History of major works in psychiatry
The following classic texts can crop up in the exams. It is not necessary to read them all but you must know the author and have an idea what they are about.
Michel Foucault
Madness and civilization
Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Psychopathology of everyday life
Thomas Szasz
The myth of mental illness
Erving Goffman
Asylums
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Ronald Laing
The divided self
Emile Durkheim
Le suicide
Durkheim proposed social causes for suicide. Until his work was published, suicide had been thought of as an individual act only.
Tom Main
The Ailment
Jerome Frank
Persuasion and Healing
George Brown and Tirril Harris
Social origins of depression
Michel Foucault
Madness and civilization
Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Psychopathology of everyday life
Thomas Szasz
The myth of mental illness
Erving Goffman
Asylums
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Ronald Laing
The divided self
Emile Durkheim
Le suicide
Durkheim proposed social causes for suicide. Until his work was published, suicide had been thought of as an individual act only.
Tom Main
The Ailment
Jerome Frank
Persuasion and Healing
George Brown and Tirril Harris
Social origins of depression
