Australasian Psychiatry

Papers
(The TQCC of Australasian 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
New Fellows54
“On Suggestion” by John Bostock, 1923: A comparison with twenty-first century understandings of the placebo effect48
The Thought Broadcast 2: Start Early27
Book review: Promise unfulfilled: The life of Mary Barkas, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst27
Disneyland’s castle: A psychiatric history with relevance for modern practice?20
Beef: The unbearable weight of expectation19
Maternal Depression and Early Parenting: A Comparison Between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Australian born Mothers18
Treating PMDD with an oral contraceptive18
Maslow’s hammer: considering the perils of solutionism in mental healthcare and psychiatric practice16
Book Review: Great discoveries in psychiatry by Ronald Chase15
The effectiveness of a short-term DBT skills group in a ‘real-world’ clinical setting15
Experiences of violence among people with stimulant use disorder in psychiatric inpatient settings: A qualitative study14
Reply to Allison et al.: All-age eating disorder services14
Ask depressed patients about brain fog to ensure melancholia is not mist13
Establishing a COVID-positive mental health ward: an Australian-first case study12
A survey of the psychiatric care provided for medically ill older adults in general hospitals in New Zealand12
Book review: “The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology”12
Pursuing Early Career Success in Psychiatry: An Interview with Nathan Jacobs and Ashlea White11
Working with palliative care physicians to prepare for voluntary assisted dying legislation11
Burnout: modeling, measuring, and managing11
Psychiatry and gender equity: Creating change for our profession10
New injectable antiretroviral therapy for HIV facilitates novel treatment pathways for persons without capacity to consent to medical treatment9
Challenging flowers9
From the President9
The Thought Broadcast - An Interview with Malcolm Forbes: “Systematic Reviews for Scholarly Success.”9
The mental health of Australian medical practitioners during Covid-198
Safety over privacy: Family violence, information sharing and mental health care8
Management of the overdose of paliperidone 3-monthly injection: A case report8
Book Review: Emotional Female8
From the CEO8
Women have leadership advantages – on why that matters and how it may help us8
Integration of alcohol and drug nurses into a mental health unit7
Book Review: “Sink or Swim: A Memoir” by Saxby Pridmore7
Using a mobile application for psychiatry training in medical students: a quasi-experimental study7
Coercive care in the 2020s: What is appropriate?7
RANZCP Foundation – Celebrating our third year7
Battling the tyranny of distance: Mental health in regional, rural, and remote Australia7
Mitigating emotional responses to stressors: coping strategies, modifiers and support7
The ‘trauma’ of trauma-informed care7
Eating disorders in young people7
From the CEO7
Anorexia nervosa, weight restoration and biological siblings: Differences and similarities in clinical characteristics7
The Thought Broadcast – An interview with Jeremy Couper, Part 2: “Granny Flats, Boats, and a Block of Flats.”6
Examining long-acting injectable antipsychotic (depot) medication in the elderly: a five-year retrospective cross-sectional study evaluating depot use in an Australian psychogeriatric service6
Obituary – Associate Professor Peter Burnett6
Psychiatrists and general practitioners perspectives on sexual wellbeing: Why it matters?6
Upcoming RANZCP conferences6
Antipsychotic augmentation of clozapine6
2021 PIF essay competition explores the role of cultural intelligence in improving health outcomes for Indigenous peoples6
Youth custody is no place for mentally ill children and young people6
The impact of patient suicide on the psychiatrist6
Obituary: Associate Professor David John Ash (1951–2021)6
A longitudinal study of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline perioperative healthcare staff in an Australian tertiary public hospital5
Clinical update on psychiatric outcome measurement: what is the purpose, what is known and what should be done about it?5
Women of childbearing age and valproate: From inertia to window dressing5
What should psychiatrists advise their patients regarding COVID-19 protective measures and vaccination?5
The development of National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards5
Recommendations for psychiatrists regarding better access during the COVID-19 pandemic5
The gender-affirming model of care is incompatible with competent, ethical medical practice5
Psychiatrists should champion the care of those with severe mental illnesses experiencing climate change-related heat stress5
Perceived injustice: a historical and clinical review of a useful concept for psychiatry5
Prioritising a culturally safe e-Mental Health research agenda in Aotearoa New Zealand: A sector survey report5
Stigma in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry: A Qualitative Study of Trainee Psychiatrists5
Clinical psychology referral for individuals with auditory verbal hallucinations and schizophrenia: Therapy engagement, hallucination severity and distress5
