British Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal of Psychiatry is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. By Adam Shatz. Apollo. International Edition. 2024. £19.57 (hb). 464 pp. ISBN 978-103590004696
Genes in context: path to more precise risk prediction in psychiatry?88
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 ide79
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Back matter79
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review53
Biomarkers of reproductive psychiatric disorders43
The effects of collaborative care versus consultation liaison for anxiety disorders and depression in Denmark: two randomised controlled trials40
Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes By Femi Oyebode Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 272 pp. ISBN 978110871677240
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything By Gregory L. Murphy. MIT Press. 2024. £30.65 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 978-026254703140
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Shergill et al39
Light at the end of the tunnel: a front-line clinician's personal narrative on COVID-19 and mental illness – Reflection37
Methylphenidate for prison inmates with ADHD: yes or no?37
Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding By Peter Tyrer and Roger Mulder Cambridge University Press. 2022 £29.99 (pb). 172 pp. ISBN: 978110894837135
The garden of tomorrow – Reflection33
Phantasm and suicide – Psychiatry in movies33
The illumination of dreams: André Breton's (1896–1966) Les vases communicants – psychiatry in literature33
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis: commentary, Sethi and Hanif31
Functional and effective connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks underlying subclinical binge eating30
The Ghost in the Addict. By Shepard Siegel. The MIT Press. £33 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN 9780262547970.30
Premenstrual exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms: from misdiagnosis to management: commentary, Hudaib30
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Association of volatile substance, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrate use with mental health in UK adolescents30
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Neurocognitive skills and vulnerability for psychosis in depression and across the psychotic spectrum: findings from the PRONIA Consortium28
‘Fair and balanced?’: quality of suicide-related reporting on major US cable news networks28
Assessment of age-at-onset criterion for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder27
Self-harm in children and young people who die by suicide: UK-wide consecutive case series27
Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding: relationship to peripheral blood DNA methylation, recent life stress and childhood adversity in unmedicated major depression26
From autism to the plural ‘autisms’: evidence from differing aetiologies, developmental trajectories and symptom intensity combinations25
Prediction of suicidal behaviour as a three-body problem25
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach25
Real-world studies in psychiatry: insights into antipsychotic-associated breast cancer risk and their broader implications24
Post-traumatic stress disorder rates in trauma-exposed children and adolescents: updated three-level meta-analysis23
Thomas Hoccleve's Compleinte – psychiatry in literature22
Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis22
Provision of electroconvulsive therapy in Italy22
Apropos suicide verdicts: Lord Clifford strangled himself with his cravat in 1673? Beyond reasonable doubt versus the balance of probabilities – Psychiatry in the arts21
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 978-1835010150.21
Moderators of antidepressant augmentation versus switch in the OPTIMUM randomised controlled trial21
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.21
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics By Ernesto Londoño. Orion Spring. May 2024. £15.29 (pb). 320 pp. ISBN 978-139871405221
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Participatory translational science of neurodivergence: model for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism research20
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Algorithmic fairness in precision psychiatry: analysis of prediction models in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis19
When the future escapes: study of the sense of control in predictions about the future over time after exposure to a traumatic event19
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)19
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Systematic review of the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for improving quality of life of people with dementia19
Bethlem Royal Hospital at Monks’ Orchard, Beckenham – Psychiatry in pictures18
MHTRs – orders without any home18
Reascending the magic mountain: Thomas Mann's Dr Krokowski and modern psychiatry – psychiatry in history18
Kaleidoscope18
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Pelosi18
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art By Charlie English William Collins. 2021. £20.00 (hb). 336 pp. ISBN 978000829962018
Detailed clinical phenotyping and generalisability in prognostic models of functioning in at-risk populations18
In Beckett's words, by Beckett's thoughts: a narrative on ageing18
Kaleidoscope18
Why electroconvulsive therapy still carries a stigma17
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: 978-184188554417
The World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative: rights and recovery-oriented services should be at the centre not the margins of psychiatry17
Highlights of this issue17
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.17
Improving dementia prognostication in cognitively normal older adults: conventional versus novel approaches to modelling risk associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms16
Criminal sanctions for suicidality in the 21st Century UK16
Why psychiatry needs ethnography16
Association of cannabis, cannabidiol and synthetic cannabinoid use with mental health in UK adolescents16
Engaging the next generation of psychiatrists for geriatric psychiatry: call for action on behalf of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry16
Investing in mental health: a path to economic growth through psychological therapies16
Authors' reply15
Impact of anxiety and depression across childhood and adolescence on adverse outcomes in young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study15
Risk factors of postpartum depression and depressive symptoms: umbrella review of current evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies15
Kaleidoscope15
Severe mental illness, race/ethnicity, multimorbidity and mortality following COVID-19 infection: nationally representative cohort study – ADDENDUM14
Attitudes towards mental health professionals in social media: infodemiology study14
BJP volume 223 issue 1 Cover and Back matter14
Scaling up mental health interventions for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: evidence for integration into differentiated service delivery programmes14
