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The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights (2017)
Journal Article
Lewis, O., & Callard, F. (2017). The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights. International Journal of Mental Health, 46(3), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2017.1278963

In 2016 the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) published a “Bill of Rights.” This article considers and analyzes what is at stake in a global professional clinical organization developing such a document that purports to support its efforts to tackl... Read More about The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights.

What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Patel, R., Oduola, S., Callard, F., Wykes, T., Broadbent, M., Stewart, R., …McGuire, P. (2017). What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis. BMJ Open, 7(3), Article e013113. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013113

Objective: The proportion of people with mental health disorders who participate in clinical research studies is much smaller than for those with physical health disorders. It is sometimes assumed that this reflects an unwillingness to volunteer for... Read More about What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis.

The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder: Parsing Anxiety through Psychopharmacological Dissection (2016)
Journal Article
Callard, F. (2016). The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder: Parsing Anxiety through Psychopharmacological Dissection. Osiris, 31(1), 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1086/688503

The category of panic disorder was significantly indebted to early psychopharmacological experiments (in the late 1950s and early 1960s) by the psychiatrist Donald Klein, in collaboration with Max Fink. Klein’s technique of “psychopharmacological dis... Read More about The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder: Parsing Anxiety through Psychopharmacological Dissection.

Cardiovascular disease treatment among patients with severe mental illness: a data linkage study between primary and secondary care (2016)
Journal Article
Woodhead, C., Ashworth, M., Broadbent, B., Callard, F., Hotopf, M., Schofield, P., …Henderson, M. (2016). Cardiovascular disease treatment among patients with severe mental illness: a data linkage study between primary and secondary care. British Journal of General Practice, 66(647), e374-e381. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16x685189

Background Suboptimal treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among patients with severe mental illness (SMI) may contribute to physical health disparities. Aim To identify SMI characteristics associated with meeting CVD treatment and prevention g... Read More about Cardiovascular disease treatment among patients with severe mental illness: a data linkage study between primary and secondary care.

Entangling the medical humanities (2016)
Book Chapter
Fitzgerald, D., & Callard, F. (2016). Entangling the medical humanities. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (35-49). Edinburgh University Press

The medical humanities are at a critical juncture. On the one hand, practitioners of this field can bask in their recent successes: in the UK, at least, what was once a loose set of intuitions – broadly about animating the clinical and research space... Read More about Entangling the medical humanities.

Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect (2016)
Book Chapter
Callard, F. (2016). Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (481-488). Edinburgh University Press

The eight essays in ‘Mind, Imagination, Affect’ address topoi, phenomena and historical junctures as varied as the prostrate form of an individual being put to death in the US via the necropolitical ritual of lethal injection; the prostrate form of V... Read More about Afterword: Mind, imagination, affect.

Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource (2016)
Journal Article
Perera, G., Broadbent, M., Callard, F., Chang, C., Downs, J., Dutta, R., …Stewart, R. (2016). Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource. BMJ Open, 6(3), Article e008721. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008721

Purpose The South London and Maudsley National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register and its Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) application were developed in 2008, generating a research repos... Read More about Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource.

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (2015)
Book
Callard, F., & Fitzgerald, D. (2015). Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407962

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself in the authors' own experie... Read More about Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences.

Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise (2015)
Journal Article
Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D., & Woods, A. (2015). Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise. Palgrave communications, 1, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.19

Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not wo... Read More about Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise.

Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks (2015)
Journal Article
Viney, W., Callard, F., & Woods, A. (2015). Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010692

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledges it should offer, but rather to consider what it might be cap... Read More about Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks.

The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia (2015)
Journal Article
Reeder, C., Pile, V., Crawford, P., Cella, M., Rose, D., Wykes, T., …Callard, F. (2016). The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 44(03), 288-305. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352465815000168

Background: Cognitive remediation (CR) is a psychological therapy, effective in improving cognitive performance and functioning in people with schizophrenia. As the therapy becomes more widely implemented within mental health services its longevity a... Read More about The Feasibility and Acceptability to Service Users of CIRCuiTS, a Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy Programme for Schizophrenia.

Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study (2015)
Journal Article
Robotham, D., Riches, S., Perdue, I., Callard, F., Craig, T., Rose, D., & Wykes, T. (2015). Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study. BMC Health Services Research, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0858-4

Background: Research registers of potential participants linked to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide a basis for screening and identifying people suitable for studies. Such a system relies upon people joining the register and giving permission... Read More about Consenting for contact? Linking electronic health records to a research register within psychosis services, a mixed method study.

Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey (2015)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900006-1

Background: Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central... Read More about Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records (2014)
Journal Article
Callard, F., Broadbent, M., Denis, M., Hotopf, M., Soncul, M., Wykes, T., …Stewart, R. (2014). Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records. BMJ Open, 4(12), Article e005654. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005654

Objectives: To develop a new model for patient recruitment that harnessed the full potential of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Gaining access to potential participants’ health records to assess their eligibility for studies and allow an approach a... Read More about Developing a new model for patient recruitment in mental health services: a cohort study using Electronic Health Records.

What we talk about when we talk about the default mode network (2014)
Journal Article
Callard, F., & Margulies, D. (2014). What we talk about when we talk about the default mode network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 619. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00619

The default mode network (DMN) has been widely defined as a set of brain regions that are engaged when people are in a “resting state” (left to themselves in a scanner, with no explicit task instruction). The network emerged as a scientific object in... Read More about What we talk about when we talk about the default mode network.

Psychiatric diagnosis: the indispensability of ambivalence (2014)
Journal Article
Callard, F. (2014). Psychiatric diagnosis: the indispensability of ambivalence. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(8), 526-530. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101763

The author analyses how debate over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has tended to privilege certain conceptions of psychiatric diagnosis over others, as well as to polarise positions regarding psychiatri... Read More about Psychiatric diagnosis: the indispensability of ambivalence.

Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements (2014)
Journal Article
Fitzgerald, D., & Callard, F. (2015). Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(1), 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414537319

This article is an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. Against an arid rhetoric of ‘interdisciplinarity’, it calls for a more expansive imaginary of what experiment – as practice and ethos – might offe... Read More about Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2014)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Jones, N., Bernini, M., Callard, F., Alderson-Day, B., Badcock, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2014). Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S246-S254. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu003

Despite the recent proliferation of scientific, clinical, and narrative accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), the phenomenology of voice hearing remains opaque and undertheorized. In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary approach... Read More about Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE) (2014)
Journal Article
Laker, C., Callard, F., Flach, C., Williams, P., Sayer, J., & Wykes, T. (2014). The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE). Implementation Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-9-23

Background: Health services are subject to frequent changes, yet there has been insufficient research to address how staff working within these services perceive the climate for implementation. Staff perceptions, particularly of barriers to change, m... Read More about The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE).

The era of the wandering mind? Twenty-first century research on self-generated mental activity (2013)
Journal Article
Callard, F., Smallwood, J., Golchert, J., & Margulies, D. S. (2013). The era of the wandering mind? Twenty-first century research on self-generated mental activity. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00891

The first decade of the twenty-first century was characterized by renewed scientific interest in self-generated mental activity (activity largely generated by the individual, rather than in direct response to experimenters’ instructions or specific e... Read More about The era of the wandering mind? Twenty-first century research on self-generated mental activity.