''BJPsych Bulletin'' is a bimonthly

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covering

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. ...

, especially issues relevant to the

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of psychiatrists. It was established in 1977, as the ''Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists'', and it was renamed the ''Psychiatric Bulletin'' in 1988. In 2010, it was renamed ''The Psychiatrist'', and was published as ''The Psychiatric Bulletin'' during 2014 before acquiring its current title in 2015. It is published by

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on behalf of the

Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental healt ...

, which owns the journal. The

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is Norman Poole (

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is an NHS trust that provides mental health services for adults, older people, children and adolescents living in the London boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth. ...

). The journal is abstracted or indexed inAbstracting and Indexing Services
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