Psychiatry Journals

[ShrunkenHeads]

As someone who is embarking on the journey into psychiatry, would those of you in the know say that it is worth getting a subscription to a psychiatry journal, ie: AJP or any other academic journal, basically out of pure interest and also to familiarize myself further to the field, in addition to whatever is available online?

The cost for a non member is high, at 12 issues for $256.00 - but I could justify the cost due to the value of the content (I hope?), if you guys think it may be worth it over the free information available on the web.

Two of the websites I frequent the most would be psychiatric times and psychology today.

Psychology today is an easier read for the layman, whereas PT seems to be more scientific/academic in nature with plenty jargon, though I don't mind it so much because with articles I have a lot of interest in, I'm sent careening to different sources to understand some of the information that I don't understand.

Ideas?

Thanks

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[ShrunkenHeads]

Just came across this:

http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/topics?category=3135633&journal=mywire

 

[kugel]

I'm a big fan of the Journal Watch series, and Carlat Report (the blog is very different), and Psychopharmacology Update.
Then, if I'm particularly interested in an original article, I order it through the hospital librarian.

 

[IAmAUser]

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[nitemagi]

If you join a few organizations like APA, you'll get a host of journals from that alone. Add to that the highwire journal watch/etoc's, and biological therapies in psychiatry (also free to residents), and you have a good start. Plus your institution will likely have electronic access to some journals.

 

[ShrunkenHeads]

I think I'll wait on signing up for a a membership, just in case I decide to change my mind about specialty, also considering the amount of other resources that are available at no additional cost, and as mentioned, my institution should have some publications as well so I'll check that out.

In the meantime, I just happened to pass by one of those unlicensed used book sellers that set up on the side of a road in nyc and picked up a few worthwhile reads at 2 bucks a pop.

"A Text-Book of Psychiatry" - Henderson and Gillespie, Oxford Medical Publications, this copy being from 1932 (would give some great insight into the early beginnings to modern psychiatry)

Research Methods in Psychology - Shaughnessy

Changing My Mind - Margaret Trudeau (wife of late prominent Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau), which seems to center around her dealing with BPD that she came out publicly with in the past few years.

 

[whopper]

If you're in a hospital I'd look to see if their library already had enough journals to keep your interest. Personally I think the green journal and the Carlat Report the better reading. Carlat is very practical with clinically relevant information despite that I have strongly disagreed with several of his posts in this forum. I've found Carlat's blog somewhat...cough cough....kinda like an equivalent to Fox News. It's too sensational and finger pointing for my tastes.

I've found the NEJM highly effective not for psychiatry but for being a medical doctor in general.

 

[sonofthesouth]

Not trying to hijack this thread, but does anyone know the difference between "peer-edited" and "peer reviewed?" Is there any difference, or do they mean the same thing?