The wounded healer: The history and implications of lived experience in mental health care5
Corrigendum to Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Dual diagnosis in rural Australia: A Victorian initiative5
A pioneer in the management of Australian psychiatric services: Dr Richard Greenup (1803–1866)5
Acute stress exposure in healthy oil and gas field workers and early post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms: A lesson from the COVID-19 crisis5
Not so creepy: A reflection on Jackson and Haslam’s article, ‘Ill-defined’5
New Fellows5
Upcoming RANZCP conferences5
Bullying within specialist medical training in Australia: Analysis of the medical training survey, 2020–20235
A case report of POL3A leukodystrophy presenting with first episode psychosis5
Remaining on course, online: Reflections and recommendations on more effective psychiatrist participation in online chat forums in the context of social media dynamics4
The mediating effect of resilience between work fatigue and psychological distress among healthcare workers in Brazil, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Serbia, and Tunisia4
Tertiary eating disorder services: is it time to integrate specialty care across the life span?4
Enhancing an online cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for depression: Harnessing the feedback of sexual and gender minority youth to help improve SPARX4
Essay topic - ‘A psychiatrist’s role in advocacy?’4
Clinical depression: the fault not in our stars?4
Upcoming RANZCP conferences4
Response to ‘Thinking clearly about climate change and mental health’4
Disillusionment amongst clinical staff experiencing repeated change4
Making it real: Actioning the mental health strategy with Pacific Island communities4
Information-seeking on pandemic health threats for persons with schizophrenia4
Psychosocial and lifestyle predictors of distress and well-being in people with mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Upcoming RANZCP Conferences4
Working towards success in the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Modified Essay Question Exam4
There’s no sugar-coating psychological distress and illness perceptions in gestational diabetes mellitus: depression and anxiety are associated with negative illness perceptions4
Difficulties in data harmonisation: An examination of Amos (2024)4
Violence and nicotine replacement therapy in a high dependency mental health unit4
The RANZCP Board rejects scrutiny of decisions that affect members4
Do benzodiazepines reduce the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation?4
‘Is hearing believing?’: A study of voices and beliefs in psychosis and trauma4
The importance of motivational postures to mental health regulators: Lessons for Victoria’s mental health system in reducing the use of force4
Taking a look back at Congress4
Government subsidies for GLP-1 agonists in mental health patients with metabolic syndrome: A call for quality-of-life improvement and cost reduction4
RANZCP member wellbeing: findings from our 2020 survey4
New Fellows4
Penumbra of the pandemic workplace for psychiatrists and trainees in Australia4
A clinical pathway for the management of people with borderline personality disorder in emergency departments must not include a ‘risk assessment’3
Dig deep psychiatry, it takes a village3
Order out of chaos? Autism spectrum disorder coordinators’ impact on service delivery in New Zealand3
Quantifying consultations to medical specialties during psychiatric inpatient admissions in a Queensland tertiary hospital3
Evaluation of the ED MHAOD Hub at St Vincent’s hospital3
A survey of the psychiatric care provided for children and young people in general hospital settings in New Zealand3
Failures in care – The value we place on being human – Part 13
Reflection on the RANZCP position on the adverse effects of psychotherapy3
Failures in care – The value we place on being human – Part 23
From the CEO3
Obituary - Russell Ainslie Meares3
From the President3
Obituary – Dr John Stuart Johnston3
Reckoning with rights: the Voice Referendum3
Telepsychiatry and face-to-face psychiatric consultations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: patients being heard and seen3
The NSW public psychiatric care crisis: For whom the bell tolls3
Improving quantification of anticholinergic burden using the Anticholinergic Effect on Cognition Scale – a healthcare improvement study in a geriatric ward setting3
Is there a missing-middle in Australian mental health care?3
Effect of a mindfulness programme training on mental toughness and psychological well-being of female athletes3
Deliberate foreign body ingestion in patients with underlying mental illness: A retrospective multicentre study3
Obituary – Dr Revindran (Revi) Nair3
Examining the role of psychiatrists in involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act in New Zealand3
A review of placenta accreta spectrum and its outcomes for perinatal mental health3
Different oceans; common challenges3
Outdoor mental healthcare: What, who, why and where to?3
New Fellows December ’23 – January ’243
