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Gurley-Green, Sarah and Cosgrove, Lisa and Kostic, Milutin and Koa, Lauren and McPherson, Susan (2024) The Iatrogenic Consequences of Medicalising Grief: Resetting the Research Agenda. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47 (2). e13866-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13866

Greally, Suzanna and Oute, Jeppe and McPherson, Susan (2024) Experiences of Parents of Children with Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis. Family Process, 64 (1). e13087-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.13087

Baxter, Vanessa and Kennedy, Mary and Speed, Ewen and McPherson, Susan (2024) Meeting the needs of patients with dementia to reduce hospital stays: a qualitative exploration of patient pathways and services. Mental Health Practice, 27 (5). DOI https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2024.e1713

Buus, Niels and Petersen, Alan and McPherson, Susan and Meadows, Graham and Brand, Gabrielle and Ong, Ben (2024) The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies. Family Process, 63 (3). pp. 1469-1483. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12927

Wicks, Claire and Booker, Cara and Kumari, Meena and Trotta, Antonella and McPherson, Susan (2024) Are protected characteristics associated with mental health care inequalities in the adult UK general population? a cross-sectional study. PLoS One, 19 (8). e0308279-e0308279. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308279

Tercelli, Ilaria and McPherson, Susan and Senra, Hugo (2024) Experiences of working-age adults with depression of psychodynamic couple therapy: a thematic analysis using a phenomenological approach. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 40 (2). pp. 175-194. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12879

McPherson, Susan and Freedman, David EP (2024) Psychological outcomes of 12-15-year-olds with gender dysphoria receiving pubertal suppression in the UK: assessing reliable and clinically significant change. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 50 (3). pp. 315-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2023.2281986

Senra, Hugo and Gaglianone, Caterina and McPherson, Susan and Unterrainer, Human-Friederich (2024) Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Adults with Binge-Eating Disorder – a Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 25 (3). e13669-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13669 (In Press)

Arnold, Danielle L and McPherson, Susan (2023) A systematic review on the mental health of parents of individuals with learning disabilities. Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments, 4 (2). pp. 59-75. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041231217104

Baxter, Vanessa and Boydell, Victoria and McPherson, Susan (2023) Multi-disciplinary support for families with complex needs and children on the edge of care in the UK: a mixed methods evaluation. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 45 (4). pp. 307-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2023.2281840

McPherson, Susan and Oute, Jeppe and Speed, Ewen (2023) Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 27 (5). pp. 647-663. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593221074887

Solanki, Jay and Wood, Lisa and McPherson, Susan (2023) Experiences of adults from a Black ethnic background detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 46 (1). pp. 14-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000537

McPherson, Susan and Senra, Hugo (2022) Psychological treatments for persistent depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and functioning outcomes. Psychotherapy, 59 (3). pp. 447-459. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000448

McPherson, Susan and Armstrong, David (2022) Psychometric origins of depression. History of the Human Sciences, 35 (3-4). pp. 127-143. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211009085

McPherson, Susan J and Speed, Ewen (2022) NICE rapid guidelines: exploring political influence on guidelines. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 27 (3). pp. 137-140. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111635

McCormack, Christopher and McPherson, Susan and Blumenfeld, Frances (2022) Diversity in clinical psychology training at the University of Essex. Clinical Psychology Forum, 352 (April ). pp. 29-38.

Vyas, Anisha and Wood, Lisa and McPherson, Susan (2021) A qualitative exploration of stigma experiences of second-generation British South-Asian people using an early intervention in psychosis service. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, 13 (4). pp. 302-314. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2021.1897654

McPherson, Susan (2021) War of conscience: antivaccination and the battle for medical freedom during World War I. Medical Humanities, 47 (3). e7-e7. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012069

McPherson, Susan and Oute, Jeppe (2021) A proverbial double-edged sword: A qualitative metasynthesis of family involvement in depression from the perspective of people with depression. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 18 (34).

