Sophie Davison

TL;DR: The therapeutic relationship remains paramount, and psychiatrists will need to acquire the necessary communication skills and cultural awareness to work optimally as patient demographics change, and psychiatry faces major challenges.

TL;DR: The PDQ-4+ appears to have the properties suitable for use as a screening instrument, particularly when screening for the presence or absence of personality disorder rather than for individual personality disorder categories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the principles involved in identifying the clinical problems and formulating a management plan for patients with personality disorder in order to identify the most challenging and sometimes controversial areas of psychiatry.

TL;DR: The relationship between mental disorder and violence is discussed, the different ways to prevent and manage violence are summarized and all the possible techniques for managing violent behaviour are reviewed.

TL;DR: It seems likely that imprisonment is a specific vulnerability factor for self-harm, one explanation being that it increases the risk of exposure to a contact with suicidal behaviour by others.