Comments on: Psychiatry book club: proposal

By: FP

FP — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:12:07 +0000

My intial proposal got quite a few comments, but then I took ages to write the review as I had an exam and then when I did I got almost no comments – so I abandoned the idea. Which was a shame I thought. I tend to read more popular books about psychiatry than academic texts, which went down rather badly at my last job interview…

By: Prozacville

Prozacville — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:10:16 +0000

I had a similar idea to this, but wanted to do it LIVE: http://londonpsychobookclub.blogspot.com/. I even put up a poster at Karnac (it’s probably still there for all I know). The idea never really took off with my fellow mental-health trainees. Still not sure why….Perhaps an unfortunate, pun-y/puny name for the club?

By: Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier Psychiatrist — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:05:35 +0000

I have finally gotten around to a follow up post to this one. Your opinions on The Bell Jar are very welcome!

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:04:08 +0000

I just read this book last year–it was during one of the more difficult periods of the past couple of years. I succumbed to this urge to steal it from the bookstore where I had begun reading it, but I returned it a couple of weeks later after stewing about it. I wonder if I would have said so if I hadn’t returned it.

I wonder how practical/good/smart it is to read things like this when I am at my worst. It was the same sort of feeling I got when a psychiatrist recommended that I read *Darkness Invisible* at the time I was feeling most suicidal. It’s comforting, it’s validating, but, dangerously, it can be validating.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:30:22 +0000

I’d like to join, if it’s not too late. I’ll go and see if my library has a copy.

Glad you have more time now to work on this website. I come here often and enjoy your posts very much.

By: Tim Atkinson

Tim Atkinson — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:29:33 +0000

Well, at the risk of howls of protest and accusations of self-promotion, I’m goiing to suggest my own book, Writing Therapy. It can be borrowed from the library but – if you do buy – 10% of the royalties go to the charity ‘Young Minds’!

By: Lola Snow

Lola Snow — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:04:55 +0000

I’ve already read it but I’ll read it again because it was “great”, and I am a stereotypical angst ridden bookworm. I don’t think I’m supposed to use the word great for literature, but can’t think of an alternative word without sounding revoltingly pretentious.

I recommend “Wasted” By Marya Hornbacher, but then as I said, I am a stereotype

Lola x

By: Socrates

Socrates — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:06:26 +0000

please subject a “properly” from the above post.

I hope you don’t tolerate that kind of carelessness from your nurses.

Please have me thrashed for my sloppiness

By: Socrates

Socrates — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:04:03 +0000

I’ll have to sit this one out.

I’ll be back when you feature the Doors of Perception…

I’m going to reply properly to the Howard Hughes post properly if I get a minute…

In the meantime an excellent book on a notable oddball:

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo