Matthew R Broome
Biographic Data
| ID | 343084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew R Broome |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew R |
| FAMILY NAME | Broome |
| SIGNATURE | BROOME M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6963-8884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
Jaspers identifies empathic understanding as an essential tool for grasping not the mere psychic content of the condition at hand, but the lived experience of the patient. This method then serves as the basis for the phenomenological investigation into the psychiatric condition known as ‘Phenomenological Psychopathology’. In recent years, scholars in the field of phenomenological psychopathology have attempted to refine the concept of empathic un…
School Disruption and Classroom Climate on Teachers’ Burnout and Wellbeing
Teachers with high levels of burnout and reduced levels of wellbeing are twice as likely to leave the teaching profession. For those that stay, it can result in strained relationships with their pupils and a difficulty to effectively manage classroom behavior. This study focused on the emotional strain felt by teachers during periods of educational disruption and how his varied according to school size, school‐level disadvantage and levels of pup…
Trust, responding to disclosure and barriers to talking: Children’s lived experiences of bullying in UK primary schools
The experience of being bullied in primary school is one of the most modifiable risk factors for poor mental health in children and young people, with the potential to prevent both short- and long-term negative mental and physical health, as well as social outcomes. Understanding and acting to reduce the occurrence of bullying and supporting students and their parents in seeking help when it does occur should be a public health priority. To suppo…
Compassion, empathy and altruism in the context of borderline personality disorder: A conceptual narrative review
This narrative review examines compassion, empathy and altruism in the context of borderline personality disorder (BPD), arguing that difficulties in these domains, often described in clinical literature as empathic or relational ‘deficits’, are better understood as psychosocial responses to trauma, invalidation and relational adversity. Drawing from personality psychology, clinical research and lived-experience scholarship, the review explores h…
Can an algorithm become delusional? Evaluating ontological commitments and methodology of computational psychiatry
The computational approach to psychiatric disorders, including delusions, promises explanation and treatment. Here, we argue that an information processing approach might be misleading to understand psychopathology and requires further refinement. We explore the claim of computational psychiatry being a bridge between phenomenology and physiology while focussing on the ontological commitments and corresponding methodology computational psychiatry…
“Minimal self” locked into a model: Exploring the prospect of formalizing intentionality in schizophrenia
Computational psychiatry is a quickly evolving discipline that aims to understand psychopathology in terms of computational, hence algorithmic processes. While cognitive phenomena, especially beliefs or ways of “reasoning”, can more easily be formalized, meaning re-described in mathematical terms and then entered computational models, there is speculation as to whether phenomenology might be formalizable too. In other words, there are speculation…
The future of phenomenological psychopathology
The ways in which we attempt to make sense of psychiatric illness have been slow to progress. Over the last several decades, clinicians and researchers have inherited one-size-fits-all diagnostic f
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence
BACKGROUND: Here, we (a) examined the trajectories of night-time sleep duration, bedtime and midpoint of night-time sleep (MPS) from infancy to adolescence, and (b) explored perinatal risk factors for persistent poor sleep health. METHODS: This study used data from 12,962 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Parent or self-reported night-time sleep duration, bedtime and wake-up time were collected from que…
Making psychiatry moral again: The role of psychiatry in patient moral development
Psychiatric involvement in patient morality is controversial. If psychiatrists are tasked with shaping patient morality, the coercive potential of psychiatry is increased, treatment may be unfairly administered on the basis of patients’ moral beliefs rather than medical need, moral disputes could damage the therapeutic relationship and, in any case, we are often uncertain or conflicted about what is morally right. Yet, there is also a strong case…
Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health
Bullying is a modifiable risk factor for poor mental health across childhood and adolescence. It is also socially patterned, with increased prevalence rates in more disadvantaged settings. The current study aimed to better understand whether school-level disadvantage is associated with different types of bullying roles, and whether it is a moderator in the association between bullying and children’s mental health. Cross-sectional data were used f…
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working
