Ian Fraser Brockington
Address:
Lower Brockington Farm, Bredenbury, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4TE, UK Telephone 0044 1885 48 3245, e-mail <i.f.brockington@bham.ac.uk>
Personal details:
Born December 12th 1935 in Chillington, Devon, the son of Professor C Fraser and Dr Joyce Brockington née Furze.
Married to Diana née Pink, with four children – Professor Daniel, Dr Alice, Dr Grace and Dr Samuel Brockington.
Leisure pursuits: family activities, bookbinding and desk-top publishing (Eyry Press), French, Italian and German literature, choral singing.
Education: Winchester College; Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College, Tancred student); University of Manchester Medical School. Degrees: BA with part II in pathology (1957), MB, B Chir, MA (1960), MRCP (1964), M Phil (London) & MRCPsychiatry (1962), MD (‘Heart muscle disease’ in Nigeria, Cambridge, 1964), FRCPsychiatry, FRCP (London) (1980)
Career
1961-1962 House Physician or House Surgeon posts at the Midland Nerve Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary (Professor Boyd) and Chester City Hospital.
1962-1969 Various posts (including a Wellcome Trust Fellowship) at University College Hospital, Ibadan and (later) the University of Ibadan, alternating with the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (Professor Goodwin).
1969-1972 training posts in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital.
1972-1975 research at the Institute of Psychiatry with Professor Kendell.
1975-1982 Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester.
1980-1981 Visiting Professorships at University of Chicago, and Washington University in St Louis.
1983- 2001 Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham (emeritus September 2001).
2002-2003 Visiting Professorships at University of Nagoya and University of Kumamoto, Japan.
2013 Honorary service researcher, University of Manchester.
Clinical work
1975-80 Honorary Consultant with responsibility for 12 beds at the University Hospital of South Manchester, and overall responsibility for the Mother & Baby unit.
1982 Honorary Consultant with responsibility for a community based psychiatric service in Central Manchester.
1983-89 Honorary Consultant in Central (later South) Birmingham, providing a service for Sparkbrook electoral ward.
1985-2001 Developing Regional Service for pregnancy-related mental illness.
1992-2001 Honorary Consultant, Mother & Baby Unit at Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital (8 single rooms, plus one apartment). This service received >500 new referrals per year, including obstetric liaison referrals from 7 maternity hospitals. At the time it may have been the only service which included domiciliary assessment & home treatment, day care and conjoint admission.
Some committee work
1983-1992 Involvement in the design of the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, and the establishment of Chairs in Learning Disability, Community Psychiatry & Biological Psychiatry (at Birmingham University), Postgraduate Psychiatry (at Keele University) and Psychotherapy (at Warwick University).
1984 Member, Maternity Services Advisory Committee.
1986-1991 Elected member, Court of Electors, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
1994-1997 Chairman, General and Old Age Psychiatry Specialist Advisory Committee of JCHPT.
1997-1999 Elected 1st Chairman, Special Committee for University Psychiatry.
International activities
1980 Convenor, international conference on puerperal mental disorders. Founder, the Marcé Society.
1982 First President of the Marcé Society.
1988 Cottman Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne.
1993 Founder, Section of Women’s Mental Health, World Psychiatric Association.
1994 Elected member of Council, European Psychiatric Association.
1996 Vice President, Association de la Méthodologie en Recherche Psychiatrique.
1996 First Chairman, Section on Women’s Mental Health, World Psychiatric Association.
1999 Candidate for Secretary for Education, World Psychiatric Association (runner-up).
2002 CME Prize, 11th AEP Congress Stockholm, May 2002.
2006 Honorary member, German Marcé Society.
2008-9 Chairman, WPA Taskforce on Child Protection and the Promotion of Mental Health in the Children of Parents with Mental Illness.
Editorial Board of the journals Psychopathology and Archives of Women’s Mental Health.
More than 30 lectures in French, German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese.
Books
(I have listed only my authored monographs)
Brockington I F (1996) Motherhood and Mental Health. Oxford University Press (612 pages, 2,650 cited references). Translated into Japanese by T Okano in 1999
Brockington I F (2006) Eileithyia’s Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium, Bredenbury, Eyry Press
Brockington I F (2008) Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process, Bredenbury, Eyry Press
Brockington I F (2014) What is Worth Knowing about ‘Puerperal Psychosis’, Bredenbury, Eyry Press
Brockington I F (2017) The Psychoses of Menstruation and Childbearing, Cambridge University Press
Brockington I F (2018) Bonding Disorders: Emotional Rejection of the Infant, Eyry Press
Inaugural lecture
Schizophrenia: Fact and Fiction. Delivered 1 December 1983, published by University of Birmingham 1986
Journal articles
(I have listed, irrespective of whether or not they appeared in ‘high impact’ peer-reviewed journals, those which I believe made a significant contribution).
