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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	THE ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY STATES BY RATING	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1959	8,149
2	A Parental Bonding Instrument	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1979	2,925
3	The use of analogue scales in rating subjective feelings	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1974	1,692
4	Disorders of attention and perception in early schizophrenia	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1961	1,177
5	Sense of self in recovery from severe mental illness	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1992	444
6	The assessment of antenatal emotional attachment: Development of a questionnaire instrument	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1993	411
7	THE AILMENT*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1957	407
8	A scale to measure locus of control of behaviour	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1984	381
9	The evolution of social attractiveness and its role in shame, humiliation, guilt and therapy	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1997	361
10	The role of shame and guilt in traumatic events: A clinical model of shame-based and guilt-based PTSD	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2001	332
11	Abnormal illness behaviour	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1969	296
12	STANDARDIZATION OF PROGRESSIVE MATRICES, 1938	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1941	291
13	Persecutory delusions and attributional style	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1989	241
14	The correlates of antenatal attachment in pregnant women	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1997	238
15	MENTAL DISEASE AND CRIME: OUTLINE OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EUROPEAN STATISTICS	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1939	231
16	A general classification of abnormal illness behaviours	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1978	228
17	Content specific information processing and persecutory delusions: An investigation using the emotional Stroop test	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1989	208
18	THE EFFECTS OF MOTHER‐CHILD SEPARATION: A FOLLOW‐UP STUDY	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1956	203
19	The syndrome of delicate self‐cutting*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1969	201
20	The impact of care‐giving on care‐givers: Factors associated with the psychological well‐being of people supporting a dementing relative in the community	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1984	190
21	Aspects of the perceptual disorder in anorexia nervosa	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1974	189
22	Attachment research in eating disorders	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2000	184
23	A PSYCHO‐ANALYTIC APPROACH TO GROUP TREATMENT	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1950	175
24	The impact of social support on mental and physical health	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	175
25	Religious and ethnic group influences on beliefs about mental illness: A qualitative interview study	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1999	175
26	Coping with the disfiguring effects of vitiligo: A preliminary investigation into the effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1999	174
27	Cognitive behavioural therapy for drug‐resistant psychosis	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1994	171
28	The influence of psychological debriefing on emotional adaptation in women following early miscarriage: A preliminary study	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1996	170
29	Ethological strategies for defence in animals and humans: Their role in some psychiatric disorders	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	165
30	THE VARYING RESPONSE TO PAIN IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: A STUDY IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1954	164
31	A qualitative study of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2001	164
32	The evolved basis and adaptive functions of cognitive distortions	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	163
33	Cigarette smoking: natural history of a dependence disorder	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1971	162
34	Emotional disorders in evolutionary perspective	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	161
35	Life events and psychological distress in dermatologic disorders: Psoriasis, chronic urticaria and fungal infections	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1980	153
36	Experimental investigations of the relations between mood and intrusive unwanted cognitions	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1982	153
37	Biological basis of stress-related mortality	Social Science & Medicine Part E, Medical Psychology	1981	148
38	Attachment in anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational perspective	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2001	147
39	Genealogical bewilderment in children with substitute parents	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1964	144
40	Bereavement and mental illness	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1965	144
41	ON DEPERSONALIZATION¹	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1935	143
42	The phenomenology of shame and guilt: An empirical investigation	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1994	143
43	Factor analysis of analogue scales measuring subjective feelings before and after sleep	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1976	141
44	Immunological consequences of acute and chronic stressors: Mediating role of interpersonal relationships	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	141
45	Confrontation vs. belief modification in persistently deluded patients	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1978	136
46	Preventing psychological trauma in soldiers: The role of operational stress training and psychological debriefing	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2000	136
47	Psychological aspects of infertility	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1986	135
48	A study of 56 families with anorexia nervosa	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1977	133
49	Patients' techniques for coping with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	132
50	The reasons people give for taking overdoses: A further inquiry	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1979	130