This article investigates the challenges of navigating the adoption of remote and hybrid working for large organizations with diverse functions. Focus groups with employees of the UK business of a multinational organization identify conceptual contributions to the sociology of work and employment and empirical findings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that inform future policy and practice. Location-based flexible working has a potential u…
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance
When young people seek support from mental health care practitioners, the encounters may affect the young people’s sense of self, and in particular undermine their sense of agency. For this study, an interdisciplinary team of academics and young people collaboratively analysed video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency services. They identified five communication techniques that practitioners c…
The UK stand together trial: Protocol for a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of KiVa to reduce bullying in primary schools
Trials ISRCTN 12300853 Date assigned 11/02/2020
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of Covid-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs
A good therapeutic relationship in mental health services is a predictor of positive clinical outcomes for people who seek help for distressing experiences, such as voice hearing and paranoia. One factor that may affect the quality of the therapeutic relationship and raises further ethical issues is the impact of the clinical encounter on users’ sense of self, and in particular on their sense of agency. In the paper, we discuss some of the reason…
The drawbacks of Information and Communication Technologies: Interplay and psychopathological risk of nomophobia and cyber-bullying, results from the bullying and youth mental health Naples study (BYM…
Attempting to disentangle the relationship between impulsivity and longitudinal self-harm: Epidemiological analysis of UK household survey data
BACKGROUND: Impulsivity may be an important risk factor in terms of future self-harm. However, the extent of this, whether it may relate to self-harm that is new in onset and/or repetition of self-harm, and the detail of any interaction with mood instability (MI) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) requires detailed examination. AIMS: We used the 2000 Adult Psychiatry Morbidity Survey and an 18-month follow-up data to test hypotheses relating to the…
Psychotic-like experiences in help-seeking adolescents: Dimensional exploration and association with different forms of bullying victimization – A developmental social psychiatry perspective
BACKGROUND: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are common in the general population and increase the risk of psychotic disorders. Adolescents are a high-risk group of this condition. Stressful events, such as bullying, have a role in the onset of PLEs. This study has several aims: (1) to assess PLEs in adolescents seeking help from a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, (2) to assess the association of PLEs with specific bullying victimizat…
There’s the record, closed and final’: Rough for Theatre II as Psychiatric Encounter
A co-authored collaboration between a theatre practitioner and a clinical psychiatrist, this paper will examine Rough for Theatre II (RFTII) and Beckett's demonstration of the way records are used to understand the human subject. Using Beckett's play to explore interdisciplinary issues of embodiment and diagnosis, the authors will present a dialogue that makes use of the 'best sources' in precisely the same manner as the play's protagonists. One …
Autistic Traits in an Internet Sample of Gender Variant UK Adults
Recent studies have reported a high prevalence of autistic spectrum conditions (ASCs) in adults with gender dysphoria (GD) versus the general population (Jones et al., 2012 Fombonne, E. (2009). Epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders. Pediatric Research, 65, 591–598. doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31819e7203[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Pasterski, Gilligan, & Curtis, 2014). This study utilized snowball sampling to collect data on gender identi…
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working
This article investigates the challenges of navigating the adoption of remote and hybrid working for large organizations with diverse functions. Focus groups with employees of the UK business of a multinational organization identify conceptual contributions to the sociology of work and employment and empirical findings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that inform future policy and practice. Location-based flexible working has a potential u…
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs
A good therapeutic relationship in mental health services is a predictor of positive clinical outcomes for people who seek help for distressing experiences, such as voice hearing and paranoia. One factor that may affect the quality of the therapeutic relationship and raises further ethical issues is the impact of the clinical encounter on users’ sense of self, and in particular on their sense of agency. In the paper, we discuss some of the reason…
Autistic Traits in an Internet Sample of Gender Variant UK Adults