Recommendations of the Queensland children’s gender service external evaluation and their implications for health policy in Australia3
New Fellows3
Silent reflections remain unheard3
Australian specialised mental healthcare labour shortages: Potential interventions for consideration and further research3
Drug overdose death rates in different countries: Who should be alarmed?3
Impact of long-acting buprenorphine injection on methamphetamine use: A retrospective cohort study3
A qualitative study of clinicians’ perspectives on reasons for delays in clozapine initiation3
‘Things are not what they seem to be’: A proposal for the spectrum approach to conspiracy beliefs3
Cosmetic psychiatry: A concept in urgent need of consideration3
New Fellows3
Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory3
Framing the future: Ensuring vulnerable island communities are engaged3
Gender-affirming care through the lens of abnormal illness behaviour and abnormal treatment behaviour3
The uptake and utility of a reflective practice group for psychiatry registrars in a state-wide forensic service3
Working alongside next of kin to enhance discharge: A quality improvement collaboration to co-design discharge for mental health patients3
Implications of the Cass Review for health policy governing gender medicine for Australian minors3
Improving services for those who serve: A private practice initiative to improve psychiatric care for first responder and military patients2
Reconsidering “Royal” – a natural progression2
ERRATUM to “Depression Literacy in Older Chinese People in New Zealand”2
Mental health of the Pacific Island Nation communities: What the rest in the world can contribute to and learn from?2
From the President2
Gender diverse children deserve a good faith debate about gender-affirming care: Response to Cavve et al. (2024)2
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
Release of position statements on principles for mental health systems and cultural safety2
Bringing personality disorder in from the cold: Why personality disorder is a fundamental concern for youth mental health2
Association between CRP levels and depressive mood among Korean adolescents2
Book review: Cynical therapies: Perspectives on the antitherapeutic nature of critical social justice2
Clinical update on public and private psychiatric practice shared-care partnerships – Can the twain work together?2
The Thought Broadcast – An Interview with Zoe Kristensen and Theo McTigue: A Case for Lived Experience2
Beyond burnout II: A case series of doctors seen in a new publicly funded doctors’ mental health service2
Stocktake of Australasian Psychiatry’s training resources2
Doctors’ health: Is there reason to hope?2
Re The prescription of psychedelic therapies in Australia and New Zealand: A brief survey of psychiatrists2
Book Review: Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self: Roads to Realization2
Closing the equity gap as we move to the elimination of seclusion: Early results from a national quality improvement project2
Book review: Desperate remedies – psychiatry’s turbulent quest to cure mental illness2
COVID-19 – vaccinating the mental health wards: attitudes and rapid actions amid the outbreak in Dubbo, August 20212
Bridging public and private health services to best meet the cardiometabolic needs of people with severe mental illness: a retrospective cohort study2
Electroconvulsive therapy in a patient with Arteriovenous Malformation2
RANZCP 2023 congress in Perth2
A reflection on how the absence of a psychodynamic perspective may disadvantage gender care and decision-making2
Climate change: A clear and present danger to mental health – Response to Amos (2023) ‘Thinking clearly about climate change and mental health’2
Subjective sleep disturbances across psychiatric illnesses—a transdiagnostic analysis2
Assen Jablensky and the history of psychiatry2
A Canadian case of ‘lifespan’ programming for people with eating disorders2
A clinical update on managed care implications for Australian psychiatric practice2
Psychotherapy electronic health record data of 33,000 breached in Finland: Tragically realised risks of harm to patients2
From the President2
New Fellows2
Any psychiatric assessment of a drowsy patient must be preliminary2
Winners of the 2023 PIF annual essay competition2
Unpeeling the onion: Digital triage and monitoring of general practice, private psychiatry, and psychology2
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, Australia2
Thinking clearly about climate change and mental health2
Respectful scientific debate in Australasian Psychiatry2
Free expression and open discourse in Australasian Psychiatry2
Hitting balls in the dark or taking air swings in the light? Response to Suetani and Parker2
Podcasts killed the radio star: A potted history of broadcasting in psychiatry2
Freudian robots: Artificial intelligence and psychodynamics2
Expert consensus on the operation of an adult tertiary intellectual disability mental health service in New South Wales, Australia2
Greatly increased Victorian outpatient private psychiatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic: new MBS-telehealth-item and face-to-face psychiatrist office-based services from April–September 20202
