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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Back matter155
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. By Adam Shatz. Apollo. International Edition. 2024. £19.57 (hb). 464 pp. ISBN 978-103590004671
Genes in context: path to more precise risk prediction in psychiatry?61
The garden of tomorrow – Reflection59
Premenstrual exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms: from misdiagnosis to management: commentary, Hudaib58
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis: commentary, Sethi and Hanif56
Phantasm and suicide – Psychiatry in movies55
The harming power of shame52
Prenatal exposure to benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and long-term risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring: nationwide cohort study50
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything By Gregory L. Murphy. MIT Press. 2024. £30.65 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 978-026254703145
Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes By Femi Oyebode Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 272 pp. ISBN 978110871677243
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Shergill et al43
Methylphenidate for prison inmates with ADHD: yes or no?37
The illumination of dreams: André Breton's (1896–1966) Les vases communicants – psychiatry in literature36
Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding By Peter Tyrer and Roger Mulder Cambridge University Press. 2022 £29.99 (pb). 172 pp. ISBN: 978110894837136
Biomarkers of reproductive psychiatric disorders35
Functional and effective connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks underlying subclinical binge eating35
Medication and atypical brain maturation in psychosis associated with long-term cognitive decline and symptom progression34
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 ide33
The effects of collaborative care versus consultation liaison for anxiety disorders and depression in Denmark: two randomised controlled trials33
Association of volatile substance, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrate use with mental health in UK adolescents32
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review30
The Ghost in the Addict. By Shepard Siegel. The MIT Press. £33 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN 9780262547970.30
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics By Ernesto Londoño. Orion Spring. May 2024. £15.29 (pb). 320 pp. ISBN 978-139871405230
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 arts27
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 978-1835010150.25
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.25
Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis25
From autism to the plural ‘autisms’: evidence from differing aetiologies, developmental trajectories and symptom intensity combinations24
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Front matter24
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 978-18000886024
Devouring the self: from Erysichthon to modern autophagia – Psychiatry in literature23
Self-harm in children and young people who die by suicide: UK-wide consecutive case series23
Prediction of suicidal behaviour as a three-body problem23
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 Hub23
Neurocognitive skills and vulnerability for psychosis in depression and across the psychotic spectrum: findings from the PRONIA Consortium22
‘Fair and balanced?’: quality of suicide-related reporting on major US cable news networks22
Real-world studies in psychiatry: insights into antipsychotic-associated breast cancer risk and their broader implications22
Risk of self-harm and suicide associated with the use of opioid analgesics22
Exploring the cortisol awakening response in premenstrual dysphoric disorder and in healthy females across the menstrual cycle – ERRATUM21
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach21
Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding: relationship to peripheral blood DNA methylation, recent life stress and childhood adversity in unmedicated major depression21
Participatory translational science of neurodivergence: model for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism research21
Moderators of antidepressant augmentation versus switch in the OPTIMUM randomised controlled trial21
An indescribable suffering – Reflections21
Looking for valid markers of anxiety20
Post-traumatic stress disorder rates in trauma-exposed children and adolescents: updated three-level meta-analysis19
BJP volume 223 issue 3 Cover and Back matter19
BJP volume 222 issue 4 Cover and Back matter19
When the future escapes: study of the sense of control in predictions about the future over time after exposure to a traumatic event18
Bethlem Royal Hospital at Monks’ Orchard, Beckenham – Psychiatry in pictures18
Dysphoria in contemporary psychiatry: forgotten affective state in need of diagnostic recognition18
BJP volume 224 issue 1 Cover and Back matter18
Kaleidoscope18
Highlights of this issue16
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Pelosi16
Reascending the magic mountain: Thomas Mann's Dr Krokowski and modern psychiatry – psychiatry in history16
In Beckett's words, by Beckett's thoughts: a narrative on ageing16
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
Kaleidoscope16
Attitudes towards mental health professionals in social media: infodemiology study: commentary, Shahbaz et al15
Why psychiatry needs ethnography15
