British Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of British Journal of Psychiatry is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Light at the end of the tunnel: a front-line clinician's personal narrative on COVID-19 and mental illness – Reflection145
Ten books145
Highlights of this issue127
BJP volume 218 issue 5 Cover and Back matter69
Dr José Rizal (1861–1896) and the sociocultural aspects of mental health in the Philippines in the late 19th century – Psychiatry in history65
Manzoni and agoraphobia – Psychiatry in literature62
The lady of the house – psychiatry in literature59
Comment on: Neighbourhood greenness and depression among older adults: a risk assessment58
BJP volume 219 issue 3 Cover and Back matter55
Deep learning identifies robust gender differences in functional brain organization and their dissociable links to clinical symptoms in autism51
BJP volume 222 issue 3 Cover and Back matter47
BJP volume 219 issue 3 Cover and Front matter46
Kaleidoscope42
Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: a focused systematic review and meta-analysis37
Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis By Anthony Feinstein. John Hopkins University Press. 2022. £22.00 (hb). 256 pp. ISBN: 978-142144323234
Highlights of this issue32
BJP volume 222 issue 2 Cover and Back matter32
RE: Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists32
Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm By John Nichol. Simon & Schuster UK. 2021. £20 (hb). 496 pp. ISBN 978-147118052132
Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes By Femi Oyebode Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 272 pp. ISBN 978110871677230
BJP volume 222 issue 5 Cover and Back matter29
RE: Psychosis prediction 2.0: why child and adolescent mental health services should be a key focus for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder prevention research28
The illumination of dreams: André Breton's (1896–1966) Les vases communicants – psychiatry in literature28
BJP volume 219 issue 2 Cover and Back matter28
Functional and effective connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks underlying subclinical binge eating27
The garden of tomorrow – Reflection27
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 study26
Highlights of this issue26
Highlights of this issue26
William Hogarth's depiction of Bedlam – psychiatry in pictures26
Bethlem Royal Hospital at St George's Fields, Lambeth, 1815–1930 – Psychiatry in pictures26
Five points to consider when reading a translational machine-learning paper25
Highlights of this issue25
Mental health of heterosexual women married to homosexual men: a major but neglected issue25
BJP volume 223 issue 3 Cover and Front matter25
John/Eleanor Rykener: gender incongruence, December 1394 – Psychiatry in History24
Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry Edited by Ed Day 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 310 pp. ISBN 978191162319924
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Deahl23
Methylphenidate for prison inmates with ADHD: yes or no?23
Highlights of this issue22
Precision psychiatry: thinking beyond simple prediction models – enhancing causal predictions21
Seminars in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Edited by Rachel Thomasson, Elspeth Guthrie and Allan House. 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press. 2024. £39.99 (pb). 472 pp. ISBN 978191162354021
Mental Health and Human Rights: The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care By Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius. Springer. 2024. £121
Reading to Stay Alive: Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence By Christopher Dowrick Anthem Press. 2022. £80 (hb). 140 pp. ISBN 978178527891420
BJP volume 219 issue 1 Cover and Front matter20
Taming the Chimaera–Hydra: disconnecting from the net to fortify our mental health20
Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health Edited by Riadh Abed and Paul St John-Smith Cambridge University Press. 2022. £49.99 (hb). 338 pp. ISBN 978131651656019
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, 1939–2013 – Psychiatry in pictures19
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness By Suzanne O'Sullivan. Picador. 2021. £16.99 (pb). 336 pp. ISBN: 978152901055819
The impact of reduced routine community mental healthcare on people from minority ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives18
The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour Edited by Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott Pan Macmillan. 2022. £16.99 (hb). 336 pp. ISBN 978152908849618
The old psychiatrist at table – Poem18
Walter Benjamin: brooding and melancholia18
BJP volume 222 issue 4 Cover and Front matter17
Is psychosis a syndemic manifestation of historical and contemporary adversity? Findings from UK Biobank17
BJP volume 220 issue 6 Cover and Back matter17
Reflections on Franz Gall and phrenology – Psychiatry in history17
Highlights of this issue17
Profane illumination (or the Soul in Limbo): André Breton's Nadja (Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1928) – Psychiatry in Literature17
Aaron Temkin Beck – an appreciation – Reflection17
Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding By Peter Tyrer and Roger Mulder Cambridge University Press. 2022 £29.99 (pb). 172 pp. ISBN: 978110894837116
Highlights of this issue16
Author's Reply. RE: Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study16
New guidance for self-harm: an opportunity not to be missed: commentary, Mughal et al16
RE: ‘Shock tactics’, ethics and fear: an academic and personal perspective on the case against electroconvulsive therapy16
Cannabinoids in psychiatry: they are here to stay16
A simple gesture – reflection16
