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Journal Article
Ten books
2010
Overview
It is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically identify ten books
that have been influential over a professional lifetime, not least since
many have probably exerted their influence in long-forgotten ways: part of
that semantic sediment laid down by protracted reading (and conversation).
However, I do know that George Orwell was the first serious writer whom I
read ‘of my own free will’ and I know that I would not wish to be without
the works of Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Don DeLillo,
Graham Greene, Henning Mankell or W.G. Sebald. I can remember that books on
Buddhism sustained me through senior house officer jobs in a number of
medical specialties (trying to focus, single-mindedly, on the task in hand
rather than my tiredness or distraction), and I suspect that the metaphors
of my thought and speech had already been much influenced by exposure to the
Bible. Here, I focus on those books that have informed the way I think about
psychiatry right now and how it might be practised.
