeing schizophrenia aside from the biological model...gets u thinking on the validity of the concept of schizophrenia.

 

[clinpsychgirl]

Yalom's Love's Executioner is a great book as well.

I second this one. Even though it was pretty psychoanalytic... it was still a great read!

 

[lazure]

I second this one. Even though it was pretty psychoanalytic... it was still a great read!

that book annoyed me to no end - particularly the treatment of the client-therapist duo....

 

[bigmood]

that book annoyed me to no end - particularly the treatment of the client-therapist duo....

yeah, i don't subscribe to the therapy techniques, but as a book on life in general and coming to terms with the reality of death, etc.., etc... it was pretty insightful.

 

[flanagan10]

Well, if you have any interst in sort of a relativism, cross-cultural perspective, I really liked:

Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community

I also just read these three books, and I really enjoyed them:

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux

Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible

Between Therapist and Client : The New Relationship by Michael Kahn

 

[Psyclops]

If I ran the zoo I would make this one required reading, especially for those who are going into PsyD prgrams. House of Cards, by Robyn Dawes.

It's good to hear the arguments against what you believe in from time to time, it really helps to get your own beliefs straight.

 

[Flutterbyu]

All-time favorite-
Man's Search for Meaning- Frankl

Post-first year of grad school favorite-
Neurotic Styles - David Shapiro
Lost in Translation - Eva Hoffman

 

[clinpsychgirl]

any good books that help you succeed as a graduate student; perhaps getting the masters done in a timely manner (as this will likely an initial milestone for us to reach)?

 

[MsAnaF]

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom has been heavily recomended to me. It;s on my "to-read" list.

This book is fantastic, especially if you are a big Yalom fan like me. I also just finished When Nietzsche Wept by Yalom - a bit cheesy, but definitely work reading.

 

[LM02]

any good books that help you succeed as a graduate student; perhaps getting the masters done in a timely manner (as this will likely an initial milestone for us to reach)?

Sternberg has a couple of books that address how to get through grad school - don't know the names off the top of my head, but a quick Amazon search should ID them.

In the later years of grad school, The Compleat Academic is pretty useful. It's more geared toward completion of the PhD and the academic job search, so I would definitely wait to look at that one (unless you want to needlessly freak yourself out!). 😉

 

[clinpsychgirl]

Sternberg has a couple of books that address how to get through grad school - don't know the names off the top of my head, but a quick Amazon search should ID them.

In the later years of grad school, The Compleat Academic is pretty useful. It's more geared toward completion of the PhD and the academic job search, so I would definitely wait to look at that one (unless you want to needlessly freak yourself out!). 😉

LOL... you never know, I just may want to needlessly freak myself out. Anyway, thanks for the tips!