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Front matter15
BJP volume 221 issue 6 Cover and Back matter15
BJP volume 223 issue 5 Cover and Back matter14
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review14
Kaleidoscope14
Impact of early intervention on the population prevalence of common mental disorders: 20-year prospective study14
Eternal nightfall – Poem14
Phantasm and suicide – Psychiatry in movies14
Franz Nissl: psychiatrist and ‘Prinzenarzt’ to King Otto of Bavaria and his landmark discovery in 1899 – Psychiatry in history14
Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials13
Systematic review of risk factors for violence in psychosis: 10-year update13
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind Edited by Dasha Kiper. Profile Books. 2023. £13 (hb). 272 pp. ISBN180081619713
Genes in context: path to more precise risk prediction in psychiatry?13
BJP volume 224 issue 4 Cover and Back matter13
Antipsychotic continuation during pregnancy and risk of postpartum relapse in women with schizophrenia: nationwide register-based study13
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud. By Andrew Blauner. Princeton University Press. 2024. £20.49 (hb). 360 pp. ISBN 978-069124243912
The effects of collaborative care versus consultation liaison for anxiety disorders and depression in Denmark: two randomised controlled trials12
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. By Adam Shatz. Apollo. International Edition. 2024. £19.57 (hb). 464 pp. ISBN 978-103590004612
BJP volume 225 issue 6 Cover and Front matter12
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapies for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials12
Academic psychiatry is everyone's business12
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 978033525317312
Association of volatile substance, nitrous oxide and alkyl nitrate use with mental health in UK adolescents11
Pre-pandemic mental health and disruptions to healthcare, economic and housing outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 12 UK longitudinal studies11
Comorbidity between types of eating disorder and general medical conditions11
Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared with the general population: nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales11
Using polygenic scores and clinical data for bipolar disorder patient stratification and lithium response prediction: machine learning approach11
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and self-harm/suicide ideation: population-wide data linkage study and time series analysis11
The impact of shielding during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing11
Stigmatising views towards individuals with eating disorders: trends and associations from 1998 to 2008 using a repeated cross-sectional design11
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological functioning among women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: population-based study10
Securing the base: the need for attachment-informed interventions in the perinatal period10
SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and COVID-19 illness course and outcome in people with pre-existing neurodegenerative disorders: systematic review with frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses9
Mental health at work: societal, economic and health imperatives align; it's time to act9
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 al9
Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of over-specialisation: commentary, Downs9
Marijuana and Madness (3rd edn). Edited by Deepak D'Souza, David Castle and Sir Robin Murray. Cambridge University Press. 2023. £17.99 (pb). 353 pp. ISBN 978-1009305433.9
Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia: commentary, Shergill et al9
British contributions to the therapeutic use of John Cade's lithium9
From awareness to action: an urgent call to reduce mortality and improve outcomes in eating disorders9
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything By Gregory L. Murphy. MIT Press. 2024. £30.65 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN: 978-02625470319
Biological research on mental pain, social pain and other pains not primarily felt in the body: methodological systematic review9
Developing psychological treatments for psychosis8
Effect of ketamine on anxiety: findings from the Ketamine for Adult Depression Study8
Divinities of suicide in ancient mythologies – Psychiatry in sacred texts8
BJP volume 224 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
The conundrum of therapeutic intoxication8
The role of psychosis and clozapine load in excessive checking in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: longitudinal observational study8
Latent subtypes of manic and/or irritable episode symptoms in two population-based cohorts – ERRATUM8
Inside Out 2: the adolescent mind and the role of anxiety – Psychiatry in movies8
Pharmacological interventions for co-occurring psychopathology in people with borderline personality disorder: secondary analysis of the Cochrane systematic review with meta-analyses8
Cognitive trajectories following onset of psychosis: a meta-analysis – CORRIGENDUM8
Time-out under scrutiny: examining the relationships among the discipline strategy time-out, child well-being and attachment and exposure to adversity8
Anxiety disorders and age-related changes in physiology – ERRATUM8
Transient patterns of advanced brain ageing in female adolescents with anorexia nervosa7
LSD-assisted therapy in patients with anxiety: open-label prospective 12-month follow-up7
Groups 4 Health versus cognitive–behavioural therapy for depression and loneliness in young people: randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial with 12-month follow-up7
