British Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychiatry is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Back matter175
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. By Adam Shatz. Apollo. International Edition. 2024. £19.57 (hb). 464 pp. ISBN 978-103590004687
Genes in context: path to more precise risk prediction in psychiatry?87
The garden of tomorrow – Reflection71
Premenstrual exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms: from misdiagnosis to management: commentary, Hudaib69
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis: commentary, Sethi and Hanif65
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything By Gregory L. Murphy. MIT Press. 2024. £30.65 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 978-026254703163
Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes By Femi Oyebode Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 272 pp. ISBN 978110871677261
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Shergill et al53
Methylphenidate for prison inmates with ADHD: yes or no?51
Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding By Peter Tyrer and Roger Mulder Cambridge University Press. 2022 £29.99 (pb). 172 pp. ISBN: 978110894837150
The illumination of dreams: André Breton's (1896–1966) Les vases communicants – psychiatry in literature48
Association of volatile substance, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrate use with mental health in UK adolescents43
Functional and effective connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks underlying subclinical binge eating43
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review41
Biomarkers of reproductive psychiatric disorders39
Phantasm and suicide – Psychiatry in movies39
The effects of collaborative care versus consultation liaison for anxiety disorders and depression in Denmark: two randomised controlled trials38
Symptom-oriented clinical psychiatry38
The extent to which child- and parent-report Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale, short Mood and Feeling Questionnaire, Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire and child-report KIDSCREEN ide37
Medication and atypical brain maturation in psychosis associated with long-term cognitive decline and symptom progression36
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): often a missed diagnosis and misdiagnosed – CORRIGENDUM35
Prenatal exposure to benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and long-term risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring: nationwide cohort study34
The harming power of shame33
Lithium orotate: distinct compound or simply Li + after administration?33
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics By Ernesto Londoño. Orion Spring. May 2024. £15.29 (pb). 320 pp. ISBN 978-139871405230
The Ghost in the Addict. By Shepard Siegel. The MIT Press. £33 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN 9780262547970.30
BJP volume 225 issue 5 Cover and Back matter30
Provision of electroconvulsive therapy in Italy29
Apropos suicide verdicts: Lord Clifford strangled himself with his cravat in 1673? Beyond reasonable doubt versus the balance of probabilities – Psychiatry in the arts28
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Edited by Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, Patrick Luyten and Martin Debbané Cambridge University Press. 2023. £34.99 (pb). 416 pp.27
Longitudinal changes in the mental health of those affected by the 2017 Manchester Arena attack: 3-year follow-up of adults seeking support from the Resilience Hub26
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Front matter26
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry and Mental Illness During the First World War. By Charles Glass. Bedford Square Publishers. 2023. £16.49 (hb). 352 pp. ISBN 978-1835010150.26
Self-harm in children and young people who die by suicide: UK-wide consecutive case series25
Exploring the cortisol awakening response in premenstrual dysphoric disorder and in healthy females across the menstrual cycle – ERRATUM25
Prediction of suicidal behaviour as a three-body problem25
Neurocognitive skills and vulnerability for psychosis in depression and across the psychotic spectrum: findings from the PRONIA Consortium25
Participatory translational science of neurodivergence: model for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism research25
Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding: relationship to peripheral blood DNA methylation, recent life stress and childhood adversity in unmedicated major depression25
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach25
An indescribable suffering – Reflections24
From autism to the plural ‘autisms’: evidence from differing aetiologies, developmental trajectories and symptom intensity combinations24
Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis23
Devouring the self: from Erysichthon to modern autophagia – Psychiatry in literature23
Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline? Patients, Policy and Practice in Public Mental Hospitals in England, 1918–1930 By Claire Hilton. UCL Press. July 2025. 40.00 GBP (pb). 292 pp. ISBN 978-18000886023
‘Fair and balanced?’: quality of suicide-related reporting on major US cable news networks22
Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation and Treatment By Frederick J. Stoddard, Craig L. Katz and Grant H. Brenner. American Psychiatric Association Publishing. 2025. £65.03 (pb). 277 pp. ISBN 978-22
Real-world studies in psychiatry: insights into antipsychotic-associated breast cancer risk and their broader implications22
On call – Poem21
Moderators of antidepressant augmentation versus switch in the OPTIMUM randomised controlled trial21
India’s Tele-MANAS: evolution, early outcomes and a scalable blueprint for digital public mental health20
A paradigm for studying the human impacts of disasters and extreme events using liminality20
Risk of self-harm and suicide associated with the use of opioid analgesics20
Post-traumatic stress disorder rates in trauma-exposed children and adolescents: updated three-level meta-analysis20
BJP volume 223 issue 3 Cover and Back matter19
Association of cannabis, cannabidiol and synthetic cannabinoid use with mental health in UK adolescents19
Lithium: challenges of being king19
BJP volume 222 issue 4 Cover and Back matter19
BJP volume 224 issue 1 Cover and Back matter19
Looking for valid markers of anxiety19
The Precision Psychiatry Imperative: Response to Seyedsalehi et al – ERRATUM19
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Pelosi18
Dysphoria in contemporary psychiatry: forgotten affective state in need of diagnostic recognition18
Kaleidoscope18
Bethlem Royal Hospital at Monks’ Orchard, Beckenham – Psychiatry in pictures18
Kaleidoscope17
Highlights of this issue16
Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective: Faith in Reform Edited by Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis and Rob Ellis. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. £99.99 (hb). 314 pp.16
Reascending the magic mountain: Thomas Mann's Dr Krokowski and modern psychiatry – psychiatry in history16
What We Fear Most: A Psychiatrist's Journey to the Heart of Madness By Ben Cave. Seven Dials. 2022. £9.99 (pb). 368 pp. ISBN: 978-184188554416
Engaging the next generation of psychiatrists for geriatric psychiatry: call for action on behalf of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry15
Why psychiatry needs ethnography15
Algorithmic fairness in precision psychiatry: analysis of prediction models in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis14
Attitudes towards mental health professionals in social media: infodemiology study: commentary, Shahbaz et al14
When the future escapes: study of the sense of control in predictions about the future over time after exposure to a traumatic event14
Systematic review of the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for improving quality of life of people with dementia14
Investing in mental health: a path to economic growth through psychological therapies14
Development and initial evaluation of a clinical prediction model for risk of treatment resistance in first-episode psychosis: Schizophrenia Prediction of Resistance to Treatment (SPIRIT)14
Impact of anxiety and depression across childhood and adolescence on adverse outcomes in young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study13
A philosopher asks whether therapy should be evaluated like drugs13
Tower – Poem13
Lessons from the Lumipulse recall for Alzheimer’s disease blood biomarkers13
Psychotherapists versus artificial intelligence: let’s not raise the white flag12
Altered prefrontal effective connectivity during emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder12
BJP volume 223 issue 1 Cover and Back matter12
Can critical components of effective early intervention in psychosis also advance early detection and preventive care for young people at risk?12
A clinician’s guide to probabilistic suicide risk prediction tools12
BJP volume 225 issue 4 Cover and Back matter12
Psychiatric prescribing patterns in patients with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder in the UK: 2000 to 202212
New directions for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: towards an EPDS-R (revised)12
Improving dementia prognostication in cognitively normal older adults: conventional versus novel approaches to modelling risk associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms12
Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (9th edn) By David Kaufman, Howard Geyer, Mark Milstein and Jillian Rosengard Elsevier. 2022. 700pp. £122.99 (hb). ISBN: 978-032379680411
Severe mental illness, race/ethnicity, multimorbidity and mortality following COVID-19 infection: nationally representative cohort study – ADDENDUM11
Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples11
Kaleidoscope11
BJP volume 227 issue 3 Cover and Back matter11
