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Peter Kinderman is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Health Professions, focusing on multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Health.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Among Peter Kinderman's recent papers are:

  • "The impact of childhood socioeconomic status on depression and anxiety in adult life: Testing the accumulation, critical period and social mobility hypotheses" (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • "Psychology and Human Rights" (2022, Clinical Psychology Forum)
  • "Politicians, experts, and patient representatives call for the UK government to reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing" (2023, BMJ)
  • "How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers" (2020, History of Psychiatry)
  • "A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis Comparing the Constructs of Social Determinants of Health and Social Determinants of Mental Health: Matryoshka or Two Independent Constructs?" (2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry)

They have frequently published work in the following venues:

  • Journal of Mental Health (3 publications)
  • SSM - Population Health (2 publications)
  • Clinical Psychology Forum (2 publications)
  • History of Psychiatry (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (2 publications)

Peter Kinderman has collaborated regularly with co-authors such as Fritz Handerer, Sara Tai, Karyn Morrissey, James Davies, and John Read. These collaborations reflect ongoing engagement with experts across related fields.

Best Publications

  • Persecutory delusions: a review and theoretical integration.

    Richard P. Bentall;Rhiannon Corcoran;Robert Howard;Nigel Blackwood

  • The self, attributional processes and abnormal beliefs: towards a model of persecutory delusions.

    Richard P. Bentall;Peter Kinderman;Sue Kaney

  • Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe and recurrent bipolar disorders: randomised controlled trial.

    Jan Scott;Eugene Paykel;Richard Morriss;Richard Bentall

  • The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bryony Sheaves;Bryony Sheaves;Guy M Goodwin;Guy M Goodwin;Ly-Mee Yu

  • Theory-of-mind deficits and causal attributions

    Peter Kinderman;Robin Dunbar;Richard P. Bentall

  • Randomised controlled trial of cognitive-behavioural therapy in early schizophrenia: acute-phase outcomes.

    Shôn Lewis;Nicholas Tarrier;Gillian Haddock;Richard Bentall

  • Causal attributions in paranoia and depression: Internal, personal, and situational attributions for negative events.

    Peter Kinderman;Richard P. Bentall

  • The cognitive and affective structure of paranoid delusions: a transdiagnostic investigation of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and depression.

    Richard P. Bentall;Georgina Rowse;Nick Shryane;Peter Kinderman

  • A new measure of causal locus: the internal, personal and situational attributions questionnaire

    Peter Kinderman;Richard P. Bentall

  • Cognitive-behavioural therapy in first-episode and early schizophrenia: 18-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

    Nicholas Tarrier;Shôn Lewis;Gillian Haddock;Richard Bentall

  • Self-discrepancies and persecutory delusions : Evidence for a model of paranoid ideation

    Peter Kinderman;Richard P. Bentall

  • Heterogeneity in psychiatric diagnostic classification

    Kate Allsopp;Kate Allsopp;John Read;Rhiannon Corcoran;Peter Kinderman

  • The evolution of insight, paranoia and depression during early schizophrenia

    Richard Drake;Andrew Pickles;Richard Bentall;P. Kinderman

  • Trends in mental health inequalities in England during a period of recession, austerity and welfare reform 2004 to 2013.

    Benjamin Barr;Peter Kinderman;Margaret Whitehead

  • A psychological model of mental disorder.

    Peter Kinderman

  • Theory of Mind, Causal Attribution and Paranoia in Asperger Syndrome:

    Alison J. Blackshaw;Peter Kinderman;Dougal J. Hare;Chris Hatton

  • Attentional bias, persecutory delusions and the self-concept

    Peter Kinderman

  • Self-discrepancy in body dysmorphic disorder

    David Veale;Peter Kinderman;Susan Riley;Christina Lambrou

  • AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE COGNITIVE THERAPY SCALE FOR PSYCHOSIS (CTS-Psy)

    Gillian Haddock;Sheila Devane;Tim Bradshaw;John McGovern

  • Psychological processes in bipolar affective disorder: negative cognitive style and reward processing.

    Emma van der Gucht;Richard Morriss;Gillian A. Lancaster;Peter K. Kinderman

  • The role of metacognitive beliefs in auditory hallucinations

    Fiona Lobban;Gillian Haddock;Peter Kinderman;Adrian Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Sara Tai
Sara Tai University of Manchester
Rhiannon Corcoran
Rhiannon Corcoran University of Liverpool
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Nicholas Tarrier
Nicholas Tarrier University of Manchester
Jan Scott
Jan Scott Newcastle University
Richard Drake
Richard Drake University of Manchester
John Read
John Read University of East London
David Kingdon
David Kingdon University of Southampton
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London

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