{"title":"BJP volume 223 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.83","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85532953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery By David Harewood. Bluebird. 2022. £9.99 (pb). 256 pp. ISBN 9781529064179","authors":"F. Oyebode","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2022.188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74331625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness By Andrew Scull Allen Lane. 2022. £25 (hb). 512 pp. ISBN: 9780241509241","authors":"Stephen M. Lawrie","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2022.204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88099562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A call for action is such an old song that we can sing along in harmony, and nowhere is it stronger than in psychiatry. Mental disorders are common and costly. We need to change for the better. In their editorial, Cujipers et al (pp. 227–229) outline the important take-home messages from the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Report – another call for action – and urge us to galvanise our collective efforts. So how do we make a change? Take suicide, one of the priorities for change in the Report, as an example. Using the National Coronial Information System data in Australia, Burnett et al (pp. 234–240) investigate suicide rates by occupational class between 2007 and 2018. To me, the most striking finding of the study is not the occupational class suicide risk per se but the fact that the majority (83.4%) of 11 195 employed people who died of suicide were men. Surely, this is the inequality we need to address. How, then, do we prevent suicide? Can we eliminate suicide? The thought-provoking Analysis in this issue of BJPsych by Sjörstrand and Eyal (pp. 230–233) uses ethical principles to argue that aiming for zero may not be the best idea. The analysis reminds me of something that an emergency physician told me when I was an intern: ‘When someone dies of suicide, they kill themselves. The final decision to end the life is taken by the person who takes the life’. I remember feeling awfully uncomfortable with her statement, and I still do. Sjörstrand and Eyal argue that we ‘should fight the “fire” of social injustice instead of the “smoke” of suicide’. We do so by strengthening social and economic safety nets and extending universal access to healthcare and highquality mental health services. At the individual level, we should strive to identify psychosocial needs and offer person-centred care for psychiatric disorders and medical conditions. Yes, we are talking about good psychiatry practice, much like what is described in the WHO Mental Health Report (seamless prevention, mental health promotion and treatment services). One way to improve the quality of psychiatric care is to improve the way we evaluate our treatment options. A Mendelian randomisation study by Konzok et al (pp. 257–263) in this issue examines the bidirectional relationship between vitamin D and internalising disorders to find no evidence of any association. What is the Mendelian randomisation method? In essence, the method uses genetic variants to estimate causality unbiased by potential confounding factors. Unfortunately, the main downside of the study is that because the researchers used European data, the findings are not generalisable to a non-European like me. So, I continue to take my Vitamin D supplement every morning, still trying to figure out its benefit, wondering if this is an example of the significant gap between people in high-income countries and low-income countries that the WHO World Mental Health Report talks about. Another wa
{"title":"Highlights of this issue","authors":"S. Suetani","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"A call for action is such an old song that we can sing along in harmony, and nowhere is it stronger than in psychiatry. Mental disorders are common and costly. We need to change for the better. In their editorial, Cujipers et al (pp. 227–229) outline the important take-home messages from the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Report – another call for action – and urge us to galvanise our collective efforts. So how do we make a change? Take suicide, one of the priorities for change in the Report, as an example. Using the National Coronial Information System data in Australia, Burnett et al (pp. 234–240) investigate suicide rates by occupational class between 2007 and 2018. To me, the most striking finding of the study is not the occupational class suicide risk per se but the fact that the majority (83.4%) of 11 195 employed people who died of suicide were men. Surely, this is the inequality we need to address. How, then, do we prevent suicide? Can we eliminate suicide? The thought-provoking Analysis in this issue of BJPsych by Sjörstrand and Eyal (pp. 230–233) uses ethical principles to argue that aiming for zero may not be the best idea. The analysis reminds me of something that an emergency physician told me when I was an intern: ‘When someone dies of suicide, they kill themselves. The final decision to end the life is taken by the person who takes the life’. I remember feeling awfully uncomfortable with her statement, and I still do. Sjörstrand and Eyal argue that we ‘should fight the “fire” of social injustice instead of the “smoke” of suicide’. We do so by strengthening social and economic safety nets and extending universal access to healthcare and highquality mental health services. At the individual level, we should strive to identify psychosocial needs and offer person-centred care for psychiatric disorders and medical conditions. Yes, we are talking about good psychiatry practice, much like what is described in the WHO Mental Health Report (seamless prevention, mental health promotion and treatment services). One way to improve the quality of psychiatric care is to improve the way we evaluate our treatment options. A Mendelian randomisation study by Konzok et al (pp. 257–263) in this issue examines the bidirectional relationship between vitamin D and internalising disorders to find no evidence of any association. What is the Mendelian randomisation method? In essence, the method uses genetic variants to estimate causality unbiased by potential confounding factors. Unfortunately, the main downside of the study is that because the researchers used European data, the findings are not generalisable to a non-European like me. So, I continue to take my Vitamin D supplement every morning, still trying to figure out its benefit, wondering if this is an example of the significant gap between people in high-income countries and low-income countries that the WHO World Mental Health Report talks about. Another wa","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84813230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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 978-3-031-06055-7","authors":"Christopher C. H. Cook","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2022.176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73192337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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: 978-0323796804","authors":"A. Cavanna","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2022.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81718777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BJP volume 222 issue 6 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85546876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovations in Global Mental Health Edited by Samuel O. Okpaku Springer Nature. 2021. £549.99 (hb). 1612 pp. ISBN 9783030572952","authors":"O. Gureje","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77649418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BJP volume 222 issue 6 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77796958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes By Femi Oyebode Cambridge University Press. 2021. £34.99 (pb). 272 pp. ISBN 9781108716772","authors":"A. Sanati","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22495,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80566302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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