Schizophrenia: A Contemporary Introduction By Gillian Steggles. Routledge. 2024. £19.99 (pb). 146 pp. ISBN: 978-10325603807
Effect of non-suicidal self-injury on suicidal ideation: real-time monitoring study7
Video intervention to increase treatment-seeking by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: randomised controlled trial7
Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira: commentary7
Factors influencing self-harm thoughts and behaviours over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: longitudinal analysis of 49 324 adults7
Characterisation of age and polarity at onset in bipolar disorder7
Efficacy and safety of a 4-week course of repeated subcutaneous ketamine injections for treatment-resistant depression (KADS study): randomised double-blind active-controlled trial7
Letter to the editor about ‘Context and outcome of first-episode psychosis in India and Canada’6
Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease6
RE: Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study6
Clinical, societal and personal recovery in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across time: states and annual transitions6
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 ide6
Highlights of this issue6
Building youth and family resilience for better mental health: developing and testing a hybrid model of intervention in low- and middle-income countries6
A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking and Radical Enlightenment By Bruce E. Levine. AK Press. 2022. £17.00 (pb). 270 pp. ISBN6
Dosage effects of psychodynamic and schema therapy in people with comorbid depression and personality disorder: four-arm pragmatic randomised controlled trial: commentary, Mulder5
General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Prakash5
Letter to the Editor about ‘Mental health difficulties across childhood and mental health service use: findings from a longitudinal population-based study’5
BJP volume 219 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
‘Whispers’ – Poem5
BJP volume 224 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Highlights of this issue5
BJP volume 224 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
BJP volume 225 issue 5 Cover and Back matter5
Suicide and the Law By Elizabeth Wicks Hart Publishing. 2022. £85.00 (hb). 232 pp. ISBN 97815099327025
The Winter Soldier By Daniel Mason, Mantle (Pan Macmillan). 2018. £16.99 (hb), £8.99 (pb). 352 pp. ISBN 9780330458320 (hb) ISBN 9780330458337 (pb)5
Point of care assay for blood aripiprazole concentrations: development, validation and utility4
BJP volume 220 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
BJP volume 220 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
BJP volume 221 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Kaleidoscope4
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Front matter4
Apropos suicide verdicts: Lord Clifford strangled himself with his cravat in 1673? Beyond reasonable doubt versus the balance of probabilities – Psychiatry in the arts4
Kaleidoscope4
To Sir William Gull – poem4
BJP volume 221 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
The Beginner's Guide to Sanity: A Self-Help Book for People with Psychosis By Erica Crompton and Stephen Lawrie Hammersmith Health Books. 2020. £14.99 (pb). 160 pp. ISBN 97817816115554
Science of Life after Death By Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Marianna de Abreu Costa and Humberto Schubert Coelho Springer. 2022. £39.99 (pb). 101 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-06055-74
Effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels on the internalising dimension as a transdiagnostic risk factor: Mendelian randomisation study4
Highlights of this issue4
Thomas Hoccleve's Compleinte – psychiatry in literature4
Hypergraphia – Psychiatry in pictures4
Highlights of this issue4
Genes and screens: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the digital age4
BJP volume 226 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
BJP volume 221 issue 6 Cover and Front matter3
The zero suicide approach: style over substance3
Eating disorder service transitions: integrated models, knowledge gaps and opportunities, Ragnhildstveit et al3
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Malhi et al3
Childhood psychosocial adjustment and midlife obesity, diabetes and hypertension: prospective study from two birth cohorts3
Cost-effectiveness of ten commonly used antipsychotics in first-episode schizophrenia in the UK: economic evaluation based on a de novo discrete event simulation model3
Self-harm in children and young people who die by suicide: UK-wide consecutive case series3
Highlights of this issue3
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 978-1835010150.3
SMS-SOS: a randomised trial of the efficacy of a short message service (SMS) brief contact intervention in reducing repetition of hospital-treated self-harm: commentary, Prakash3
Saturn: star of melancholy – psychiatry in literature3
Dyce Sombre – Psychiatry in history3
Charles Arthur Mercier – Psychiatry in History3
BJP volume 225 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
Air pollutants, genetic susceptibility and the risk of schizophrenia: large prospective study3
Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies. By Richard Saville-Smith. Bloomsbury Academic. 2023. £76.50 (hb). 254 pp. ISBN 978-13502729103
BJP volume 224 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
The Ghost in the Addict. By Shepard Siegel. The MIT Press. £33 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN 9780262547970.3
BJP volume 218 issue 6 Cover and Front matter2
RE: Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point?2
Assessment of age-at-onset criterion for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder2
