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“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Below are links to the BEST books on different topics–for mental health clinicians.

BEST Books on Psychiatric Interviewing

BEST books for clinicians about evaluating and treating personality disorders

BEST Books on Learning Psychotherapy

BEST books about doing presentations

BEST Books on Statistics for Clinicians

BEST books on Evidence-Based Medicine

BEST Articles for Psychiatry Residents

Note: Buying from Amazon.com using links on this website helps to support this website at no additional cost to the purchaser.

For patients and their families

We should *routinely* recommend to patients (and their loved ones) very *specific* book(s) about their illness because this allows patients to educate themselves. Two rules about this that I follow are:

1) Only one or two of the best books for that purpose, NOT a list of twenty. Listing twenty usually guarantees that the person will read none.

2) Only books that will be USEFUL, not those that are just “interesting.” Some of the best ones are listed on this website under the different conditions — depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD.

Symptoms and Signs

Commonly misunderstood terms in symptoms and signs

Comments

Rmsilverman says

April 4, 2019 at 8:50 am

JAMA. this month had interesting article on AUD. They used WHO Criteria to study risk reduction and medication. Can you comment on any differences in the criteria and also on the issue of harm reduction versus abstention strategies? Thanks

Randi Mittleman says

February 17, 2018 at 1:04 pm

Can you please comment on the evaluation and treatment of tic disorders?

- Rajnish Mago, MD says
  
  February 19, 2018 at 11:09 am
  
  Noted! Will do soon.
  
Toni Sparks says

December 26, 2017 at 11:12 pm

What is best clinical evidence to provide patients requesting medical approval for plasma donation ? I have been denying these requests. First d/t protein bound drugs that will be disrupted and second, the donation centers ask for excessive details pertaining to the patients mental health information: diagnosis, treatments, all medications, safety profile. The forms are long and cumbersome.

- Rajnish Mago, MD says
  
  December 27, 2017 at 11:09 am
  
  Thank you for your question. It has now been answered at this link: https://simpleandpractical.com/blood-plasma-donation-mental-health/
  
drkishore says

October 25, 2017 at 8:00 am

Hello Dr. Mago,
Your daily posts are worth more than what we are paying for.
Thanks
Pankaj Kishore MD

lantar says

May 13, 2017 at 1:03 am

What do you recommend to patients with occasional migraines (head or gut) that are prescribed sumatriptan for intermittent use, while on an SSRI or SNRI? I have a patient prescribed an injectable 0.5 mg subcutaneous for cyclic vomiting syndrome, while on 75 mg BID of Effexor ER.She has been told Risks/Benefits and Alternatives and has been told about the signs and symptoms of serotonin syndrome. The question is, how do you know how much serotonin is too much serotonin before your patient is in trouble?

alexa says

February 20, 2017 at 5:34 pm

What do you think about the Proton Pump Inhibitors and Dementia? Are they linked? What is the risk?

- Rajnish Mago, MD says
  
  March 11, 2017 at 1:49 pm
  
  Hi Alexa. Your question has now been answered at this link: https://simpleandpractical.com/proton-pump-inhibitors-cognitive-impairment-dementia/
  
Ernest Braasch says

December 1, 2016 at 8:32 pm

What are the interactions between antibiotics and psychotropic medications?