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Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(2), 469-470. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.91

Clearly, each patient brings unique issues to therapy, but there has been almost no research on allocating therapists based on complementing these. It's an interesting omission when we consider that the therapeutic relationship is an important factor... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(1), 411-412. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.67

There is little in mental health as controversial as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has a lot to answer for, but equally one can understand public caution about a technique involving anaesthesia and induced seizures.... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(6), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.51

In March, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) was placed on leave after a deputy editor's podcast downplayed structural racism in medicine and the journal tweeted ‘No physician is racist, so how can there be... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(5), 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.41

Women are not just small men. Last year, Caroline Criado Perez alerted the public to the very real dangers of male-centred bias in her bestselling book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. She laid bare that the male-as-de... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(4), 235-236. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.23

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) post-mortem will take years. Causes of variations in national mortality rates will be a prime target, and at the time of writing, the UK, unfortunately, has a sad record of the highest death rate per capita in... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(3), 177-178. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.6

How has the covid-19 pandemic affected individuals with pre-existing mental illnesses? An estimated 200 000 scientific papers on covid-19 had been published by December 2020,Reference Else1 but some studies were clearly more important and better desi... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2 (2021)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(2), 123-124. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.254

There has been a welcome growth in cross-disciplinary research integrating social, cultural and community engagement (SCCE) to positively have an impact on mental health. The advantages are both gains in enhancing well-being and improving mental heal... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(1), 69-70. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.239

Predicting future suicide attempts is a challenging area for psychiatrists. Even well-established individual risk factors tend to be quite weak predictors, and most assessment tools have been shown to add little or no value to a comprehensive clinica... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2020). Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217(6), 731-732. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.217

Individuals with dementia seek intimacy and companionship just like everyone else, but in the face of cognitive decline there are inevitably concerns about their vulnerability. It is an issue often perceived through the prism of safeguarding against... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2020). Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217(5), 657-658. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.186

Among the criticisms of diagnostic systems is ‘diagnostic inflation’: with time criteria relax, the number of conditions expands and everything is pathologised. It is a common refrain, with the release of DSM-5 attracting particular notoriety. But, i... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 4 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2020). Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 4. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217(4), 593-594. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.155

As part of the core content of this monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent mental health research

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2020). Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217(3), 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.145

We're all familiar with the mantra that while self-harm is common, suicide is ‘rare’ and prediction ‘difficult’. Can we at least have confidence in suicide-prevention interventions? A meta-analysis examined subsequent suicide attempts following a bri... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2 (2020)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2020). Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217(2), 465-466. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.132

Perceptions 1. #BlackLivesMatter has reinforced the depth of societal inequities; minority ethnic status is linked with psychosis, but disentangling discrimination from other factors is challenging. Bardol et al included 17 studies (n = 33 211) in th... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 215 Issue 1 (2019)
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Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2019). Kaleidoscope - Volume 215 Issue 1. British Journal of Psychiatry, 215(1), 441-442. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.136

Part of the core content of the monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent research in mental health.