''The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry/La revue canadienne de psychiatrie'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
published originally by the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Since January 2015 it has been published by SAGE. It covers all aspects of
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior.
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. Articles are published in English or French, with abstracts in both languages. The journal publishes
original research
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papers,
systematic review
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s,
book review
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s,
letters to the editor
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, and official position papers, position statements, policy papers, and clinical practice guidelines of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.
History
The journal was established in January 1956 as ''The Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal/La revue de l'association canadienne de psychiatrie''. The journal started as a quarterly publication, under its founding
editor-in-chief
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Frederick Lowy
Frederick Hans Lowy, (born 1933) is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.Edward Kingstone took over as editor in 1977. The journal obtained its current name in 1979. He was succeeded in 1995 by Quentin Rae-Grant, who remained until 2004. In 2004, the journal started publishing monthly. Joel Paris became editor-in-chief in October 2004, continuing this role for 10 years. The current editor is Scott Patten, who has been in this role since 2014 The journal published 14 issues per year in 2005 and 2006, but returned to a monthly frequency in 2007. An electronic version of the journal was launched in January 2012. Because of the advertising, web access was restricted to members only in 2012 to avoid
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. Articles had been freely accessible since 2002. In 2013, paid subscribers were also allowed access. As the Journal is now published by SAGE, access is governed by that company's policies. All members of the Canadian Psychiatric Association receive a subscription as a membership benefit.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
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MEDLINE
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PsycINFO
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Science Citation Index
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. According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 4.356, ranking it 33rd out of 144 SSCI journals in the category "Psychiatry". This places it in the first quartile of Psychiatry journals. In the SCIE index, it is ranked 51 out of 156.
Online archives
The complete archive of the journal from 1956 to the present is available online. Full-text articles had been freely accessible since 2002. However, in January 2012, online access was restricted for six months, except for members of the Canadian Psychiatric Association who get immediate online access. In 2013, subscribers were allowed immediate online access.
Notable articles
Examples of highly cited articles (>200 times) published in the journal are:
* This review examined mechanisms of action of the
atypical antipsychotic
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medications, emphasizing features of their pharmacology relevant to their profile of adverse effects.
* This was a critical review of
nosological
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issues related to
bipolar disorder
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. It also proposed diagnostic criteria for bipolar spectrum disorders, making a unique contribution to the latter topic.
* This review, by one of the developers of the
Toronto Alexithymia Scale Overview
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, examined literature concerned with
alexithymia
Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing one's emotions. It is associated with difficulties in attachme ...
(an inability to identify and describe ones' emotions). The review summarized evidence that alexithymia reflects deficits in the cognitive processing and regulation of emotions. Implications for future research, and for psychotherapy, were identified.
* This was a
retrospective cohort study
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that evaluated mortality in a cohort with
schizophrenia
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by linkage to a national mortality registry. A 20-fold increase in the risk of suicide was found, but elevated mortality due to other causes was also identified. Overall, the risk of mortality was doubled and it was estimated that life expectancy was diminished by approximately 20 years.
* In this study, cholecystokinin-tetrapeptide (CCK-4) and
placebo
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were administered to 11
panic disorder
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patients. CCK-4 (but not placebo) was found to induce
panic attack
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identical to the spontaneous panic attacks that occur in people with panic disorder.
See also
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List of psychiatry journals
The following is a list of scientific journal, journals in the field of psychiatry. Psychiatry journals generally publish articles with either a general focus (meaning all aspects of psychiatry are included) or with a more specific focus. This list ...