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Neurosteroids and premenstrual dysphoric disorder13
Bipolar villanelle and Lithium – Extra poems13
Stigma and the pejorative use of disabling conditions13
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: 978-032379680413
Auschwitz: dreaming the nightmare of day – Dr Miklós Nyiszli (A-8450) – Extra13
BJP volume 226 issue 4 Cover and Front matter13
Kaleidoscope13
Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study13
Randomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of osmotic-release oral system methylphenidate on symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention deficit hyperactivity d12
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 al12
Association between dietary fat intake and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: Mendelian randomisation study12
Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples12
Associations of mental disorders in children with parents' subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark11
The Penrose hypothesis in the second half of the 20th century: investigating the relationship between psychiatric bed numbers and the prison population in England between 1960 and 2018–201911
Investigating whether offshore immigration detention and processing are associated with an increased likelihood of psychological disorders11
Mental health services in Ukraine during the early phases of the 2022 Russian invasion11
Highlight of this Issue10
Grief in The Epic of Gilgamesh – psychiatry in literature10
Association of hippocampal subfield volumes with prevalence, course and incidence of depressive symptoms: The Maastricht Study10
Kaleidoscope10
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Cognitive trajectories following onset of psychosis: a meta-analysis10
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'The medical self' – a student's perspective10
Understanding the effects of a complex psychological intervention on symptoms of depression in Goa, India: findings from a causal mediation analysis9
Methodological obstacles in studies linking hormonal contraception and depression9
Subversion of publishing comes to a boil: is it time to lance it?9
Intervening early across the lifespan: going beyond youth-focused psychosis care to meet the needs of women9
Real-world clinical and cost-effectiveness of community clozapine initiation: mirror cohort study9
Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial9
The phenomenology within Cézanne's work: a reflection – Psychiatry in art9
Child maltreatment and telomere length in middle and older age: retrospective cohort study of 141 748 UK Biobank participants9
Assisted dying for mental illness: commentary, Breen9
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis9
Silent scars: how armed conflict is traumatising Kashmir’s children, and the need for critical intervention9
Spirituality and Psychiatry (2nd edn) Edited by Christopher C.H. Cook and Andrew Powell. Cambridge University Press. 2022. £39.99 (pb). 418 pp. ISBN 97819116233049
Global, regional and national burden of depressive disorders and attributable risk factors, from 1990 to 2021: results from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study8
Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study8
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Breen8
Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of overspecialisation8
Psychiatry in children's literature: guess how much I hate you – Extra8
Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes By David Enoch, Basant K. Puri & Hadrian Ball 5th edn. Routledge. 2021. £53.99 (pb). 304 pp. ISBN 97814987879568
Classification of suicidal thoughts and behaviour in children: results from penalised logistic regression analyses in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study8
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan By Timothy M. Yang Cornell University Press. 2021. £44 (hb). 354 pp. ISBN 97815017562528
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
Hearing Spiritual Voices – Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry By Christopher C.H. Cook. T & T Clark. 2023. £14.39 (pb). 152 pp. ISBN 9780567707970 – CORRIGENDUM7
BJP volume 225 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
Predictors of primary care psychological therapy outcomes for depression and anxiety in people living with dementia: evidence from national healthcare records in England7
Climate change and mental health: overview of UK policy and regulatory frameworks to stimulate and inform future research and practice7
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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
BJP volume 223 issue 4 Cover and Back matter7
Lipid-modifying agents and risk of all-cause, natural and suicide mortality in schizophrenia: nationwide cohort study: commentary, Kuo et al6
BJP volume 225 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Clozapine monitoring requirements: is it time for an update?6
The interface of autism and (borderline) personality disorder6
Why Trieste matters6
The integrity of the research record: a mess so big and so deep and so tall6
Clozapine initiation in a vacuum6
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, of 1749 – psychiatry in pictures6
Clozapine, relapse, and adverse events: a 10-year electronic cohort study in Canada: commentary: author response6
Advancing ketamine in the treatment hierarchy for refractory depression6
Evaluating Computerised Assessment of Motor Imitation (CAMI) for identifying autism-specific difficulties not observed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or neurotypical development6
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
Latent profiles identified from psychological test data for people convicted of sexual offences in the UK6
Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression6
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
Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study: commentary, Udo et al6
The usability and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future dementia risk in ageing UK adults: CORRIGENDUM6
The digital redesign of mental health: leveraging connected digital technologies for agency-driven patient-focused care6
Antipsychotic therapy and suicide risk in patients with treatment-resistant depression: target trial emulation framework study6
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Kumari6
Prediction of individualised 6-month mortality risk in opioid use disorder5
Franco Basaglia (1924–1980): the reformer of the Italian psychiatric system – Psychiatry in history5
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
BJP volume 220 issue 6 Cover and Back matter5
Missing a trick? Bupropion for the pharmacological treatment of depression in the UK5
Predicting relapse or recurrence of depression: systematic review of prognostic models5
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 al5
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and cognitive performance in mild cognitive impairment5
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Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study5