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness By Catherine Cho Bloomsbury. 2020. £16.99 (hb). 272 pp. ISBN 97815266190822
Sensibility and schizophrenia: Wilhelm Waiblinger on Friedrich Hölderlin's life, poetry and madness – psychiatry in literature2
Kaleidoscope2
Hugh Diamond, the father of psychiatric photography – psychiatry in pictures2
BJP volume 221 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Provision of electroconvulsive therapy in Italy2
BJP volume 220 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Mother and father depression symptoms and child emotional difficulties: a network model2
Predicting persistence of hallucinations from childhood to adolescence2
A brief critique of the pseudo-diagnosis ‘complex emotional needs’2
The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, and Dr Robert Gardiner Hill – psychiatry in pictures2
‘The state spoils them’ – psychiatry in literature2
BJP volume 223 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Social isolation and alcohol use: lessons from The Queen's Gambit – psychiatry in television2
Cost-effectiveness analysis of physical activity interventions for people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: systematic review2
RE: Extending the vulnerability-stress model of mental disorders: three-dimensional NPSR1 × environment × coping interaction study in anxiety2
Childhood trauma, perceived stress and anhedonia in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: multigroup mediation analysis2
Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding: relationship to peripheral blood DNA methylation, recent life stress and childhood adversity in unmedicated major depression2
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing By Horatio Clare Penguin Random House. 2021. £16.99 (hb). 352 pp. ISBN: 97817847435292
Correspondence2
A psych resident recovers from COVID – Extra2
The persecuted – psychiatry in pictures2
Suicidal thoughts and planning in the Book of Tobit – psychiatry in sacred texts2
Hans Rott: ‘Brahms had stored dynamite on board!’ – Psychiatry in music1
Longitudinal trajectories in negative symptoms and changes in brain cortical thickness: 10-year follow-up study1
Prediction of suicidal behaviour as a three-body problem1
Clozapine, relapse and adverse events: 10-year electronic cohort study in Canada: commentary, Kikuchi1
The experience of felt presence in a general population sample1
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach1
Fulfilling experience: Walter Benjamin – psychiatry in philosophy1
Breast cancer risk among women with schizophrenia and association with duration of antipsychotic use: population-based cohort study in South Korea1
Life expectancy and years of potential life lost in bipolar disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis – CORRIGENDUM1
I May Destroy You – an insight into living with post-traumatic stress disorder and recovery1
Decoding anxiety–impulsivity subtypes in preadolescent internalising disorders: findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study1
Data-driven clustering differentiates subtypes of major depressive disorder with distinct brain connectivity and symptom features1
Effect of frequent assessment of suicidal thinking on its incidence and severity: high-resolution real-time monitoring study1
Identifying genetic differences between bipolar disorder and major depression through multiple genome-wide association analyses1
Effect of nature on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents: meta-review1
Participatory translational science of neurodivergence: model for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism research1
Association between polypharmacy and depression relapse in individuals with comorbid depression and type 2 diabetes: a UK electronic health record study1
A psychiatrist on the cusp of independence: Owen Berkeley-Hill on how to nudge social change in India, Jain et al1
Personality disorders, violence and antisocial behaviour: updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis1
Psychopathology in Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Psychiatry in music1
Investigating mental healthcare inequalities associated with forced migration: promise and potential pitfalls of electronic health records1
Equal, equitable or exacerbating inequalities: patterns and predictors of social prescribing referrals in 160 128 UK patients1
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia1
Identification of specific genes involved in schizophrenia aetiology – what difference does it make?1
Prediction models in first-episode psychosis: systematic review and critical appraisal1
Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility: presenting features and outcomes, UK pharmacovigilance reports, 1992–20171
Effectiveness of medical treatment for bipolar disorder regarding suicide, self-harm and psychiatric hospital admission: between- and within-individual study on Danish national data1
Health-risk behaviours among people with severe mental ill health: understanding modifiable risk in the Closing the Gap Health Study1
Ten books1
The BJPsych journals: open for business and faster than a speeding bullet in advancing psychiatry internationally1
Towards personalised predictive psychiatry in clinical practice: an ethical perspective1
Sensitivity to light in bipolar disorder: implications for research and clinical practice1
Clozapine-induced myocarditis: electronic health register analysis of incidence, timing, clinical markers and diagnostic accuracy – ERRATUM1
How to classify antipsychotics: time to ditch dichotomies?1
The Accounts – Poem1
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.1
Rates of treatment-resistant schizophrenia from first-episode cohorts: systematic review and meta-analysis1
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