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and self-harm/suicide ideation: population wide, data linkage study and time series analysis: Commentary, Patra et al11
BJP volume 226 issue 4 Cover and Front matter11
Investigating whether offshore immigration detention and processing are associated with an increased likelihood of psychological disorders11
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion By Ema Sullivan-Bissett. Routledge. 2024. £186.79 (hb). 584pp. ISBN 978-103228338811
Mental health services in Ukraine during the early phases of the 2022 Russian invasion10
Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study10
Association of hippocampal subfield volumes with prevalence, course and incidence of depressive symptoms: The Maastricht Study10
Association between dietary fat intake and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: Mendelian randomisation study10
Cognitive trajectories following onset of psychosis: a meta-analysis10
Attitudes towards mental health professionals in social media: infodemiology study10
Stigma and the pejorative use of disabling conditions10
Scaling up mental health interventions for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: evidence for integration into differentiated service delivery programmes10
Dynamic comorbidity trajectories spanning the diagnosis of depression: nationwide cohort study9
Associations of mental disorders in children with parents' subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark9
The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature By Allan Schore. W.W. Norton & Co. 2025. £34.00 (hb). 512 pp. ISBN: 978-13240829589
From physiology to pathology in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD9
Jamais Vu - Poem9
Neurosteroids and premenstrual dysphoric disorder9
Camouflaging in ADHD: the need for construct validation before clinical adoption9
BJP volume 225 issue 1 Cover and Front matter9
BJP volume 228 issue 5 Cover and Front matter9
Hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit define eye movement biomarkers of anxiety disorders9
Peer support and the performative turn: when lived experience risks losing its radicality9
Thirty-year outcome of anorexia nervosa: healthcare use and disability9
Child maltreatment and telomere length in middle and older age: retrospective cohort study of 141 748 UK Biobank participants8
Anxiety and mood disorders in secondary care: commentary, Sathian8
Intervening early across the lifespan: going beyond youth-focused psychosis care to meet the needs of women8
The phenomenology within Cézanne's work: a reflection – Psychiatry in art8
Spirituality and Psychiatry (2nd edn) Edited by Christopher C.H. Cook and Andrew Powell. Cambridge University Press. 2022. £39.99 (pb). 418 pp. ISBN 97819116233048
Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial8
The effectiveness of a primary care-based collaborative care model to improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness: PARTNERS2 cluster randomised controlled trial8
BJP volume 228 issue 3 Cover and Back matter8
Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes By David Enoch, Basant K. Puri & Hadrian Ball 5th edn. Routledge. 2021. £53.99 (pb). 304 pp. ISBN 97814987879568
Understanding the effects of a complex psychological intervention on symptoms of depression in Goa, India: findings from a causal mediation analysis8
BJP volume 227 issue 4 Cover and Front matter8
Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study8
Methodological obstacles in studies linking hormonal contraception and depression8
Subversion of publishing comes to a boil: is it time to lance it?8
Assisted dying for mental illness: commentary, Breen8
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Breen8
'The medical self' – a student's perspective8
Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of overspecialisation8
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis7
Silent scars: how armed conflict is traumatising Kashmir’s children, and the need for critical intervention7
GALENOS approach to triangulating evidence (GATE): transforming the landscape of psychiatric research7
Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions Edited by Hanfried Helmchen, Norman Sartorius, Jakov Gather. Springer. 2025. £179.99 (hb). 781 pp. ISBN 978-94024227337
Seeking Asylum and Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Professionals Edited by Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki and Alison Summers. Cambridge University Press. 2022. £39.99 (hb). 308 pp. ISBN 97819116239777
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan By Timothy M. Yang Cornell University Press. 2021. £44 (hb). 354 pp. ISBN 97815017562527
How to put psychiatrists back at the centre of medicine’s innovation7
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review7
Mental healthcare equity: case for data science investment7
Best interest and family compromise7
BJP volume 225 issue 6 Cover and Back matter7
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis7
