Professor Susan McPherson

Baxter, V., Kennedy, M., Speed, E. and McPherson, S., (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)

Wicks, C., Booker, C., Kumari, M., Trotta, A. and McPherson, S., (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

Buus, N., Petersen, A., McPherson, S., Meadows, G., Brand, G. and Ong, B., (2024). The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies. Family Process. 63 (3), 1469-1483

Baxter, V., McPherson, S. and Cox, P., (2024). Effective components of services for recurrent care experienced parents: a literature review of what works. Children and Youth Services Review. 167, 107965-107965

Greally, S., Oute, J. and McPherson, S., (2024). Experiences of Parents of Children with Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis. Family Process

Gurley-Green, S., Cosgrove, L., Kostic, M., Koa, L. and McPherson, S., (2024). The Iatrogenic Consequences of Medicalising Grief: Resetting the Research Agenda. Sociology of Health and Illness

McPherson, S., Oute, J. and Speed, E., (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), 647-663

Solanki, J., Wood, L. and McPherson, S., (2023). Experiences of adults from a Black ethnic background detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 46 (1), 14-20

Baxter, V., Boydell, V. and McPherson, S., (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), 307-325

Arnold, DL. and McPherson, S., (2023). A systematic review on the mental health of parents of individuals with learning disabilities. Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments. 4 (2), 59-75

McPherson, SJ. and Speed, E., (2022). NICE rapid guidelines: exploring political influence on guidelines. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 27 (3), 137-140

McPherson, S. and Armstrong, D., (2022). Psychometric origins of depression. History of the Human Sciences. 35 (3-4), 127-143

McCormack, C., McPherson, S. and Blumenfeld, F., (2022). Diversity in clinical psychology training at the University of Essex. Clinical Psychology Forum. 352 (April 2022), 29-38

McPherson, S. and Senra, H., (2022). Psychological treatments for persistent depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and functioning outcomes.. Psychotherapy. 59 (3), 447-459

Senra, H. and McPherson, S., (2021). Depression in disabling medical conditions – current perspectives. International Review of Psychiatry. 33 (3), 312-325

Vyas, A., Wood, L. and McPherson, S., (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), 302-314

Cox, P., McPherson, S. and Blumenfeld, F., (2021). Protecting Children, Empowering Birth Parents: New Approaches in Family Justice. Societies. 11 (2), 32-32

McPherson, S., (2021). War of conscience: antivaccination and the battle for medical freedom during World War I. Medical Humanities. 47 (3), e7-e7

McPherson, S. and Oute, J., (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)

McPherson, SJ., Rost, F., Sidhu, S. and Dennis, M., (2020). Non-strategic ignorance: Considering the potential for a paradigm shift in evidence-based mental health. Health. 24 (1), 3-20

McPherson, S. and Sunkin, M., (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), 231-234

McPherson, S., (2020). A NICE game of Minecraft: philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology. Medical Humanities. 46 (3), 162-165

Jovicic, A. and McPherson, S., (2020). To support and not to cure: general practitioner management of loneliness. Health and Social Care in the Community. 28 (2), 376-384

McPherson, S. and Oute, J., (2020). Responsibilisation of caregivers in depression: the limitations of policy-based evidence. Social Theory and Health. 19 (4), 347-361

McPherson, S., (2020). NICE depression guidelines update: Cautious optimism?. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1 (327), 2-6

McPherson, S., Wicks, C. and Tercelli, I., (2020). Patient experiences of psychological therapy for depression: a qualitative metasynthesis. BMC Psychiatry. 20 (1), 313-

Cox, P., McPherson, S., Mason, C., Ryan, M. and Baxter, V., (2020). Reducing Recurrent Care Proceedings: Building a Local Evidence Base in England. Societies. 10 (4), 88-88

Flintoff, A., Speed, E. and McPherson, SJ., (2019). Risk assessment practice within primary mental health care: A logics perspective. Health. 23 (6), 656-674

Doncaster, E., Hiskey, S., McPherson, S. and Andrews, L., (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), 464-479

McPherson, S. and Beresford, P., (2019). Semantics of patient choice: how the UK national guideline for depression silences patients. Disability and Society. 34 (3), 1-7

McPherson, S. and Hengartner, MP., (2019). Long-term outcomes of trials in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence depression guideline. BJPsych Open. 5 (5), e81-

Priestley, J., 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), 128-145

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

McPherson, SJ., Rost, F., Town, J. and Abbass, A., (2018). Epistemological flaws in NICE review methodology and its impact on recommendations for psychodynamic psychotherapies for complex and persistent depression. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 32 (2), 102-121

McPherson, S., Andrews, L., Taggart, D., Cox, P., Pratt, R., Smith, V. and Thandi, J., (2018). Evaluating integrative services in edge-of-care work. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 40 (3), 299-320

Rost, F. and McPherson, S., (2018). Guidelines for Depression. New Associations. 27, 14-14

McPherson, S. and Rost, F., (2018). Guest Editorial. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1 (308), 1-2

Rost, F. and McPherson, S., (2018). Stakeholder position statement on the NICE guideline for depression in adults. Clinical Psychology Forum (308), 3-10

Doherty, E., Walsh, R., 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), 365-375

Thompson, H., 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), 48-65

McPherson, S., 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, 95-104

Priestley, J. and McPherson, S., (2016). Experiences of adults providing care to a partner or relative with depression: A meta-ethnographic synthesis. Journal of Affective Disorders. 192, 41-49

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), 476-493

Fonagy, P., Rost, F., Carlyle, J., McPherson, S., Thomas, R., Pasco Fearon, RM., 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), 312-321

McPherson, S., 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), 261-278

McPherson, S., Clayton, S., Wood, H., Hiskey, S. and Andrews, L., (2013). The Role of Childhood Experiences in the Development of Sexual Compulsivity. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. 20 (4), 259-278

Hiskey, S. and McPherson, S., (2013). That's just life: older adult constructs of trauma. Aging & Mental Health. 17 (6), 689-696

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

McPherson, S. and Armstrong, D., (2012). General Practitioner Management of Depression: A Systematic Review. Qualitative Health Research. 22 (8), 1150-1159

Taylor, D., Carlyle, J., McPherson, S., Rost, F., 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-

Mcpherson, SJ. and McPherson, A., (2012). The private and political journey of Norah Dacre Fox, a suffragette turned fascist. Historica: women's history magazine. 69 (Summer 2012)

Sinclair, M., McPherson, S., 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), 228-236

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), 49-60

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), 129-143

McPherson, A. and Mcpherson, SJ., (2010). Norah Elam: a Feminist Fascist from Stillorgan. Journal of the Kilmacud-Stillorgan Local History Society (5)

McPherson, S., 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), 405-414

McPherson, S. and Armstrong, D., (2009). Negotiating ?depression? in primary care: A qualitative study. Social Science & Medicine. 69 (8), 1137-1143

McPherson, S., Walker, C. and Carlyle, J-A., (2006). Primary care counsellors’ experiences of working with treatment resistant depression: A qualitative pilot study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 6 (4), 250-257

McPherson, S. and Armstrong, D., (2006). Social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression. Social Science & Medicine. 62 (1), 50-58

McPherson, S. and Armstrong, D., (2006). Erratum to: “Social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression”. Social Science & Medicine. 62 (11), 2915-2915

McPherson, S., Cairns, P., Carlyle, J., Shapiro, DA., Richardson, P. and Taylor, D., (2005). The effectiveness of psychological treatments for treatment‐resistant depression: a systematic review. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 111 (5), 331-340

McPherson, S., (2003). Stress and coping in accident and emergency senior house officers. Emergency Medicine Journal. 20 (3), 230-231

Di Ceglie, D., Freedman, D., McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2002). Children and Adolescents Referred to a Specialist Gender Identity Development Service: Clinical Features and Demographic Characteristics. International Journal of Transgenderism. 6 (1)

McPherson, S. and Wilkinson, M., (2001). Health informatics and the cultural divide: a UK perspective. Health Informatics Journal. 7 (2), 62-65

Wilkinson, M. and Mcpherson, SJ., (2001). NHS Direct Online and the Information Divide. Health Information on the Internet (22), 8-10

