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Research

We have over 30 research projects and/or training initiatives in progress. Our work is in the following streams: 

  1. Borderline Personality Disorder and its differential diagnosis.
  2. Narcissistic Personality Disorder and its differential diagnosis.
  3. Training in PD. We have training for different professions (eg psychiatrists, social workers) and at different levels of care (eg GPs, inpatient psychiatric wards)
  4. PD and CAMHS services – diagnosis and transitioning
  5. Old Age and PD
  6. Specifical clinical approaches: Psychoanalysis, Neuropsychoanalysis, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment
  7. Cultural issues in PD

Research list

  1. Lee, T., Norton-Poulin, M., & Clarici, A. (2025) The Contribution of Neuropsychoanalysis to Clinical Practice in Psychiatry. Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría, 53(4):927-929. doi: 10.62641/aep.v53i4.1953. PMID: 40791039; PMCID: PMC12353229
  2. Arif Abdul Rassip, M.N., Mohamed, S., Razali, S., Rasidi, D., & Lee, T. (2025) The Effectiveness of Teaching Applied Transference Focused Psychotherapy on the Attitudes and Technical Confidence of Psychiatry Trainees in Malaysia, on the Management of Patients with Personality Disorder. BJPsych Open, 11(Suppl 1):S78. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2025.10250. PMCID: PMC12242149.
  3. Konstantinidou, H., Chartonas, D., Rogalski, D., & Lee T. (2025) Relational Prescribing. in Taylor, D. M., Barnes, T. R. E., & Young, A. H. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry (15th ed.). Wiley.
  4. Krishnan, S., Ibrahim, K., Agyeman, J., Reid, H., & Lee, T. (2024) Reasons Why Patients Are Turned Down From Treatment at a Personality Disorder Service: Implications for Referrers and Personality Disorder Services. BJPsych Open, 10(S1):S180–1. doi:10.1192/bjo.2024.458
  5. Lee, T., & Solms, M. (2024) Managing the clinical encounter with patients with personality disorder in a general psychiatry setting: key contributions from neuropsychoanalysis. BJPsych Advances, 30(5):303–10. doi:10.1192/bja.2023.43
  6. Atkinson, J. R., Kristinsdottir, K. H., Lee, T., & Freestone, M. C. (2024). Comparing the symptom presentation similarities and differences of complex posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(4):241-253. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000664
  7. Winsper, C., Bhattacharya, R., Bhui, K, et al. (2024). The impact of reduced routine community mental healthcare on people from minority ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 224(5): 150-156. doi:10.1192/bjp.2024.11
  8. Bhui, K. & Cipriani, A (2023). Understanding and responding to the drivers of inequalities in mental health. BMJ Ment Health; 26:e300921
  9. Mughal, F., de Lusignan, S,, Schmidt, U., & Bhui, K. (2023) Assessment and management of medical emergencies in eating disorders: guidance for GPs British Journal of General Practice; 73 (730): 232-233. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp23X732849
  10. Bhui, K. & Butch, I. (2023) The trouble with trauma and triggering. Lancet Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00112-8
  11. Gómez-Carrillo, A., Kirmayer, L.J., Aggarwal, N.K., et al (2023) Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Cultural Psychiatry. Integrating neuroscience in psychiatry: a cultural-ecosocial systemic approach. Lancet Psychiatry. 2023 Apr;10(4):296-304. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00006-8. Epub 2023 Feb 21. PMID: 36828009
  12. Lee, T., & Levy, K. N. (2023). Treating narcissistic personality disorders: A case illustration of key clinical contributions from Transference Focused Psychotherapy for psychoanalytic practitioners. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 37(2), 179–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2191264
  13. Bax, O.K., Chartonas, D., Parker, J., Symniakou, S., & Lee T. (2023) Personality disorder. BMJ; 382:e050290. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2019-050290. PMID: 37666510.
  14. Konstantinidou, H., Chartonas, D., Rogalski, D., & Lee T. (2023) Will this tablet make me happy again? The contribution of relational prescribing in providing a pragmatic and psychodynamic framework for prescribers. BJPsych Advances; 29(4):265–73. doi:10.1192/bja.2022.43
  15. Roughley, M., Maguire, A., Wood, G., & Lee, T. (2021) Referral of patients with emotionally unstable personality disorder for specialist psychological therapy: why, when and how? BJPsych Bull; 45(1):52-58. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2020.48. PMID: 33504392; PMCID: PMC8058872.
  16. Lee, T., & Hersh, R.G. (2019) Managing the clinical encounter with patients with borderline personality disorder in a general psychiatry setting: key contributions from transference-focused psychotherapy. BJPsych Advances25(4):229–36. doi:10.1192/bja.2018.63