1966 Cherian G, Brockington I F, Shar P M, Oakley C M, Goodwin J F. Beta-adrenergic blockade in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. British Medical Journal 1: 895-898
1967 Brockington I F, Olsen E G J, Goodwin J F. Endomyocardial fibrosis in Europeans resident in tropical Africa. Lancet 1: 593-598
1967 Ive F A, Willis A J P, Ikeme A C, Brockington I F. Endomyocardial fibrosis and filariasis. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 365: 495-516
1970 Brockington I F, Bohrer S P. Enlargement of the aortic shadow in Nigerian `heart muscle disease’. Acta Cardiologica 25: 344-356
1970 Brockington I F, Luzzatto L, Osunkoya B O. The heart in eosinophilic leukaemia. African Journal of the Medical Sciences 1: 3343-3352
1971 Brockington I F. Postpartum hypertensive heart failure. American Journal of Cardiology 25, 650-658
1972 Brockington I F, Edington G M. Adult heart disease in Western Nigeria: a clinico-pathological synopsis. American Heart Journal 83: 27-40
1973 Brockington I F, Olsen E G J. Loeffler’s endocarditis and Davies’ endomyocardial fibrosis. American Heart Journal 85: 308-322 (over 100 citations)
1973 Brockington I F, Ikeme A C, Bohrer S P. Contributions to the diagnosis of endomyocardial fibrosis. Acta Cardiologica 28: 255-272
1977 Brockington I F, Edington G M, Olsen E G J. Nigerian `heart muscle disease’: the late stages of untreated hypertensive heart failure. Acta Cardiologica 32: 245-262
1978 Brockington I F, Kendell R E, Kellett J M, Curry S H, Wainwright S. Trials of Lithium, Chlorpromazine and Amitriptyline in schizoaffective psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 133: 162-168
1978 Brockington I F, Kendell R E, Leff J P. Definitions of schizophrenia: concordance and prediction of outcome. Psychological Medicine 8: 387-398 (over 100 citations)
1978 Downing A R, Brockington I F. Nurse rating of psychotic behaviour. Journal of Advanced Nursing 3: 551-561
1979 Brockington I F, Leff J P. Schizoaffective psychosis: definitions and incidence. Psychological Medicine 9: 91-99
1979 Brockington I F, Kendell, R E, Wainwright S, Hillier V F, Walker J. The distinction between the affective psychoses and schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry 135: 243-248
1979 Kendell R E, Brockington I F, Leff J P. Prognosis implications of six alternative definitions of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 36: 25-31
1980 Brockington I F, Wainwright S, Kendell R E. Manic patients with schizophrenic or paranoid symptoms. Psychological Medicine 10: 73-83
1980 Downing A R, Francis A T, Brockington I F. A comparison of information sources in the study of psychotic illness. British Journal of Psychiatry 137: 38-44
1980 Kendell R E, Brockington I F. The identification of disease entities and the relationship between schizophrenia and the affective psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 137: 324-331
1980 Brockington I F, Kendell R E, Wainwright S. Depressed patients with schizophrenic or paranoid symptoms. Psychological Medicine 10: 665-675
1980 Brockington I F. Heart disease in tropical Africa: the last ten years. Acta Cardiologica 35: 317-328
1981 Brockington I F, Cernik K F, Schofield E M, Downing A R, Francis A T, Keelan C. Puerperal psychosis: phenomena and diagnosis. Archives of General Psychiatry 38: 829-833
1981 Helzer J E, Brockington I F, Kendell R E. Predictive validity of DSM III and Feighner definitions of schizophrenia: a comparison with Research Diagnostic Criteria and Catego. Archives of General Psychiatry 38: 791-797
1982 Brockington I F, Perris C, Kendell R E, Hillier V F, Wainwright S. The course and outcome of cycloid psychosis. Psychological Medicine 12: 97-105
1982 Brockington I F, Helzer J E, Hillier V F, Francis A T. Definitions of depression: concordance and prediction of outcome. American Journal of Psychiatry 139: 1022-1027
1982 Brockington I F, Meltzer H Y. Documenting an episode of psychotic illness: the need for multiple information sources, multiple raters and narrative. Schizophrenia Bulletin 8: 485-492
1982 Brockington I F, Altman E, Hillier V F, Meltzer H Y, Nand S. The clinical picture of bipolar affective disorder in its depressed phase. British Journal of Psychiatry 141: 558
1983 Brockington I F, Hillier V F, Francis A T, Helzer J E, Wainwright S. Definitions of mania: concordance and prediction of outcome. American Journal of Psychiatry 140: 435-438
1983 Helzer J E, Kendell R E, Brockington I F. The contribution of the six month criterion to the predictive value of the DSM III definition of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 40: 1277-1280
1984 Brockington I F, Brierley E. Rejection of a child by his mother successfully treated after three years. British Journal of Psychiatry 145: 316-318
1987 Brockington I F, Jones, E, Morris W, Hassall C, Cooper P, Wychrig O, Gray J, Lugg J, Acey G. A survey of the elderly in Kidderminster (Report to the Department of Health and Social Security)
