Basic Psychiatric Literature as Determined from the Recommended Reading Lists of Residency Training Programs
JOAN B. WOODS M.D.1,
SAM PIEPER JR. M.D.2, , and
SHERVERT H. FRAZIER M.D.3
1 Fellow in Child Psychiatry, University of Chicago Clinics, 920 East 59th Street, Chicago, Ill. 60637
2 Resident in Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill
3 Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.
Reading lists for psychiatric residents were obtained from 140 three-year training programs and several rank-orders were determined for the 2,800 books on the lists. All rank-orders agreed on the "most recommended" book and the first 18 books; there was a 92 percent correlation through the first 453 books. A brief look at the subject matter of the first 104 books indicates that the most popular subjects are psychoanalytic theories of personality, schizophrenia, psychotherapy, and child psychiatry.
