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Overview

Allen Frances is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has a research focus rooted in psychology, particularly clinical psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including philosophy, public health, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics cover a range of issues, with main areas including:

  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Allen Frances has published in several academic venues, notably with multiple contributions to The Lancet Psychiatry. Other important publication venues include:

  • BMJ
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Frances illustrate engagement with complex psychiatric topics and mental health diagnosis, including:

  • "Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder: Considering relationship to the person who died and cause of death," 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "DSM-5-TR turns normal grief into a mental disorder," 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Psychiatric Diagnosis," 2024, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • "Save Trieste's mental health system," 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Prolonged grief disorder - Authors' reply," 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry

Their frequent co-authors include Joanne Cacciatore, Kara Thieleman, Peter Tyrer, Laura Batstra, and Awais Aftab, reflecting collaborative work across various aspects of psychiatry and clinical psychology.

Allen Frances has contributed to scholarly books, including a publication by Cambridge University Press titled Making Sense of the ICD-11 (2023).

Best Publications

  • Drug abuse in schizophrenic patients: clinical correlates and reasons for use.

    Lisa Dixon;Gretchen Haas;Peter J. Weiden;John Sweeney

  • Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

    Allen Frances

  • Prototypic typology and the Borderline Personality Disorder.

    John F. Clarkin;Thomas A. Widiger;Allen Frances;Stephen W. Hurt

  • Relapse and rehospitalization during maintenance treatment of schizophrenia. The effects of dose reduction and family treatment.

    Nina R. Schooler;Samuel J. Keith;Joanne B. Severe;Susan M. Matthews

  • Self-mutilation in personality disorders: psychological and biological correlates.

    Daphne Simeon;Barbara Stanley;Allen J. Frances;J. John Mann

  • Predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder after burn injury.

    Samuel W. Perry;JoAnn Difede;Gloria Musngi;Allen J. Frances

  • The expert consensus guideline series : treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

    Edna B. Foa;Jonathan R. T. Davidson;Allen Frances;Larry Culpepper

  • Rating of Medication Influences (ROMI) Scale in Schizophrenia

    Peter Weiden;Bruce Rapkin;Tasha Mott;Annette Zygmunt

  • Acute Effects of Drug Abuse in Schizophrenic Patients: Clinical Observations and Patients' Self-reports

    Lisa Dixon;Gretchen Haas;Peter Weiden;John A Sweeney

  • Toward a dimensional model for the personality disorders.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Allen J. Frances

  • Treatment of Depressive Symptoms in Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Positive Patients

    John C. Markowitz;James H. Kocsis;Baruch Fishman;Lisa A. Spielman

  • DSM-IV antisocial personality disorder field trial.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Remi Cadoret;Robert Hare;Lee Robins

  • The DSM-III personality disorders. Perspectives from psychology.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Allen Frances

  • Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lessons from the DSM-IV Past and Cautions for the DSM-5 Future

    Allen J. Frances;Thomas Widiger

  • The DSM-III personality disorders section: A commentary.

    Allen Frances

  • Clinical correlates of self-mutilation in borderline personality disorder

    Rebecca A. Dulit;Minna R. Fyer;Andrew C. Leon;Beth S. Brodsky

  • The DSM-III-R personality disorders: an overview

    Thomas A. Widiger;Allen Frances;Robert L. Spitzer;Janet B. Williams

  • Relationships over 1 year between lymphocyte subsets and psychosocial variables among adults with infection by human immunodeficiency virus.

    Samuel W. Perry;Baruch Fishman;Lawrence Jacobsberg;Allen J. Frances

  • Comorbidity of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Minna R. Fyer;Allen J. Frances;Timothy Sullivan;Stephen W. Hurt

  • Toward an empirical classification for the DSM-IV.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Allen J. Frances;Harold A. Pincus;Wendy W. Davis

  • Psychiatry update : American Psychiatric Association annual review

    Robert E. Hales;Allen Frances;Lester Grinspoon

  • Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

    Allen Frances

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Widiger
Thomas A. Widiger University of Kentucky
John F. Clarkin
John F. Clarkin Cornell University
J. John Mann
J. John Mann Columbia University
John A. Sweeney
John A. Sweeney University of Cincinnati
Stephen W. Hurt
Stephen W. Hurt Cornell University
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Carpenter
Daniel Carpenter Harvard University
M. Katherine Shear
M. Katherine Shear Columbia University
Lisa B. Dixon
Lisa B. Dixon Columbia University
Barbara Stanley
Barbara Stanley Columbia University

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