1988 Brockington I F, Kelly A, Hall P, Deakin W. Premenstrual relapse of puerperal psychosis. Journal of Affective Disorders 14: 287-292
1988 Brockington I F, Margison F R, Schofield E, Knight R J E. The clinical picture of the depressed form of puerperal psychosis. Journal of Affective Disorders 15: 29-37
1988 Jones E, Morris W, Cooper P, Brockington I F. The needs and burdens of the elderly mentally ill. (Report to the Department of Health and Social Security)
1989 Martin C J, Brown G W, Goldbery D P, Brockington I F. Psychosocial stress and puerperal depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 16: 283-293
1989 Dean C, Williams R J, Brockington I F. Is puerperal psychosis the same as bipolar manic depressive disorder? A family study. Psychological Medicine 19: 637-647
1990 Brockington I F, Martin C, Brown G W, Goldberg P, Margison F. Stress and puerperal psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 157: 331-334
1990 Brockington I F, Oates M, Rose G. Prepartum psychosis. Journal of Affective Disorders 19: 31-35
1991 Hopker S W, Brockington I F. Psychosis following hydatidiform mole in a patient with recurrent puerperal psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 158: 122-123
1991 Brockington I F, Roper A, Copas J, Buckley M, Andrade C E, Wigg P, Farmer A, Kaufman C, Hawley R. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression: a discriminant analysis, using `lifetime’ psychopathology ratings. British Journal of Psychiatry 159: 485-494
1991 Brockington I F, Meakin C J. Increased sensitivity of dopamine receptors in puerperal psychosis. British Medical Journal 303
1991 Brockington I F, Roper A, Buckley M, Copas J, Andrade C, Wigg P, Farmer A, Kaufman C, Hawley R, Meltzer H Y. Bipolar disorder, cycloid psychosis and schizophrenia: a study using “lifetime” psychopathology ratings, factor analysis and canonical variate analysis. European Psychiatry, Vol 6, No 5, 223-226
1992 Brockington I F, Roper A, Edmunds E, Kaufman C, Meltzer H Y. A longitudinal psychopathological schedule. Psychological Medicine 22: 1035-1043
1992 Brockington I F. Schizophrenia: Yesterday’s concept. European Psychiatry, 7, 5 (1992), 203-207
1992 Brockington I F, Roper A, Meltzer H Y, Altman E, Perry R. Multiple Raters. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Vol 2: 187-190
1993 Brockington I F, Hall P, Levings J, Murphy C. The community’s tolerance of the mentally ill. British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 93-99
1993 Hall P, Brockington I F, Levings J, Murphy C. A comparison of responses to the mentally ill in two communities. British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 99-108
1994 Craddock N, Brockington I F, Mant R, Parfitt E, McGuffin P, Owen M. Bipolar affective puerperal psychosis associated with consanguinity. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 359-364
1995 Meakin C J, Brockington I F, Lynch S, Jones S R. Dopamine supersensitivity and hormonal status in puerperal psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 166: 73-79
1995 Ballard C G, Stanley A K, Brockington I F (1995) Post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth. British Journal of Psychiatry 166: 525-528
1996 Filer A D J, Brockington I F. Obsessions of child sexual abuse. Psychopathology 29: 135-138
1997 Kent L, Laidlaw J D D, Brockington I F. Fetal abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect 21: 181-186
1998 Brockington I F. Menstrual Psychosis. Archives of Womens Mental Health 1: 3-13
1998 Weightman H, Dalal B M, Brockington I F. Pathological fear of cot death. Psychopathology 31: 246-249
1998 Deuchar N, Brockington I. Puerperal and menstrual psychoses: the proposal of a unitary etiological hypothesis. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology 19: 104-110
1998 Morris W, Brockington I F. The mental health of women in middle life, and the effect of the burden of care giving. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 1: 63-75
1998 England S, Richardson B, Brockington I F. Postpartum psychosis after short gestation. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 1: 143-146
1999 Hassam F, Brockington I F. Obsessions of foetal sexual abuse. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 1: 193-195
1999 Jones I, Coyle N, Robertson E, Middle F, McCandless F, Lendon C, Brockington I F, Craddock N. Puerperal psychosis: evidence for familiarity of the puerperal trigger. Molecular Psychiatry 4: S26
2000 Doerry U, Brockington I F. Gaze avoidance and baby-gazing. Psychopathology 33: 11-13
2001 Brockington I F, Oates J, George S, Turner D, Vostanis P, Sullivan M, Loh C, Murdoch C A screening questionnaire for mother-infant bonding disorder. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 3: 133-140
2004 Brockington I F. Postpartum psychiatric disorders. Lancet 363: 303-310
