 | The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: A Textbook of Principles by Ian Norman
Buy new: £25.54 / Used from: £14.00 no one book covers everything, this comes closest
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 | Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help) by Stuart A. Kirk
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £9.98 before you have to study DSM IV and ICD 10 read this first
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 | Psychiatric Drugs Explained by David Healy MD FRCPsych
Buy new: £18.89 / Used from: £14.00 this is the only book you will ever need about the subject
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 | The Antidepressant Era by D Healy
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £9.71 David Healy is quite easily the best historian of Psychiatry and, in particular, Psychopharmacology, read all his books, but this one first
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 | Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature by Richard P Bentall
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £6.22 there is a LOT in this book, it will give you a grounding in psychopathology, if you persist
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 | Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? by Mary Boyle
Buy new: £18.54 / Used from: £16.00 difficult to read but if you want to investigate why 'schizophrenia' is not as cut and dried as it is made out then it is essential
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 | Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy by Richard Warner
Buy new: £18.07 / Used from: £24.25 'Drug treatment is all too often used as a sub for adequate psychosocial care.' Discuss
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 | Pure Madness: How Fear Drives the Mental Health System by Jeremy Laurance
Buy new: £14.69 / Used from: £4.70 as good a book as there exists examining mental health practice in Britian today, with the message that to prevent risk you need to listen to and engage with service users first
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 | Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £5.30 this is not a 'psychy' book but anyone about to care for vulnerable and isolated people should read it for the appreciation that social networks do have measurable effects on people's lives,
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 | Risk by John Adams
Buy new: £19.41 / Used from: £18.00 this is the best book you will read about 'risk', it will make you think about the subject, which is the whole point of the selection of the books on this list
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 | Status Syndrome: How Your Social Standing Directly Affects Your Health by Michael Marmot
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.00 the best book about health inequalities you're ever likely to read
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 | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £5.70 the concept of 'Stress' is essential in understanding a large part of service users lives, you will not find a better intro into the subject (most often explained by reference to 'fight or flight')
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 | An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.12 if you want to learn about Bipolar Disorder this should be the first book you read
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 | Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin
Buy new: £65.05 / Used from: £71.13 this would be the last (you will not need another)
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 | The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.92 best book about Depression I have read
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 | Working With Serious Mental Illness: A Manual for Clinical Practice
Buy new: £19.49 / Used from: £15.00 best book about psycho-social interventions I have found so far
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 | Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis: A Treatment Handbook
Buy new: £24.19 / Used from: £23.10 the Godfather of Early Interventions in Psychosis
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 | Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First (Rethinking Ageing) by Tom Kitwood
Buy new: £17.53 / Used from: £15.74 the Godfather of 'Personhood,' 'Malignant Social Pychology' and humane Dementia care
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 | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Buy used from: £0.01 thought I'd slip a joke in at the end just to check if you're still reading
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