Psychiatry trainee Dr Lindsay Solera-Deuchar joins us to discuss her time working on the Greek island of Samos with Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, providing mental health and psychosocial support to asylum seekers. Hosts Sachin Shah and Hamilton Morrin find out what presentations she helped manage, the conditions at the camp, and mental health provisions available, as well as discussing the role of psychiatry in advocating for social and political progress.

Follow this link to read Lindsay’s Open Access article: https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2022.3

Watch Lindsay's video abstract: https://vimeo.com/bjpsych/bji-2022-3

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Related content: follow this link to listen to Dr Tom Nutting on mental healthcare in the refugee camp population of Lesbos:  https://bit.ly/3HouIxk

Follow this link to read Tom Nutting's journal article: doi.org/10.1192/bji.2019.2

Watch Tom Nutting's video abstract: vimeo.com/bjpsych/bji-2019-2

Podcast transcripts available: bit.ly/3CXSijb

Delivering mental healthcare to asylum seekers on Samos, Greece, with Dr Lindsay Solera-Deuchar

Content warning:
This podcast discusses themes around suicide and suicide ideation.

Dr Kevin Rui-Han Teoh in conversation with Professor Richard Williams on the subject of the recent BJPsych Open paper “Working conditions, psychological distress and suicidal ideation: cross-sectional survey study of UK junior doctors”.

View the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.619
Authors: Kevin Rui-Han Teoh, Alice Dunning, Anna Kathryn Taylor, Anya Gopfert, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Johanna Spiers, Louis Appleby, Maria Van Hove, Marta Buszewicz and Ruth Riley

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Working conditions, psychological distress and suicidal ideation: a study of UK junior doctors

Dr Neil Armstrong joins Dr Norella Broderick to discuss the recent BJPsych Advances article "An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales".

An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales
Authors: Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom
Read the article: https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2024.60

Resources discussed during podcast:
Book: Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health
Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability
By Neil Armstrong https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003154235

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An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales

Dr Anne Doherty joins Dr Oliver Gale-Grant to discuss the recent BJPsych Advances article "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the management of depression in women with breast cancer: evidence and gaps".

Read the article: https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2025.10174
Author: Anne M. Doherty

Read the full BJPsych Advances Liaison Psychiatry special issue at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/issue/E1FD29CAAAB0EBAD0B7AC4D57D4AA6DC

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the management of depression in breast cancer

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