Resources

Here you will find resources that we found helpful for developing the concepts explored on this site. If you wish to explore diagnostic thinking in psychiatry, these publications will be helpful.

For people seeking a psychiatrist who would be trained in the concepts reviewed in this blog:

https://www.psychiatryletter.net/referral-center

Some of the published resources for this site:

Clinical Psychopharmacology (2019) by Nassir Ghaemi, Oxford Press (available through Amazon)

International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology – inhn.org

The Psychiatric Letter: Monthly Newsletter from 2015-2018. psychiatricletter.net

Advanced Psychopharmacology 2020 parts 1-10 by Nassir Ghaemi, psychiatricletter.net

Advanced Psychiatric Diagnosis 2021 parts 1-10 by Nassir Ghaemi, psychiatricletter.net

Manic Depressive Illness – Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Frederic K. Goodwin and Kay Jamison 2007

How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown (2013) Edward Shorter

CME Video presentations from Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) by Roger McIntyre MD and Stephen Stahl MD from 2016-2021.

Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology 2013 – Stephen Stahl (chapter 6, Mood disorders)

For exceptional scholarly detail on the origins of DSM-III to DSM-5 please see:

“The Making of DSM-III: a diagnostic manual’s conquest of American psychiatry (2013) Hannah Decker

What Psychiatry left out of the DSM-5 History of mental disorders today (2015), Edward Shorter

Before Prozac: The troubled History of Mood disorders in Psychiatry (2008) Edward Shorter

How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown (2013) Edward Shorter

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. (2019) Ann Herrington

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