Cox, Pamela and McPherson, Susan and Blumenfeld, Frances (2021) Protecting Children, Empowering Birth Parents: New Approaches in Family Justice. Societies, 11 (2). p. 32. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/soc11020032

Senra, Hugo and McPherson, Susan (2021) Depression in disabling medical conditions – current perspectives. International Review of Psychiatry, 33 (3). pp. 312-325. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2021.1887823

Cox, Pam and McPherson, Susan and Mason, Claire and Ryan, Mary and Baxter, Vanessa (2020) Reducing Recurrent Care Proceedings: Building a Local Evidence Base in England. Societies, 10 (4). p. 88. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10040088

McPherson, Susan (2020) A NICE game of Minecraft: philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology. Medical Humanities, 46 (3). pp. 162-165. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011658

McPherson, Susan and Wicks, Claire and Tercelli, Ilaria (2020) Patient experiences of psychological therapy for depression: a qualitative metasynthesis. BMC Psychiatry, 20 (1). 313-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02682-1

McPherson, Susan and Sunkin, Maurice (2020) The Dobson–Rawlins pact and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: impact of political independence on scientific and legal accountability. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 216 (4). pp. 231-234. DOI https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.121

Jovicic, Ana and McPherson, Susan (2020) To support and not to cure: general practitioner management of loneliness. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28 (2). pp. 376-384. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12869

McPherson, Susan J and Rost, Felicitas and Sidhu, Sukhjit and Dennis, Maxine (2020) Non-strategic ignorance: Considering the potential for a paradigm shift in evidence-based mental health. Health, 24 (1). pp. 3-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459318785720

Flintoff, Adam and Speed, Ewen and McPherson, Susan J (2019) Risk assessment practice within primary mental health care: A logics perspective. Health, 23 (6). pp. 656-674. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459318769471

McPherson, Susan and Hengartner, Michael P (2019) Long-term outcomes of trials in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence depression guideline. BJPsych Open, 5 (5). e81-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.65

Doncaster, Emily and Hiskey, Syd and McPherson, Susan and Andrews, Leanne (2019) “I'm Still Fighting for the Two of Us”: How Partners of UK Veterans Construct Their Experience of Living with Combat‐Related Trauma. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45 (3). pp. 464-479. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12340

McPherson, Susan and Beresford, Peter (2019) Semantics of patient choice: how the UK national guideline for depression silences patients. Disability and Society, 34 (3). pp. 1-7. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1589757

McPherson, Susan and Andrews, Leanne and Taggart, Danny and Cox, Pamela and Pratt, Richard and Smith, Verity and Thandi, Jasmeet (2018) Evaluating integrative services in edge-of-care work. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 40 (3). pp. 299-320. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2018.1493651

McPherson, SJ and Rost, Felicitas and Town, Joel and Abbass, Allan (2018) Epistemological flaws in NICE review methodology and its impact on recommendations for psychodynamic psychotherapies for complex and persistent depression. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 32 (2). pp. 102-121. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2018.1458331

Mcpherson, SJ (2018) Old wine in new bottles? On the new NICE guidelines for depression. Clinical Psychology Forum, 303 (March ). pp. 9-12.

Priestley, J and McPherson, SJ and Davies, F (2018) Couples Disease: The Experience of Living with a Partner with Chronic Depression. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, 17 (2). pp. 128-145. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/15332691.2017.1372833

Doherty, E and Walsh, R and Andrews, L and McPherson, SJ (2017) Measuring Emotional Intelligence Enhances the Psychological Evaluation of Chronic Pain. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 24 (3-4). pp. 365-375. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-017-9515-x

Priestley, Jemma and McPherson, Susan (2016) Experiences of adults providing care to a partner or relative with depression: A meta-ethnographic synthesis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 192. pp. 41-49. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.12.011

Thompson, H and McPherson, S and Marsland, L (2016) 'Am I damaging my own family?': Relational changes between foster carers and their birth children. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 21 (1). pp. 48-65. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104514554310

McPherson, S and Hiskey, S and Alderson, Z (2016) Distress in working on dementia wards - a threat to compassionate care: a grounded theory study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 53. pp. 95-104. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.08.013

Fonagy, P and Rost, F and Carlyle, J and McPherson, S and Thomas, R and Pasco Fearon, RM and Goldberg, D and Taylor, D (2015) Pragmatic randomized controlled trial of long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression: the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS). World Psychiatry, 14 (3). pp. 312-321. DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20267

Floris, J and McPherson, S (2015) Fighting the Whole System: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Labelling Theory and Iatrogenic Doubting. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 16 (4). pp. 476-493. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2014.990075

McPherson, S and Byng, R and Oxley, D (2014) Treatment resistant depression in primary care: Co-constructing difficult encounters. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 18 (3). pp. 261-278. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459313497607

McPherson, S and Clayton, S and Wood, H and Hiskey, S and Andrews, L (2013) The Role of Childhood Experiences in the Development of Sexual Compulsivity. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 20 (4). pp. 259-278. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2013.803213

Hiskey, S and McPherson, S (2013) That's just life: older adult constructs of trauma. Aging & Mental Health, 17 (6). pp. 689-696. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2013.765832

Hiskey, S and McPherson, S (2013) That's just life: older adult constructs of trauma. Faculty for the Psychology of Older People Newsletter, 124. pp. 17-23.

