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The Royal College of Psychiatrists Improving the lives of people with mental illness

The Psychiatrist

Link to The Psychiatrist journal online version  

Frequency: Monthly

Circulation: 15,500 (all RCPsych members plus subscription base)

Editor: Dr Jonathan Pimm, Consultant in Primary Care Psychiatry, East London NHS Trust, Mile End Hospital.  Full Editorial Board

ISSN (Print): 1758-3209
Online version ISSN: 1758-3217

Audience: Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, especially those involved with service provision.

 

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The Psychiatrist focuses on psychiatric service provision by dealing with clinical issues that affect everyday practice, written in an accessible style for practising psychiatrists of all levels. Prominence is given to training in psychiatry (with many papers by trainees) and informed comment and debate on topical issues in current psychiatric practice. A selection of Editorial Board members from overseas and a good number of submissions from outside Britain ensure that The Psychiatrist has a global perspective and influences psychiatric practice internationally. Each issue includes several substantial original research papers.

  • Rigorous two-stage peer-review process for papers.
Regular features in The Psychiatrist include:
  • Editorials
  • Original papers
  • Education & training
  • Correspondence section
  • Obituaries
  • Book reviews
  • E-interviews

The Psychiatrist online has the following extra features :

  • E-letters section.
  • Full text archive dating back to 2000.
  • Full text (as PDFs) and contents lists archive dating back to the first ever issue in 1977.
  • More online features.

Please note this journal was formerly known as the Psychiatric Bulletin. It was relaunched in January 2010 as The Psychiatrist (and the ISSNs given above were new at that time).