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Overview

Peter Tyrer is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has a strong focus on the study of psychology, particularly clinical psychology and related subfields. Their research spans across psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and general health professions.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Among Peter Tyrer's recent papers are:

  • <scp>COVID</scp>-19 health anxiety, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • Galenic syndromes: combinations of mental state and personality disorders too closely entwined to be separated, 2022, The British Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Neel Halder
  • Catherine Penny
  • Niruj Agrawal
  • Lauren Atkinson
  • Oyedeji Ayonrinde

Peter Tyrer has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with the following having the highest number of publications:

  • BJPsych Bulletin (27 publications)
  • Personality and Mental Health (14 publications)
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (5 publications)
  • World Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Psychological Medicine (3 publications)

Their book publications, primarily with Cambridge University Press, include works such as:

  • Personality Disorder, 2022
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders, 2020
  • Mind, State and Society, 2021
  • Neurosis, 2022
  • Making Sense of the ICD-11, 2023

Best Publications

  • Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health

    Michelle Campbell;Ray Fitzpatrick;Andrew Haines;Ann Louise Kinmonth

  • Systematic review of involving patients in the planning and development of health care

    Mike J Crawford;Deborah Rutter;Catherine Manley;Timothy Weaver

  • Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects

    Unknown

  • Prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in Great Britain.

    Jeremy Coid;Min Yang;Peter Tyrer;Amanda Roberts

  • Classification, assessment, prevalence, and effect of personality disorder

    Peter Tyrer;Geoffrey M Reed;Mike J Crawford

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • Personality disorder and the outcome of depression: meta-analysis of published studies.

    Giles Newton-Howes;Peter Tyrer;Tony Johnson

  • Generalised anxiety disorder

    Peter Tyrer;David Baldwin

  • Comorbidity of substance misuse and mental illness in community mental health and substance misuse services

    T. Weaver;P. Madden;V. Charles;G. Stimson

  • The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Results from the Borderline Personality Disorder Study of Cognitive Therapy (BOSCOT) Trial

    Kate Davidson;John Norrie;Peter Tyrer;Andrew Gumley

  • Classification of personality disorder.

    Peter Tyrer;John Alexander

  • Risperidone, haloperidol, and placebo in the treatment of aggressive challenging behaviour in patients with intellectual disability: a randomised controlled trial

    Peter Tyrer;Patricia C. Oliver-Africano;Zed Ahmed;Nick Bouras

  • Intensive versus standard case management for severe psychotic illness: a randomised trial

    Tom Burns;Francis Creed;Tom Fahy;Simon Thompson

  • The Social Functioning Questionnaire: A Rapid and Robust Measure of Perceived Functioning:

    Peter Tyrer;Ula Nur;Mike Crawford;Saffron Karlsen

  • The brief scale for anxiety: a subdivision of the comprehensive psychopathological rating scale.

    P Tyrer;R T Owen;D V Cicchetti

  • Manual-assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT): a randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention with bibliotherapy in the treatment of recurrent deliberate self-harm.

    K. Evans;Peter Tyrer;J. Catalan;U. Schmidt

  • The Effect of Number of Rating Scale Categories on Levels of Interrater Reliability : A Monte Carlo Investigation:

    Domenic V. Cicchetti;Donald Shoinralter;Peter J. Tyrer

  • The Development of the ICD-11 Classification of Personality Disorders: An Amalgam of Science, Pragmatism, and Politics.

    Peter Tyrer;Roger Mulder;Youl-Ri Kim;Mike J Crawford

  • Establishing the severity of personality disorder.

    Peter Tyrer;Tony Johnson

  • BENZODIAZEPINE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS AND PROPRANOLOL

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  • Prevalence of violent victimisation in severe mental illness.

    Elizabeth Walsh;Paul A Moran;Paul A Moran;Charles Scott;Kwame McKenzie

  • Second-generation versus first-generation antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia : a meta-analysis. Commentary

    Peter Tyrer;Tim Kendall;Stefan Leucht;Caroline Corves

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Kenneth R. Silk
Kenneth R. Silk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roger T. Mulder
Roger T. Mulder University of Otago
Giles Newton-Howes
Giles Newton-Howes University of Otago
Tom Burns
Tom Burns University of Oxford
Conor Duggan
Conor Duggan University of Nottingham
Francis Creed
Francis Creed University of Manchester
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Martin Knapp
Martin Knapp London School of Economics and Political Science
Obioha C. Ukoumunne
Obioha C. Ukoumunne University of Exeter

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