Global, regional and national burden of depressive disorders and attributable risk factors, from 1990 to 2021: results from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study7
Precision psychiatry: thinking beyond simple prediction models – enhancing causal predictions: commentary, Seyedsalehi et al7
Real-world effectiveness of mono- and combination therapies of mood stabilisers and antipsychotics in bipolar disorder: nationwide, within-individual study of 315 046 patients7
Psychiatry in children's literature: guess how much I hate you – Extra7
BJP volume 223 issue 4 Cover and Back matter7
Latent profiles identified from psychological test data for people convicted of sexual offences in the UK6
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Kumari6
Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study: commentary, Udo et al6
Clozapine initiation in a vacuum6
BJP volume 225 issue 1 Cover and Back matter6
Clozapine, relapse, and adverse events: a 10-year electronic cohort study in Canada: commentary: author response6
The digital redesign of mental health: leveraging connected digital technologies for agency-driven patient-focused care6
Evaluating Computerised Assessment of Motor Imitation (CAMI) for identifying autism-specific difficulties not observed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or neurotypical development6
Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression6
Treatment with psychostimulants and atomoxetine in people with psychotic disorders: reassessing the risk of clinical deterioration in a real-world setting6
Psychiatric symptoms on the ovarian hormone roller-coaster6
The usability and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future dementia risk in ageing UK adults: CORRIGENDUM6
Predictors of primary care psychological therapy outcomes for depression and anxiety in people living with dementia: evidence from national healthcare records in England6
Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study6
Lipid-modifying agents and risk of all-cause, natural and suicide mortality in schizophrenia: nationwide cohort study: commentary, Kuo et al6
Climate change and mental health: overview of UK policy and regulatory frameworks to stimulate and inform future research and practice6
The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism: commentary, McKinnon et al6
Advancing ketamine in the treatment hierarchy for refractory depression6
The Concept of Emotional Disorder By Gloria Sibson Ayob. Oxford University Press. 2024. £45.00 (pb). 240 pp. ISBN 978-01989096066
Clozapine monitoring requirements: is it time for an update?6
The interface of autism and (borderline) personality disorder6
Franco Basaglia (1924–1980): the reformer of the Italian psychiatric system – Psychiatry in history6
Engaging the next generation of psychiatrists for geriatric psychiatry: call for action on behalf of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (EAGP): commentary, Oude Voshaar6
Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: a critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Tromans et al6
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and cognitive performance in mild cognitive impairment6
BJP volume 225 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Hearing Spiritual Voices – Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry By Christopher C.H. Cook. T & T Clark. 2023. £14.39 (pb). 152 pp. ISBN 9780567707970 – CORRIGENDUM6
Antipsychotic therapy and suicide risk in patients with treatment-resistant depression: target trial emulation framework study6
Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive–behavioural therapy delivery formats for obsessive–compulsive disorder: network meta-analysis6
BJP volume 228 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics as a clinical characterisation dimension in the assessment of major depressive disorder5
The Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues Edited by Julian C Hughes and Ilora G Finlay. Open University Press. 2024. £22.99 (pb). 248 pp. ISBN 97803352531735
Prediction of individualised 6-month mortality risk in opioid use disorder5
Building a digital intervention to support young people with disordered mood and on the waiting list to optimise safety, acceptability and effectiveness5
Has mental health changed in children and adolescents registered with a dedicated support service responding to the Manchester Arena attack: 3-year follow-up: commentary, McFarlane5
Algorithmic dopamine economies: emerging psychiatric challenges in an artificial-intelligence-mediated attention ecology5
Comorbid depression can compromise capacity: a consequential complication for assisted dying considerations5
BJP volume 222 issue 3 Cover and Back matter5
Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira: commentary5
BJP volume 229 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
A network and thematic analysis of mental health-related Prevention of Future Death reports from 2013 to 2025 in England and Wales5
