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A tribute to autonomy and public mental health
No full textThis commentary examines the autonomy‐control argument in public mental health and how services have developed over the years from prejudiced asylums, to community‐based care. Peter Tyrer discusses how people with mental ill health, who have struggled to gain independence and autonomy of their lives, are finally enjoying their emancipation.</jats:p
Generalised anxiety disorder
No full textGeneralised anxiety disorder is a persistent and common disorder, in which the patient has unfocused worry and anxiety that is not connected to recent stressful events, although it can be aggravated by certain situations. This disorder is twice as common in women than it is in men. Generalised anxiety disorder is characterised by feelings of threat, restlessness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and tension, and symptoms such as palpitations, dry mouth, and sweating. These symptoms are recognised as part of the anxiety syndrome rather than independent complaints. The symptoms overlap greatly with those of other common mental disorders and we could regard the disorder as part of a spectrum of mood and related disorders rather than an independent disorder. Generalised anxiety disorder has a relapsing course, and intervention rarely results in complete resolution of symptoms, but in the short term and medium term, effective treatments include psychological therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy; self-help approaches based on cognitive behavioural, therapy principles; and pharmacological treatments, mainly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
The editor's dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries
No full textMost scientists are now aware of what has been called the 10:90 divide (Saxena et al, 2006): the fact that 90% of the published scientific activity in the world comes from the richest 10% of countries. Many would like to brush off this simple fact as unimportant, but at another level it could be regarded as a scandalous disequilibrium of the planet's resources. One small way of reversing this is for editors to publish more papers from low-income countries and counter what can be described somewhat strongly as editorial racism (Horton, 2003). We have tried to do so in the British Journal of Psychiatry (Tyrer, 2005); this paper describes some of the difficulties.</jats:p
Enhanced peer-review for optimising publication of biomedical papers submitted from low- and middle-income countries: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial – CORRIGENDUM
No full textIn the original publication of this article the article title and number were incorrectly stated. The correct citation details are as follows: Pitman A, Underwood R, Hamilton A, Tyrer P, Yang M. Enhanced peer-review for optimising publication of biomedical papers submitted from low- and middle-income countries: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. BJPsych Open 2019; 5(2): e20. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2018.89. This has now been updated in the original article online. The publisher and author sincerely apologise for these errors
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