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.15
Engaging the next generation of psychiatrists for geriatric psychiatry: call for action on behalf of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry15
Criminal sanctions for suicidality in the 21st Century UK14
Association of cannabis, cannabidiol and synthetic cannabinoid use with mental health in UK adolescents14
A clinician’s guide to probabilistic suicide risk prediction tools13
Psychotherapists versus artificial intelligence: let’s not raise the white flag13
Can critical components of effective early intervention in psychosis also advance early detection and preventive care for young people at risk?13
Altered prefrontal effective connectivity during emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder13
New directions for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: towards an EPDS-R (revised)13
Investing in mental health: a path to economic growth through psychological therapies12
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)12
Systematic review of the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for improving quality of life of people with dementia12
Bipolar villanelle and Lithium – Extra poems11
Improving dementia prognostication in cognitively normal older adults: conventional versus novel approaches to modelling risk associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms11
Impact of anxiety and depression across childhood and adolescence on adverse outcomes in young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study11
Kaleidoscope11
BJP volume 223 issue 1 Cover and Back matter11
BJP volume 226 issue 4 Cover and Front matter11
Scaling up mental health interventions for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: evidence for integration into differentiated service delivery programmes11
Algorithmic fairness in precision psychiatry: analysis of prediction models in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis11
BJP volume 225 issue 4 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 al10
Investigating whether offshore immigration detention and processing are associated with an increased likelihood of psychological disorders10
Jamais Vu - Poem10
Stigma and the pejorative use of disabling conditions10
Camouflaging in ADHD: the need for construct validation before clinical adoption10
Peer support and the performative turn: when lived experience risks losing its radicality10
Thirty-year outcome of anorexia nervosa: healthcare use and disability10
Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples10
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: 978-032379680410
Neurosteroids and premenstrual dysphoric disorder10
Severe mental illness, race/ethnicity, multimorbidity and mortality following COVID-19 infection: nationally representative cohort study – ADDENDUM10
The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature By Allan Schore. W.W. Norton & Co. 2025. £34.00 (hb). 512 pp. ISBN: 978-132408295810
Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study9
BJP volume 227 issue 3 Cover and Back matter9
Association between dietary fat intake and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: Mendelian randomisation study9
Mental health services in Ukraine during the early phases of the 2022 Russian invasion9
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion By Ema Sullivan-Bissett. Routledge. 2024. £186.79 (hb). 584pp. ISBN 978-10322833889
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 d9
Attitudes towards mental health professionals in social media: infodemiology study9
From physiology to pathology in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD8
Cognitive trajectories following onset of psychosis: a meta-analysis8
Grief in The Epic of Gilgamesh – psychiatry in literature8
BJP volume 225 issue 1 Cover and Front matter8
Hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit define eye movement biomarkers of anxiety disorders8
BJP volume 228 issue 5 Cover and Front matter8
'The medical self' – a student's perspective8
Associations of mental disorders in children with parents' subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark8
Association of hippocampal subfield volumes with prevalence, course and incidence of depressive symptoms: The Maastricht Study8
Kaleidoscope8
The phenomenology within Cézanne's work: a reflection – Psychiatry in art8
Methodological obstacles in studies linking hormonal contraception and depression7
Best interest and family compromise7
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Breen7
How to put psychiatrists back at the centre of medicine’s innovation7
BJP volume 228 issue 3 Cover and Back matter7
Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study7
Subversion of publishing comes to a boil: is it time to lance it?7
Silent scars: how armed conflict is traumatising Kashmir’s children, and the need for critical intervention7
Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes By David Enoch, Basant K. Puri & Hadrian Ball 5th edn. Routledge. 2021. £53.99 (pb). 304 pp. ISBN 97814987879567
Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis7
Anxiety and mood disorders in secondary care: commentary, Sathian7
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review7
Spirituality and Psychiatry (2nd edn) Edited by Christopher C.H. Cook and Andrew Powell. Cambridge University Press. 2022. £39.99 (pb). 418 pp. ISBN 97819116233047
Assisted dying for mental illness: commentary, Breen7
BJP volume 227 issue 4 Cover and Front matter7