Time for a change to clozapine haematological monitoring2
G Vernon Davies: unsung pioneer of old age psychiatry in Victoria2
The socio-demographics and clinical profile of patients referred to the GP liaison psychiatry service within a metropolitan Aboriginal medical service2
An innovative Australian doctors’ health service: using systems therapy to work with individual medical leaders in an acute public health setting2
From the President2
Dig deep psychiatry, it takes a village2
Strangling the White Lotus: The dense psychodynamic roots of modern media2
RANZCP Congress 2022 presidential address2
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Australasia and ‘coup de grâce’ in Islam2
From the CEO2
Colleague Care – Implementing a staff peer support program2
Obituary: Dr James Stevenson (12 September 1934–21 January 2022)2
The Thought Broadcast: Introducing Australasian Psychiatry's Trainee and Early Career Group (libsyn.com)2
Evaluation of a mental health service reform program, the Pathways to Community Living Initiative, for people with severe mental illness and complex needs2
New laws that prohibit conversion therapy pose no material risk to evidence-based and clinically appropriate practice2
On RuPaul, drag race and mentalization2
Psychiatry, psychotherapy and the criminalisation of ‘conversion therapy’ in Australia2
The clinical use of dream content in modern psychiatry2
Moral injury and psychiatrists in public community mental health services2
Our Covid odyssey2
From the President2
From the President2
How peer review groups support learning and wellbeing in psychiatrists2
Increased referrals to an Australian Consultation Liaison Psychiatry service during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Psychodynamic practice in psychiatry2
The Thought Broadcast – Introducing New Voices Dr Ashna Basu and Dr Ed Miller: “Thought Insertions”2
The Pasifika Veilomani Project: a pilot online training programme for healthcare workers in managing gender-based violence and family violence and sharing experiences1
Risk factors for postpartum depression among sexual minority and heterosexual parents1
Somatic symptoms associated with mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review1
Deprescribing antidepressants for depression – what is the evidence for and against?1
Naturalistic outcomes of patients discharged from a community treatment order: QA project1
Mostly harmless? Clinical practice guidelines need further consideration of psychotherapy adverse effects1
Oxytocin in old age psychiatry: A systematic review of the safety of using intranasal oxytocin in older adults1
Challenges and opportunities in the mental health landscape of the Maldives1
Cognitive remediation therapy – implementation and translation into clinical practice in rural and metropolitan New South Wales mental health services1
Persistence and adherence to second-generation antipsychotic long-acting injectable medications for schizophrenia: A comparative study in the Australian context1
Policy levers for the NSW psychiatrists’ workforce crisis: The implications of Perera’s supply-side policy feedback model1
Future-proofing structural design of an acute mental health inpatient unit1
Increasing hospital admission rates for anorexia nervosa amongst young women in Australia from 1998 to 20181
Amphetamine use and psychiatric admissions: a 10-year perspective1
From the CEO1
School teachers: the forgotten frontline workers of Covid-191
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”1
Radicalisation in adolescents: mental health considerations for violent extremism1
Troubled Minds - A book review Troubled Minds - A book review1
From the President1
2022 PIF essay competition explores, ‘what is the role of psychiatry in recovery from severe trauma?’1
Interventions for youth suicide and suicide-related behaviour: An update to a systematic review1
Over a decade of an eating disorders treatment program: Where to from here?1
The travails of women with severe mental illness and pregnancy1
Top end perinatal mental health consultation service: evaluation of services, patient demographics and psychosocial contributors to mental ill-health1
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 Stu1
Position statements of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists: An historical perspective1
Kintsugi: Comprehensive repair of Australia’s fractured psychiatric care system1
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 expenditure1
Addressing the misconceptions in gender-affirming care: Response to Amos (2024)1
Exposing the primary failure of gender-affirming care: Response to Erasmus (2024)1
Will Rogers phenomenon and cosmetic psychiatry1
Ill-defined: Concepts of mental health and illness are becoming broader, looser, and more benign1
From the President1
Characterising variability in youth mental health service populations: A detailed and scalable approach using digital technology1
Continuing professional development (CPD) – Feedback1
Cross-sectional survey of smartphone addiction and its relationship with personality traits among medical students1
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