Taylor, D and Carlyle, J and McPherson, S and Rost, F and Thomas, R and Fonagy, P (2012) Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS): a randomised controlled trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for treatment-resistant/treatment-refractory forms of depression. BMC Psychiatry, 12 (1). 60-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-12-60

McPherson, S and Armstrong, D (2012) General Practitioner Management of Depression: A Systematic Review. Qualitative Health Research, 22 (8). pp. 1150-1159. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732312448540

Sinclair, M and McPherson, S and Bor, R and Orban, L (2011) Another dragon in the kitchen: Psychological experiences of hepatitis C treatment among HIV-hepatitis C co-infected gay men. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 11 (3). pp. 228-236. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2010.498584

Thompson, H and McPherson, S (2011) The experience of living with a foster sibling, as described by the birth children of foster carers A thematic analysis of the literature. Adoption & Fostering Journal, 35 (2). pp. 49-60. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/030857591103500206

Pauley, G and McPherson, S (2010) The experience and meaning of compassion and self-compassion for individuals with depression or anxiety. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 83 (2). pp. 129-143. DOI https://doi.org/10.1348/147608309x471000

McPherson, S and Evans, C and Richardson, P (2009) The NICE Depression Guidelines and the recovery model: Is there an evidence base for IAPT? Journal of Mental Health, 18 (5). pp. 405-414. DOI https://doi.org/10.3109/09638230902968258

McPherson, S and Armstrong, D (2009) Negotiating ?depression? in primary care: A qualitative study. Social Science & Medicine, 69 (8). pp. 1137-1143. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.032

Book

Cavenagh, Penny and McPherson, Susan and Ogden, Jane (2023) The Psychological Impact of Boarding School The Trunk in the Hall. Routledge. ISBN 9781032248738. Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychological-Impact...

McPherson, S and McPherson, A (2010) Mosley's Old Suffragette: A Biography of Norah Dacre Fox. lulu.com. ISBN 9781446699676.

Other

McPherson, Susan (2023) Purity and danger in pandemic public health. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2022) How blue are you feeling? The social life of questionnaires in measuring depression. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2021) Blinded by the Christmas lights: NICE depression guidelines. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2021) An unpatriotic agitation? Public health versus the right to health. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2021) War of Conscience: Anti-Vaccination and the Battle for Medical Freedom During World War One. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog.

McPherson, Susan (2021) Pile the bodies high: a policy led by science or led by donkeys? Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan and Beresford, Peter and Speed, Ewen and Taggart, Danny (2021) Beyond the academy - democratising user involvement in health & social care. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2020) For COVID-19 vaccination programmes to be effective history shows gender equality in science is necessary. LSE Impact Blog.

McPherson, Susan (2020) Mistakes of the Masters: the problem with Chief Scientific Officers. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan and Oute, Jeppe (2020) In lockdown with depression: let’s not pass the buck onto families in the aftermath of COVID-19. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2020) We need rest not reflection: psychological support for the medical frontline. Cost of Living blog.

McPherson, Susan (2019) BMJ Rapid Response: What's wrong with the NICE depression guideline? BMJ.

McPherson, Susan (2019) Atalanta the Greek Amazon - revisioning gender equality in STEMM. Cost of Living blog.

Mcpherson, SJ (2017) Guidelines for Depression: More Gourmet Nights from NICE. http://www.cost-ofliving.net/.

Mcpherson, SJ (2017) Response to NICE Draft Guideline on Depression in Adults. National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE ). (Unpublished)

Mcpherson, SJ (2017) Old wine in new bottles: on the new NICE guideline for depression. http://www.cost-ofliving.net.

Mcpherson, Susan and Rost, Felicitas and Taylor, David and Fonagy, Peter (2017) Leaflet: A lay summary of the Tavistock Adult Depression Study, a Randomised Controlled Trial of long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for long-term depression. Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

Mcpherson, SJ and Hiskey, S (2016) Is the NHS really suffering a crisis of compassion? http://www.cost-ofliving.net.

Mcpherson, SJ (2016) Psychodynamic therapy – there’s more to it than lying on a couch talking about your childhood. The Conversation.

Mcpherson, SJ (2015) Suffragette: On 100 years of votes for women. http://www.cost-ofliving.net/.