Australasian Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Australasian 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
New Fellows106
Psychiatrists and general practitioners perspectives on sexual wellbeing: Why it matters?32
The Thought Broadcast - An Interview with Malcolm Forbes: “Systematic Reviews for Scholarly Success.”25
A case report of POL3A leukodystrophy presenting with first episode psychosis20
Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory20
A pioneer in the management of Australian psychiatric services: Dr Richard Greenup (1803–1866)19
New Fellows17
Battling the tyranny of distance: Mental health in regional, rural, and remote Australia17
Beef: The unbearable weight of expectation17
A survey of the psychiatric care provided for children and young people in general hospital settings in New Zealand15
From the President13
Violence and nicotine replacement therapy in a high dependency mental health unit12
New Fellows12
New injectable antiretroviral therapy for HIV facilitates novel treatment pathways for persons without capacity to consent to medical treatment12
Working with palliative care physicians to prepare for voluntary assisted dying legislation11
From the President (Australasian Psychiatry October 2025)11
Different oceans; common challenges11
The Thought Broadcast – Introducing New Voices Dr Ashna Basu and Dr Ed Miller: “Thought Insertions”10
Whose rural? Shaping rural psychiatry training in Aotearoa New Zealand10
In defence of the Royal College10
A qualitative study of clinicians’ perspectives on reasons for delays in clozapine initiation10
Cosmetic psychiatry: A concept in urgent need of consideration10
Maternal Depression and Early Parenting: A Comparison Between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Australian born Mothers10
Managing borderline personality disorder within the NDIS: challenges and opportunities9
Obituary: Dr Vance Denzil Tottman – 1936 – 20229
Respectful scientific debate in Australasian Psychiatry9
Doctors’ health: Is there reason to hope?9
Addressing the misconceptions in gender-affirming care: Response to Amos (2024)9
Bridging public and private health services to best meet the cardiometabolic needs of people with severe mental illness: a retrospective cohort study9
Evaluation of a rapid response, brief, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) intervention, for young people who presented to hospitals with acute mental health concerns8
Subclinical hypothyroidism and metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis8
Does youth-friendly mental health care improve therapeutic engagement and psychosocial outcomes?8
Book review: Of boys and men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it ReevesRV. Of boys and men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do ab8
Silencing psychiatry7
Australian community and inpatient general public sector mental health services between 2017–18 and 2021–22: Relative stasis in bed capacity, increasing outpatient demand, and stunted expenditure7
Access to a dementia-friendly garden on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, falls and psychotropic medication use in residents of an aged care home in Melbourne, Australia7
Prevalence of mental disorders among older Australians: Contrasting evidence from the 2020–2021 National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing among men and women and the Health In Men Data Linkage Stu7
2022 Queensland Government Parliamentary inquiry into mental health services7
Dual jeopardy for Indian service users: Qualitative study of managing comorbid schizophrenia and diabetes mellitus7
Efficacy and recommendations for the delivery of telehealth psychotherapy for people with personality disorder7
Thanks to Reviewers7
Unpeeling the onion: Digital triage and monitoring of general practice, private psychiatry, and psychology7
Comment on “Online interest in ADHD predicts ADHD medication prescriptions in Australia from 2004 to 2023: A time-series analysis revealing COVID-19-related acceleration”7
A reflection on how the absence of a psychodynamic perspective may disadvantage gender care and decision-making7
Australian specialised mental healthcare labour shortages: Potential interventions for consideration and further research7
Rapid review and commentary on the clinical implications of the population mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia7
A survey of Australian psychiatrists’ and psychiatry trainees’ knowledge of and attitudes towards psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders6
Obituary – Dr John Strachan6
Framing the mind: Forensic psychiatry and the theft of the Mona Lisa6
Evaluation of consultation liaison psychiatry in Australian public hospitals (AU-CLS-1)6
Mother nature: Applicability to contemporary attachment styles6
Factors associated with length of stay in medium secure units: A realist review6
