Academic psychiatry is everyone's business

Hugo D Critchley; Derek K Tracy; Gin S Malhi; Laith Alexander; David S Baldwin; Jonathan Cavanagh; Samuel R Chamberlain; Andrea Cipriani; Saeed Farooq; Angela Hassiotis; Oliver Howes; Sameer Jauhar; Stephen M Lawrie; Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba; Anne Lingford-Hughes; James H MacCabe; Ismail Memon; Ciaran Mulholland; Musa Sami; Kapil Sayal; Rohit Shankar; Lindsey Sinclair; Oliver Sparasci; Ekkehart F A Staufenberg; Lucy E Stirland; Paul R A Stokes; Charlotte Wilson Jones; Peter W R Woodruff; Allan H Young

doi:10.1192/bjp.2024.152

Academic psychiatry is everyone's business

Br J Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 16:1-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2024.152. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Hugo D Critchley¹, Derek K Tracy^{2

3

4}, Gin S Malhi⁵, Laith Alexander⁶, David S Baldwin^{7

8}, Jonathan Cavanagh⁹, Samuel R Chamberlain^{7

8}, Andrea Cipriani^{10

11}, Saeed Farooq^{12

13}, Angela Hassiotis¹⁴, Oliver Howes¹⁵, Sameer Jauhar¹⁶, Stephen M Lawrie¹⁷, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba¹⁸, Anne Lingford-Hughes¹⁹, James H MacCabe²⁰, Ismail Memon²¹, Ciaran Mulholland²², Musa Sami²³, Kapil Sayal^{24

25}, Rohit Shankar²⁶, Lindsey Sinclair²⁷, Oliver Sparasci²⁸, Ekkehart F A Staufenberg²⁹, Lucy E Stirland³⁰, Paul R A Stokes³¹, Charlotte Wilson Jones¹⁶, Peter W R Woodruff³², Allan H Young³³

Affiliations

¹ Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK; and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing, UK.
² West London NHS Trust, London, UK.
³ Brunel University Medical School, Brunel University London, UK.
⁴ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia; and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.
⁶ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and Department of Psychological Medicine, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK.
⁸ Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
⁹ Centre for Immunobiology, School of Infection & Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK; Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK.
¹¹ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
¹² Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Stafford, UK.
¹³ NIHR, School of Medicine, Keele University, UK.
¹⁴ Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK; and North London Mental Health Partnership, London, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
¹⁶ Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
¹⁷ Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁸ North London Mental Health Partnership, London, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, UK; and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
²⁰ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and National Psychosis Unit, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
²¹ School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK; and Department of General Adult Psychiatry, Swansea Bay University Health Board, UK.
²² School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queens University, UK.
²³ Psychiatry UK, UK.
²⁴ Unit of Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
²⁵ Centre for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across the Lifespan, Institute of Mental Health, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
²⁶ Peninsula Medical School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK.
²⁷ Dementia Research Group, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK; and Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership, Bath, UK.
²⁸ Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Burnley, UK.
²⁹ School of Medicine, University of East Anglia, UK; and Neurosciences Division, Department of Neurology, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK.
³⁰ Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK; and NHS Lothian, Scotland, UK.
³¹ Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
³² School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, UK.
³³ School of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.

PMID: 39411847
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2024.152

Abstract

This editorial considers the value and nature of academic psychiatry by asking what defines the specialty and psychiatrists as academics. We frame academic psychiatry as a way of thinking that benefits clinical services and discuss how to inspire the next generation of academics.

Keywords: Academic psychiatry; psychiatric careers; psychiatric education; psychiatric research.