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Best books to learn Psychiatry, in order

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine with the least settled foundations: practitioners disagree, in public and in print, about what its diagnoses are, what its drugs do, and whether its history is one of progress.

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How should I approach learning psychiatry?
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine with the least settled foundations: practitioners disagree, in public and in print, about what its diagnoses are, what its drugs do, and whether its history is one of progress.
What's a good book to start psychiatry with?
A strong starting point is The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Stephen Szasz. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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