Reply to Chanen (2023) ‘bringing personality disorder in from the cold: Why personality disorder is a fundamental concern for youth mental health’6
Maintenance ECT treatment in New Zealand: Local and national data6
From the President6
Continuing professional development (CPD) – Feedback6
TMS for irritable depression? The need for a more rational approach6
Exploring the feasibility of perinatal interpersonal psychotherapy group for distressed women5
False start: Non-compliance with Victoria’s new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act5
Diagnostic agreement and concordance between consultation-liaison psychiatry and non-psychiatric (medical and surgical) doctors: changes within junior doctor’s terms5
Lovers of Philosophy by Warren Ward5
Obituary: Ian Patrick (“Paddy”) Burges Watson5
Commentary on the private practice implications of the Deed of Settlement in the Honeysuckle Health – NIB Australian-Competition-Tribunal-hearing5
Persistence and adherence to second-generation antipsychotic long-acting injectable medications for schizophrenia: A comparative study in the Australian context5
How evidence-based is the “hashtag ADHD test” (#adhdtest). A cross-sectional content analysis of TikTok videos on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) screening5
Interventions for youth suicide and suicide-related behaviour: An update to a systematic review5
From the President5
The importance of appraising articles and conducting psychiatric journal clubs5
Ethnicity categorization in health research: Implications for mental health service delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand5
The corrosion of adult mental healthcare in Australia: Can we meet the needs of those who need the most?5
Cognitive remediation therapy – implementation and translation into clinical practice in rural and metropolitan New South Wales mental health services5
Essay topic – What is the role of psychiatry in recovery from severe trauma?5
Falling into an identity crisis: Integrating identity into the assessment and management of falls in older adults5
Merit, equity, and administrative competence in the retirement of the objective structured clinical exam4
The Thought Broadcast – An Interview with Skye Kinder: “No Taxation without Representation”4
Upcoming RANZCP conferences4
Book Review: rTMS treatment for depression. A practical guide4
Upcoming RANZCP conferences4
Australian healthcare workers experiences of peer support during COVID-19: Hand-n-Hand peer support4
The parable of the Therapeutic Goods Administration approval of esketamine (Spravato) in Australia4
Response to Treasure and Schmidt: joined-up care for youth-onset eating disorders4
Trends in access to clinical mental healthcare by very old people in Australia since ‘Better Access’ commenced in 20064
A six-session group-based pilot intervention for alcohol and other drug use in hospitalised mentally ill young offenders4
Psychiatrist supply and demand projections from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing – The map is not the territory4
Upcoming RANZCP conferences4
RANZCP elections: What becomes of the disengaged?4
Psychiatrist and trainee burnout: Commentary and recommendations on management4
Adolescent mental health presentations to a New Zealand emergency department: A 16-year retrospective observational study4
Introducing an integrated model of cross-cultural assessment4
Weaving the strands together for a stronger future: Responding to the mental health needs of Pacific children and young people4
A mindfulness-based cognitive therapy informed virtual psychiatry trainee wellbeing programme: Development and preliminary feedback4
Upcoming events4
Does fundamentally altering the staffing of clinical rehabilitation services impact their function?4
Final-year medical student Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine synchronous summative tele-assessments during a COVID-19 Delta-variant stay-at-home lockdown4
Brief intervention reduces prescription of sodium valproate in women of childbearing age4
Outcomes for pregnant women with Borderline Personality Disorder who attended a specialist antenatal service4
Creating a mental health talanoa to promote a collaborative approach to wellbeing across Pacific peoples4
The What and the How: A pilot study of feedback from service providers and consumers about service development in new urban mental health hub4
Experiences of transition from hospital to community living via the Pathways to Community Living Initiative: A qualitative evaluation study of service users and family members4
Three heads are better than one: Psychiatry trainees’ experiences of a psychotherapy written case supervision group with three co-supervisors4
Presidential address at RANZCP 2023 Congress4
Attitudes of South Australian psychiatrists towards attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults4