Understanding the effects of a complex psychological intervention on symptoms of depression in Goa, India: findings from a causal mediation analysis7
Precision psychiatry: thinking beyond simple prediction models – enhancing causal predictions: commentary, Seyedsalehi et al6
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 trial6
GALENOS approach to triangulating evidence (GATE): transforming the landscape of psychiatric research6
BJP volume 223 issue 4 Cover and Back matter6
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and cognitive performance in mild cognitive impairment6
BJP volume 225 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Intervening early across the lifespan: going beyond youth-focused psychosis care to meet the needs of women6
Global, regional and national burden of depressive disorders and attributable risk factors, from 1990 to 2021: results from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study6
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 97819116239776
Clozapine initiation in a vacuum6
BJP volume 225 issue 1 Cover and Back matter6
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan By Timothy M. Yang Cornell University Press. 2021. £44 (hb). 354 pp. ISBN 97815017562526
Psychiatry in children's literature: guess how much I hate you – Extra6
Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of overspecialisation6
Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial6
Child maltreatment and telomere length in middle and older age: retrospective cohort study of 141 748 UK Biobank participants6
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 6 Cover and Back matter6
Climate change and mental health: overview of UK policy and regulatory frameworks to stimulate and inform future research and practice6
Hearing Spiritual Voices – Medieval Mystics, Meaning and Psychiatry By Christopher C.H. Cook. T & T Clark. 2023. £14.39 (pb). 152 pp. ISBN 9780567707970 – CORRIGENDUM5
Building a digital intervention to support young people with disordered mood and on the waiting list to optimise safety, acceptability and effectiveness5
The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism: commentary, McKinnon et al5
Mental health and suicidal ideation from 2010 to 2023 among university students: national repeated cross-sectional analysis5
Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression5
A network and thematic analysis of mental health-related Prevention of Future Death reports from 2013 to 2025 in England and Wales5
Advancing ketamine in the treatment hierarchy for refractory depression5
The usability and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future dementia risk in ageing UK adults: CORRIGENDUM5
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
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Kumari5
Antipsychotic therapy and suicide risk in patients with treatment-resistant depression: target trial emulation framework study5
The digital redesign of mental health: leveraging connected digital technologies for agency-driven patient-focused care5
BJP volume 228 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
Engaging the next generation of psychiatrists for geriatric psychiatry: call for action on behalf of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (EAGP): commentary, Oude Voshaar5
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, of 1749 – psychiatry in pictures5
Clozapine, relapse, and adverse events: a 10-year electronic cohort study in Canada: commentary: author response5
Reclaiming medical leadership: an imperative for psychiatry and psychiatrists5
The integrity of the research record: a mess so big and so deep and so tall5
Clozapine monitoring requirements: is it time for an update?5
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
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 al4
The Concept of Emotional Disorder By Gloria Sibson Ayob. Oxford University Press. 2024. £45.00 (pb). 240 pp. ISBN 978-01989096064
Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira: commentary4
Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study4
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, 1939–2013 – Psychiatry in pictures4
Psychiatric symptoms on the ovarian hormone roller-coaster4
Predictors of primary care psychological therapy outcomes for depression and anxiety in people living with dementia: evidence from national healthcare records in England4
BJP volume 222 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Author's Reply. RE: Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study4
What the suicides of women artists reveal about gendered suffering and expression - Psychiatry in literature4
Prediction of fatal and non-fatal suicide attempts by the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS): systematic review and meta-analysis4
Algorithmic dopamine economies: emerging psychiatric challenges in an artificial-intelligence-mediated attention ecology4
Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive–behavioural therapy delivery formats for obsessive–compulsive disorder: network meta-analysis4
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 97803352531734
Treatment with psychostimulants and atomoxetine in people with psychotic disorders: reassessing the risk of clinical deterioration in a real-world setting4
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics as a clinical characterisation dimension in the assessment of major depressive disorder4
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 study4
BJP volume 227 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