Reclaiming medical leadership: an imperative for psychiatry and psychiatrists5
Prediction of fatal and non-fatal suicide attempts by the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS): systematic review and meta-analysis5
BJP volume 222 issue 5 Cover and Back matter5
Impact of puberty timing, status and oestradiol on psychotic experiences in the context of exposomic and genomic vulnerability to schizophrenia in female adolescents: longitudinal ABCD study5
Mental health and suicidal ideation from 2010 to 2023 among university students: national repeated cross-sectional analysis5
Examining burnout, work–life balance, relocation and financial stress among UK resident doctors and medical students5
Understanding electroconvulsive therapy: from historical practice to contemporary neurobiological models5
The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers By Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth Anthem Press. 2025. £120.00 (hb). 240 pp. ISBN 978-18399928654
What the suicides of women artists reveal about gendered suffering and expression - Psychiatry in literature4
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia4
Ten books4
To Sir William Gull – poem4
BJP volume 223 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
A psychiatrist’s best friend – Reflections4
War and the long-term psychiatric health of journalists who cover it4
Missing a trick? Bupropion for the pharmacological treatment of depression in the UK4
Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric in-patient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: retrospective multi-site cohort study4
BJP volume 223 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism: commentary, author response, Tromans et al4
Mental health at work: societal, economic and health imperatives align; it's time to act4
The cost of not speaking up: commentary, Naylor4
Kaleidoscope4
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
Social isolation and alcohol use: lessons from The Queen's Gambit – psychiatry in television4
BJP volume 224 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
BJP volume 228 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Effects of opioid antagonism on functional MRI correlates of explicit and implicit threat processing in healthy volunteers4
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Front matter4
Author's Reply. RE: Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study4
The drama of fulfilment: reflection on Walter Benjamin's ‘Fate and character’ (1921)4
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, 1939–2013 – Psychiatry in pictures4
Psychiatry and Human Nature: Classic and Romantic Perspectives By Gareth S. Owen. Cambridge University Press, 2025. £29.99 (pb). 210 pp. ISBN 978-1009212533 – ERRATUM4
Intrinsic connectivity networks during fear and safety learning in youth4
Mental health of heterosexual women married to homosexual men: a major but neglected issue: commentary, Dosani4
‘Whispers’ – Poem4
The aesthetics of Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930): an early progenitor of Art Brut – Psychiatry in art4
Increased risk of provisional premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) among females with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): cross-sectional survey study4
Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong By Stephen Unwin. Wildfire. 2025. £25(hb). 304 pp. ISBN 978-10354247334
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders4
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Prakash4
BJP volume 227 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and self-harm/suicide ideation: population-wide data linkage study and time series analysis4
The old psychiatrist at table – Poem4
Koro: Clinical and Historical Developments of the Culturally Defined Genital Retraction Disorder By Arabinda Narayan Chowdhury. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. £99.99 (hb). 518 pp. ISBN: 97830308796173
Alias Grace – Psychiatry in television3
Highlights of this issue3
Aftersun – Psychiatry in film3
Mind, State and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960–2010 Edited by George Ikkos and Nick Bouras. Cambridge University Press. 2021. £59.99 (hb). 406 pp. ISBN 978-1-93
Measuring the impact of therapy on medication use: data-linkage study3
Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency: The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet’s Future By Lynne Jones. Hurst Publishers. 2024. £20.00 (hb). 448 pp. ISBN 97819117230353
Cognitive-behavioural versus cognitive analytic guided self-help for mild-to-moderate anxiety: a pragmatic, randomised patient preference trial – CORRIGENDUM3
Author's reply. RE: Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists3
Cambridge Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy By Adam Polnay, Rhiannon Pugh, Victoria Barker, David Bell, Allan Beveridge, Adam Burley, Allyson Lumsden, C. Susan Mizen and Lauren Wilson. Cambridge Un3
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