Clozapine-related tachycardia: A conundrum to identify and treat4
Australian healthcare is crippled by oppressive politicisation: Calling policy-makers and administrators to account4
Subacute voluntary care provision, what about Yalom?4
High parental self-efficacy and young adults’ reduced emotion dysregulation: A moderated mediating analysis from China4
Medicare Benefits Schedule item numbers for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Questions arising3
From the President3
2021 PIF essay competition explores the role of cultural intelligence in improving health outcomes for Indigenous peoples3
Deliberate foreign body ingestion in patients with underlying mental illness: A retrospective multicentre study3
Upcoming RANZCP Conferences3
Explicating the implicit: An Australian medical student’s reflection on the Perspectives of Psychiatry Program for International Learners (PoPPIL)3
Depression literacy in older Chinese people in New Zealand3
Book review: “The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology”3
Describing the burden of disease amongst inpatients with treatment resistant major depressive disorder in Australia3
Failures in care – The value we place on being human – Part 13
The Biopsychosocial Model and Psychiatry’s Integrity3
Coercive care in the 2020s: What is appropriate?3
A model of care for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder among adults in the community3
Management of the overdose of paliperidone 3-monthly injection: A case report3
Bioethical implications of cosmetic psychiatry: Distributive justice versus utilitarianism3
Quality control concerns in relation to lamotrigine and their impact3
Developing a culturally informed telepsychiatry competency framework for aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional survey and factor analysis3
Obituary – Dr John Stuart Johnston3
Pattern of emergency department presentations for deliberate self-harm at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: A cross-sectional study3
A review of placenta accreta spectrum and its outcomes for perinatal mental health3
Rapidly expanding gender-affirming care based on consensus instead of evidence justifies rigorous governance and transparency3
Relationship between perceived social support, mental adjustment to cancer, and depression among patients with breast cancer3
Upcoming RANZCP conferences3
More smoke and mirrors: Fifteen further reasons to doubt the effectiveness of headspace3
Obituary - Russell Ainslie Meares3
The gender-affirming model of care is competent, ethical medical practice3
What should psychiatrists advise their patients regarding COVID-19 protective measures and vaccination?3
The 30th anniversary of the code of ethics of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists–a worthy milestone3
Youth custody is no place for mentally ill children and young people3
Bloom’s taxonomy—Can evidence-based teaching improve junior medical officers’ knowledge of the mental health and guardianship acts?3
‘Who you gonna call?’ A qualitative study of psychiatrists accessing mental health services3
From the chemical imbalance to the power imbalance: A psychiatry trainee’s perspectives on service-user supervision3
RANZCP Foundation – Celebrating our third year3
Meeting the challenges of practising bio-psycho-social psychiatry – The exemplary contributions of Edwin Harari (OAM)3
Framing the future: Ensuring vulnerable island communities are engaged3
Remaining on course, online: Reflections and recommendations on more effective psychiatrist participation in online chat forums in the context of social media dynamics3
The case for the psychotherapy written case: A 21 st century argument3
Evaluation of a psychosocial group program for older adults: The Healthy Ageing Service Wellbeing Skills Group3
Reflection on the RANZCP position on the adverse effects of psychotherapy3
Mini editorial: The role of the trainee editor at Australasian Psychiatry3
Response to ‘Thinking clearly about climate change and mental health’3
“A service we know was missing”: bridging the gap between referral to admission for women with moderate-severe perinatal mental health disorders at an Australian psychiatric mother-baby unit3
New Fellows December ’23 – January ’243
Upcoming RANZCP conferences3
Experiences of violence among people with stimulant use disorder in psychiatric inpatient settings: A qualitative study3
A guided framework for assessing off-label medication use in psychiatry3
New Fellows3
Mapping the regional and remote specialised mental health workforce: Commentary on the AIHW data for 2022–20232
Trainee matters updates from Ava and Ed2
New Fellows2
An Evidence-Based Perspective on The 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines2
Is antipsychotic augmentation associated with improved functioning in patients on clozapine?2