The old psychiatrist at table – Poem4
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Front matter4
Evaluating Computerised Assessment of Motor Imitation (CAMI) for identifying autism-specific difficulties not observed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or neurotypical development4
Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study: commentary, Udo et al4
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
The interface of autism and (borderline) personality disorder4
BJP volume 222 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
Latent profiles identified from psychological test data for people convicted of sexual offences in the UK4
Comorbid depression can compromise capacity: a consequential complication for assisted dying considerations4
BJP volume 220 issue 6 Cover and Back matter4
Mental health at work: societal, economic and health imperatives align; it's time to act4
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
The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers By Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth Anthem Press. 2025. £120.00 (hb). 240 pp. ISBN 978-18399928653
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders3
Kaleidoscope3
Occupational class suicide risk: 12-year study of national coronial data3
BJP volume 225 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Multidisciplinary consensus on prevention, screening and monitoring of clozapine-associated myocarditis and clozapine rechallenge after myocarditis: commentary, de Leon3
To Sir William Gull – poem3
Longitudinal trajectories in negative symptoms and changes in brain cortical thickness: 10-year follow-up study3
Cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep problems in psychosis: systematic review of effectiveness and acceptability – CORRIGENDUM3
Health-risk behaviours among people with severe mental ill health: understanding modifiable risk in the Closing the Gap Health Study3
‘Whispers’ – Poem3
The cost of not speaking up: commentary, Naylor3
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia3
Effects of opioid antagonism on functional MRI correlates of explicit and implicit threat processing in healthy volunteers3
Identifying genetic differences between bipolar disorder and major depression through multiple genome-wide association analyses3
Increased risk of provisional premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) among females with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): cross-sectional survey study3
Missing a trick? Bupropion for the pharmacological treatment of depression in the UK3
Social isolation and alcohol use: lessons from The Queen's Gambit – psychiatry in television3
Alias Grace – Psychiatry in television3
RE: Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists3
Psychiatry and Human Nature: Classic and Romantic Perspectives By Gareth S. Owen. Cambridge University Press, 2025. £29.99 (pb). 210 pp. ISBN 978-10092125333
The aesthetics of Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930): an early progenitor of Art Brut – Psychiatry in art3
Efficacy and tolerability of antidepressants in individuals suffering from physical conditions and depressive disorders: network meta-analysis3
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Highlights of this issue3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and self-harm/suicide ideation: population-wide data linkage study and time series analysis3
Trajectories and dimensional phenotypes of depressive symptoms throughout pregnancy and postpartum in relation to prior premenstrual symptoms3
Psychiatry and Human Nature: Classic and Romantic Perspectives By Gareth S. Owen. Cambridge University Press, 2025. £29.99 (pb). 210 pp. ISBN 978-1009212533 – ERRATUM3
BJP volume 228 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Increasing use of generative artificial intelligence by teenagers3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review3
Addressing disparities in eating disorders: underfunding, research gaps and clinical training deficiencies among males and men3
The drama of fulfilment: reflection on Walter Benjamin's ‘Fate and character’ (1921)3
Effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels on the internalising dimension as a transdiagnostic risk factor: Mendelian randomisation study3
Mental health homicide inquiries in England 2010–2023: review of methodology and findings3
BJP volume 220 issue 6 Cover and Front matter3
Mental health of heterosexual women married to homosexual men: a major but neglected issue: commentary, Dosani3
Baseline findings from the Longitudinal Outcomes of Gender Identity in Children (LOGIC) study3
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Prakash3
Common medical dilemmas, Franz Kafka version – Psychiatry in literature3
Ten books3
External validity of randomised clinical trials in psychiatry: borderline personality disorder as an example3
Adolescent consent and Generation Alpha: bridging policy, practice and empirical evidence in healthcare3
War and the long-term psychiatric health of journalists who cover it3
War and the long-term psychiatric health of journalists who cover it3
A psychiatrist’s best friend – Reflections3
Risk and protective factors against burnout increase during psychiatry training: evidence from a longitudinal multicentre controlled study3
BJP volume 223 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
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
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