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics as a clinical characterisation dimension in the assessment of major depressive disorder5
Psychiatric symptoms on the ovarian hormone roller-coaster5
Treatment with psychostimulants and atomoxetine in people with psychotic disorders: reassessing the risk of clinical deterioration in a real-world setting5
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Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, 1939–2013 – Psychiatry in pictures4
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders4
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
Author's Reply. RE: Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study4
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
Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira: commentary4
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and self-harm/suicide ideation: population-wide data linkage study and time series analysis4
Mental health at work: societal, economic and health imperatives align; it's time to act4
Increased risk of provisional premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) among females with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): cross-sectional survey study4
Latent subtypes of manic and/or irritable episode symptoms in two population-based cohorts – ERRATUM4
Cannabinoids in psychiatry: they are here to stay4
The old psychiatrist at table – Poem4
Deep learning identifies robust gender differences in functional brain organization and their dissociable links to clinical symptoms in autism4
Effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels on the internalising dimension as a transdiagnostic risk factor: Mendelian randomisation study3
To Sir William Gull – poem3
The impact of shielding during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing3
Social isolation and alcohol use: lessons from The Queen's Gambit – psychiatry in television3
Mental health of heterosexual women married to homosexual men: a major but neglected issue: commentary, Dosani3
Kaleidoscope3
Longitudinal trajectories in negative symptoms and changes in brain cortical thickness: 10-year follow-up study3
Mental health homicide inquiries in England 2010–2023: review of methodology and findings3
Identifying genetic differences between bipolar disorder and major depression through multiple genome-wide association analyses3
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
The aesthetics of Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930): an early progenitor of Art Brut – Psychiatry in art3
BJP volume 224 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review3
BJP volume 223 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Kaleidoscope3
Ten books3
Trajectories and dimensional phenotypes of depressive symptoms throughout pregnancy and postpartum in relation to prior premenstrual symptoms3
Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility: presenting features and outcomes, UK pharmacovigilance reports, 1992–20173
Triple-network model–based graph theory analysis of the effectiveness of low-dose ketamine in patients with treatment-resistant depression: two resting-state functional MRI clinical trials3
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Prakash3
Pre-pandemic mental health and disruptions to healthcare, economic and housing outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 12 UK longitudinal studies3
‘Whispers’ – Poem3
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia3
Efficacy and tolerability of antidepressants in individuals suffering from physical conditions and depressive disorders: network meta-analysis3
Addressing disparities in eating disorders: underfunding, research gaps and clinical training deficiencies among males and men3
Association of cognitive reserve with the risk of dementia in the UK Biobank: role of polygenic factors2
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Modelling mood updating: a proof of principle study2
Examining the needs, outcomes and current treatment pathways of 2461 people with treatment-resistant depression: mixed-methods study2
Measuring the impact of therapy on medication use: data-linkage study2
The usability and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future dementia risk in ageing UK adults2
BJP volume 220 issue 6 Cover and Front matter2
The problem with mental health awareness2
LGI1-antibody encephalitis: how to approach this highly treatable dementia mimic in memory and mental health services2
RE: Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists2
Examining what works for whom and how in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression: moderated-mediation analysis in the PREVENT trial2
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 Un2
Authors' reply2
BJP volume 225 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological functioning among women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: population-based study: commentary, Zancheta et al2
May we have your attention, please? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder2
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The DEPRE’5 study: pragmatic, multicentre, five-arm, parallel-group randomised controlled trial with blinded assessment to compare treatment strategies in major depression after a failed selective ser2
Reconceptualising the treatment gap for common mental disorders: a fork in the road for global mental health?2
Protecting and promoting editorial independence2
Consistent evidence that brain serotonin 2A receptor binding is positively associated with personality-based risk markers of depression2
Alias Grace – Psychiatry in television2
Occupational class suicide risk: 12-year study of national coronial data2
Highlights of this issue2
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 978-1-92
Author's reply. RE: Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists2
Real-world effects of antidepressants for depressive disorder in primary care: population-based cohort study2
Protecting and promoting editorial independence – CORRIGENDUM2
Highlights of this issue2
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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 97819117230352
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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: 97830308796172
Truthful communication of mental science: pledge to our patients and profession2
Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives Edited by Mikkel Borsch-Jacobsen. Reaktion Books Ltd. 2021. £20.00 (hb). 304 pp. ISBN: 978-17891445502
Kaleidoscope2
Cognitive-behavioural versus cognitive analytic guided self-help for mild-to-moderate anxiety: a pragmatic, randomised patient preference trial – CORRIGENDUM2
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Health-risk behaviours among people with severe mental ill health: understanding modifiable risk in the Closing the Gap Health Study2
Aftersun – Psychiatry in film2
Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence – Psychiatry in music2
Use of cognitive remediation to treat negative symptoms in schizophrenia: is it time yet?2
Delusions as 'wrong beliefs': a conceptual history: commentary, Ghalib2
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