Introduction of a homeless health outreach team in Northern New South Wales: is acute service usage reduced?2
What clinicians need to know about intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression?2
Improving human rights in mental health takes more than just changing the law: An audit of medical assessments in regional community patients in Queensland2
The uses and misuses of artificial intelligence in psychiatry: Promises and challenges2
Somatic symptoms associated with mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review2
Use of Medicare Benefit Scheme mental health services in young people who experienced self-harm and/or suicidal behaviours: Data from the Young Minds Matter survey2
Defining the passage of wisdom: A taxonomy of supervision for RANZCP trainees and Fellows2
Measuring the utility of brief psychological intervention in psychiatric hospitals: A call for change2
Advancing psychiatry trainee wellbeing and safety: Building on RANZCP Position Statement 482
New Fellows2
A curious case of COVID-19: A novel cause of psychosis2
From the President2
The child psychiatry pioneer who approached ADHD in a new way2
Practical psychiatry: Taking gaming seriously – a primer for psychiatrists on gamers and gaming culture2
American Psychiatric Association dynamic modelling of psychiatric bed shortages: Implications for frontline Australian trainees and public sector psychiatrists2
Characteristics and outcomes of consultation-liaison psychiatry referrals: A demographic and clinical analysis2
Gender diverse children deserve a good faith debate about gender-affirming care: Response to Cavve et al. (2024)2
Book review: Haidt, J. The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. UK: Allen Lane; 2024 Haidt J. The anxious generation: How th2
Forty years of research trends in long-acting injectable antipsychotics: A bibliometric analysis2
Modelling the rate of trainees transitioning to Fellowship before achieving competence under the RANZCP’s Alternative Assessment Pathway to the Objective Structured Clinical Examination2
Metabolic profiling of blood plasma in depression in pregnant women during early pregnancy2
The 2024-2025 Commonwealth Budget for Mental Health: Funding unproven initiatives and stings in the tail2
Science, ideology, and social progress2
Increasing hospital admission rates for anorexia nervosa amongst young women in Australia from 1998 to 20182
The parable of the TGA approval of esketamine (Spravato) in Australia: Part 2 - Submission for listing on the PBS2
New Fellows2
RANZCP 2023 congress in Perth2
New Fellows2
Hitting balls in the dark or taking air swings in the light? Response to Suetani and Parker2
Formulation in psychiatry – a guide to developing competence2
The Thought Broadcast: Introducing Australasian Psychiatry's Trainee and Early Career Group (libsyn.com)2
COVID-19 vaccination clinics within community mental health services: Strategies to boost uptake2
Effect of a mindfulness programme training on mental toughness and psychological well-being of female athletes2
From the CEO2
A clinical pathway for the management of people with borderline personality disorder in emergency departments must not include a ‘risk assessment’2
From the President2
How peer review groups support learning and wellbeing in psychiatrists2
Assisting physicians who exhibit disruptive behavior: Understanding the costs, contributors, and corrections2
Policy levers for the NSW psychiatrists’ workforce crisis: The implications of Perera’s supply-side policy feedback model2
From the President2
Measuring posttraumatic stress disorder following childbirth2
Obituary: Professor Barry Nurcombe AM2
New Fellows2
Being a ‘good’ doctor: Understanding and managing professional boundaries is challenging and can lead to stress and burnout2
Challenges and opportunities in the mental health landscape of the Maldives2
The Thought Broadcast – Discussion with The Thought Broadcast Team: ‘Lessons Learned’2
Obituary: Geoffrey Layton2
Headspace early intervention for psychosis in Australia: Is it still a ‘best buy’?2
Upcoming RANZCP conferences2
From the CEO2
Psychodynamic practice in psychiatry2
New Fellows2
Troubled Minds - A book review Troubled Minds - A book review2
From the CEO2
A longitudinal study of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline perioperative healthcare staff in an Australian tertiary public hospital2
National disability insurance scheme access: What evidence do you need to provide for psychosocial disability?2
Deprescribing antidepressants for depression – what is the evidence for and against?2
Over a decade of an eating disorders treatment program: Where to from here?2
A suicide in a Russian novel2
Success in the Psychotherapy Written Case Submission: An Interview with Korinne Northwood and Stephen Parker - Part 22
The Road not Taken – Conversations with an Intern, Part 12
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