2005 Brockington I F. Menstrual psychosis. World Psychiatry 4: 9-17
2005 Brockington I F. Post-abortion psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 8: 53-54
2006 Brockington I F, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 58-59
2006 Brockington I F. Psychosis complicating chorea gravidarum. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 113-114
2006 Brockington I F. Parturient rage. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 223-224
2006 Brockington I F, Fraser C, Wilson D. The postpartum bonding questionnaire: a validation. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 233-242
2006 Brockington I F, Aucamp H M, Fraser C. Severe disorders of the mother-infant relationship: definitions and frequency. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 243-252
2006 Brockington I F, Macdonald E, Wainscott G. Anxiety, obsessions and morbid preoccupations in pregnancy and the puerperium. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 253-263
2006 Brockington I F. Early postpartum syncope, delirium and stupor. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 9: 347-348
2007 Brockington, I F. Parturient delirium and stupor. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 10: 33-34
2007 Brockington I F, Eclamptic psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 10: 87-88
2007 Brockington I F, Infective delirium.. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 10: 129-130
2007 Brockington I F. Cerebral vascular disease as a cause of postpartum psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 10: 177-178
2007 Brockington I F. The present importance of the organic psychoses of pregnancy, parturition and the puerperium. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 10: 87-88
2008 Brockington I F Monthly psychosis starting before the menarche. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 12: 121-122
2008 Brockington I F Monthly psychosis during amenorrhoea. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 12: 187-188
2008 Brockington I F Menstrual psychosis with onset after childbirth. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 12: 265-266
2010 Dhasmana D J, Brockington I F, Roberts A, Postpartum transverse sinus thrombosis presenting as acute psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 13: 365-368
2011 Brockington I, Chandra P, Dubowitz H, Jones D, Moussa S, Nakku J, Quadros Ferre I. WPA guidance on the protection and promotion of mental health in children of persons with severe mental disorders. World Psychiatry 10: 93-102
2011 Brockington I F Maternal rejection of the young child: present status of the clinical syndrome. Psychopathology 44: 320-226
2011 Brockington I F Menstrual psychosis: a bipolar disorder with a link to the hypothalamus. Current Psychiatric Reports 13: 193-197
2011 Brockington I F Childbirth onset specifiers for all psychiatric disorders. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 14: 361
2014 Szabo A, Brockington I F Auto-Caesarean section: a review of 22 cases. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 14: 79-83
2016 Brockington I F Emotional rejection of the infant: status of the concept. Psychopathology 49: 247-260
2016 Brockington I F Citation analysis of puerperal and menstrual psychoses. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 49-53
2016 Brockington I F Non-reproductive triggers of postpartum psychoses. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 55-59
2016 Brockington I F Suicide and filicide in postpartum psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 63-69
2016 Brockington I F Some unusual forms of early onset postpartum psychoses. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 71-76
2016 Brockington I F Donkin psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 77-82
2016 Brockington I F Runge psychosis. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 83-85
2016 Brockington I F Late onset postpartum psychoses. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 87-92
2016 Brockington I F Recurrent episodes associated with childbearing: a matrix of associations. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 93-99
2016 Brockington I F Relapses of bipolar/cycloid psychosis related to childbearing. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 101-105
2016 Brockington I F, Chandra P, Bramante A, Dubow H, Fakher W, Garcia-Esteve LL, Hofberg K, Moussa S, Palacios-Hernandez B, Parfitt Y, Shieh P L The Stafford Interview. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 107-112
2016 Brockington I F, Butterworth R, Glangeaud-Freudenthal N and 66 other authors from 32 nations. An international position paper on mother-infant (perinatal) mental health, with guidelines for clinical practice. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 20: 113-120
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