51	The modification of abnormal beliefs	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1973	129
52	The influence of occupational debriefing on post-traumatic stress symptomatology in traumatized police officers	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2000	126
53	THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF INSIGHT	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1934	124
54	Brief Structured Recall: A more efficient method for studying significant therapy events	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	124
55	Attributional style in paranoid vs. depressed patients	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1990	123
56	A method of measuring psychological changes specific to the individual psychiatric patient*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1961	122
57	Accuracy of patient interviews and estimates by clinical staff in determining medication compliance	Social Science & Medicine Part E, Medical Psychology	1981	122
58	Hysteria and organic brain disease	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1975	120
59	A three‐month follow‐up of psychological morbidity after early miscarriage	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1993	119
60	Adult attachment processes: Individual and couple perspectives	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1997	119
61	AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD: AUTISM	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1958	118
62	What becomes of redundant world models? A contribution to the study of adaptation to change	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1975	118
63	Validation of the Delusions‐Symptoms‐States Inventory	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1977	118
64	The relationship between marital intimacy, perceived strain and depression in spouse caregivers of dementia sufferers	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	113
65	MIND AND ITS RELATION TO THE PSYCHE‐SOMA*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1954	110
66	Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) errors and cerebral blood flow in obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD)	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1997	108
67	The sexual competition hypothesis for eating disorders	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	108
68	Sources of stress and dissatisfaction among nurses in four hospital environments	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1989	107
69	Bereavement and mental illness	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1965	105
70	Psychological aspects of male infertility	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1990	104
71	The ‘obsessional’: on the psychological classification of obsessional character traits and symptoms*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1960	103
72	AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD: ENCOPRESIS*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1957	102
73	War neuroses and the adaptive function of REM sleep	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1972	102
74	The dietary chaos syndrome: A useful new term?	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1979	102
75	Attentional bias, persecutory delusions and the self-concept	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1994	102
76	The role of personal therapy for therapists: A review	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	102
77	Pregnancy and motherhood: interaction between fantasy and reality*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1972	100
78	THE REPRESSION AND THE RETURN OF BAD OBJECTS (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ‘WAR NEUROSES’)	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1943	99
79	The total score of the Crown‐Crisp Experiential Index: A useful and valid measure of psychoneurotic pathology	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	99
80	The psychological well-being of infertile women after a failed IVF attempt: The effects of coping	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1992	99
81	Evolutionary psychopathology: Why isn't the mind designed better than it is?	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	99
82	Childhood trauma, dissociation and self-harming behaviour: A pilot study	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2000	97
83	Effectiveness of time-limited cognitive analytic therapy of borderline personality disorder: Factors associated with outcome	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	2000	96
84	A predictive study of post-partum depression: Some predisposing characteristics	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1980	95
85	The psychopathology of handicap*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1983	95
86	Personality, stress and cancer: Prediction and prophylaxis	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1988	95
87	Why do psychiatrists neglect religion?	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1995	95
88	THE EFFORT TO DRIVE THE OTHER PERSON CRAZY—AN ELEMENT IN THE AETIOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1959	92
89	Drop‐out during in‐patient treatment of anorexia nervosa: A clinical study of 133 patients*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1983	92
90	The disruption of the ‘sense of self’ in schizophrenia: Potential links with disturbances of information processing	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1998	92
91	Linking verbal and non-verbal representations: Computer analysis of referential activity	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1999	92
92	AIDS research and prevention: A social representational approach	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1996	91
93	Developmental vs. social personality models of adult attachment and mental ill health	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1999	91
94	An Anglo-American comparison of the scaling of life events	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1976	90
95	Failure to mourn a stillbirth: An overlooked catastrophe	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1978	89
96	Counter‐transference*	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1960	88
97	THE WORLD PICTURES OF CHILDREN¹	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1939	87
98	The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire: A validity study	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1978	87
99	Avoidant attachment as a risk factor for health	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1994	87
100	Children in war: A silent majority under stress	The British Journal of Medical Psychology	1994	87

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