Cavenagh, P. and McPherson, S., (2023). British boarding schools on trial. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School. Routledge. 154- 172

Hopkins, E., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). British boarding schools, mental health and resilience. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School. Routledge. 21- 35

Hayes, R., Blumenfeld, F., McPherson, S., Cavenagh, P. and Phillips, C., (2023). Escape, autonomy, friendship and resilience. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School. Routledge. 130- 153

Emerson-Smith, M., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). Having psychotherapy to help with boarding school experiences. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School. Routledge. 118- 129

Lee, J., Wardman-Browne, J., Hopkins, E., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). It’s not all down to boarding: Early family and peer relationships among boarders. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 53- 68

Hayes, R., Blumenfeld, F., McPherson, S., Cavenagh, P. and Phillips, C., (2023). Escape, autonomy, friendship and resilience: Positive experiences of British boarding school. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 130- 153

McPherson, S., Emerson-Smith, M. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). British boarding schools on trial: Making the case for new evidence. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 1- 20

Emerson-Smith, M., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). Having psychotherapy to help with boarding school experiences: The role of denial, shame and privilege. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 118- 129

Cavenagh, P. and McPherson, S., (2023). British boarding schools on trial: Making the case for ‘boarding family syndrome’. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 154- 172

Hopkins, E., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). British boarding schools, mental health and resilience: Survey research. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall. 21- 35

Hayes, R., Blumenfeld, F., McPherson, S. and Cavenagh, P., (2023). Escape, autonomy, friendship, and resilience: Positive experiences of British boarding school. In: The Psychological Impact of Boarding School The Trunk in the Hall. Editors: Cavenagh, P., McPherson, S. and Ogden, J., . Routledge. 1003280498. 9781003280491

McPherson, S., Rost, F., Town, J. and Abbass, A., (2020). Epistemological flaws in NICE review methodology and its impact on recommendations for psychodynamic psychotherapies for complex and persistent depression. In: The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today. Editors: Clarke, J., Cundy, P. and Yakeley, J., . Routledge. 0367458985. 9780367458980

Speed, E., McPherson, S. and Beresford, P., (2020). Questioning the Patient Participation Imperative. In: Health and Wellbeing: The University of Essex Reader. Editors: Boncori, I. and Loughran, T., . Editoriale Scientifica. 169- 186. 9788893916639

McPherson, S., (2018). Quality in psychological treatment services: Reflections and developments. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 21- 26

McPherson, S. and Leroux, P., (2018). Case study of a mental health trust. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 17- 20

Leroux, P., McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). Clinical guidelines. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 121- 124

McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). Involving health service users. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 125- 126

McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). Choosing outcome measures: Considerations. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 105- 108

McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). The early years. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 3- 8

McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). Categories of information. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 97- 104

McPherson, S. and Leroux, P., (2018). Resources for EBP. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 111- 119

McPherson, S., Richardson, P. and Leroux, P., (2018). Political milestones. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 9- 15

McPherson, S., Richardson, P. and Leroux, P., (2018). Foreword. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. xi- xii

McPherson, S. and Richardson, P., (2018). Audit cycle. In: Clinical Effectiveness in Psychotherapy and Mental Health: Strategies and Resources for the Effective Clinical Governance. 71- 84

Taylor, D., Carlyle, J., Mcpherson, SJ. and Rost, F., (2013). Die Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS): Eine randomisiert kontrollierte Studie zur analytischen Psychotherapie therapieresistenter/therapierefraktarer Depressionen. In: Chronische Depression Verstehen – Behandeln – Erforschen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 268- 307. 3525451687. 9783525451687

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

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

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

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

McPherson, S., Beresford, P., Speed, E. and Taggart, D., (2021).Beyond the academy - democratising user involvement in health & social care,Cost of Living blog

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

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

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

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

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

McPherson, S., (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. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1(304),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 )

Mcpherson, SJ., (2017).Old wine in new bottles: on the new NICE guideline for depression. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1(303),http://www.cost-ofliving.net

Mcpherson, S., Rost, F., Taylor, D. and Fonagy, P., (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., (2016).Psychodynamic therapy – there’s more to it than lying on a couch talking about your childhood,The Conversation

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

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