Recent studies have reported a high prevalence of autistic spectrum conditions (ASCs) in adults with gender dysphoria (GD) versus the general population (Jones et al., 2012 Fombonne, E. (2009). Epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders. Pediatric Research, 65, 591–598. doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31819e7203[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Pasterski, Gilligan, & Curtis, 2014). This study utilized snowball sampling to collect data on gender identi…
Autistic Traits in an Internet Sample of Gender Variant UK Adults
Recent studies have reported a high prevalence of autistic spectrum conditions (ASCs) in adults with gender dysphoria (GD) versus the general population (Jones et al., 2012 Fombonne, E. (2009). Epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders. Pediatric Research, 65, 591–598. doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31819e7203[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Pasterski, Gilligan, & Curtis, 2014). This study utilized snowball sampling to collect data on gender identi…
There’s the record, closed and final’: Rough for Theatre II as Psychiatric Encounter
A co-authored collaboration between a theatre practitioner and a clinical psychiatrist, this paper will examine Rough for Theatre II (RFTII) and Beckett's demonstration of the way records are used to understand the human subject. Using Beckett's play to explore interdisciplinary issues of embodiment and diagnosis, the authors will present a dialogue that makes use of the 'best sources' in precisely the same manner as the play's protagonists. One …
Psychotic-like experiences in help-seeking adolescents: Dimensional exploration and association with different forms of bullying victimization – A developmental social psychiatry perspective
BACKGROUND: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are common in the general population and increase the risk of psychotic disorders. Adolescents are a high-risk group of this condition. Stressful events, such as bullying, have a role in the onset of PLEs. This study has several aims: (1) to assess PLEs in adolescents seeking help from a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, (2) to assess the association of PLEs with specific bullying victimizat…
Attempting to disentangle the relationship between impulsivity and longitudinal self-harm: Epidemiological analysis of UK household survey data
BACKGROUND: Impulsivity may be an important risk factor in terms of future self-harm. However, the extent of this, whether it may relate to self-harm that is new in onset and/or repetition of self-harm, and the detail of any interaction with mood instability (MI) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) requires detailed examination. AIMS: We used the 2000 Adult Psychiatry Morbidity Survey and an 18-month follow-up data to test hypotheses relating to the…
The drawbacks of Information and Communication Technologies: Interplay and psychopathological risk of nomophobia and cyber-bullying, results from the bullying and youth mental health Naples study (BYM…
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of Covid-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs
A good therapeutic relationship in mental health services is a predictor of positive clinical outcomes for people who seek help for distressing experiences, such as voice hearing and paranoia. One factor that may affect the quality of the therapeutic relationship and raises further ethical issues is the impact of the clinical encounter on users’ sense of self, and in particular on their sense of agency. In the paper, we discuss some of the reason…
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance
When young people seek support from mental health care practitioners, the encounters may affect the young people’s sense of self, and in particular undermine their sense of agency. For this study, an interdisciplinary team of academics and young people collaboratively analysed video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency services. They identified five communication techniques that practitioners c…
The UK stand together trial: Protocol for a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of KiVa to reduce bullying in primary schools
Trials ISRCTN 12300853 Date assigned 11/02/2020
Making psychiatry moral again: The role of psychiatry in patient moral development
Psychiatric involvement in patient morality is controversial. If psychiatrists are tasked with shaping patient morality, the coercive potential of psychiatry is increased, treatment may be unfairly administered on the basis of patients’ moral beliefs rather than medical need, moral disputes could damage the therapeutic relationship and, in any case, we are often uncertain or conflicted about what is morally right. Yet, there is also a strong case…
Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health
Bullying is a modifiable risk factor for poor mental health across childhood and adolescence. It is also socially patterned, with increased prevalence rates in more disadvantaged settings. The current study aimed to better understand whether school-level disadvantage is associated with different types of bullying roles, and whether it is a moderator in the association between bullying and children’s mental health. Cross-sectional data were used f…
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working
This article investigates the challenges of navigating the adoption of remote and hybrid working for large organizations with diverse functions. Focus groups with employees of the UK business of a multinational organization identify conceptual contributions to the sociology of work and employment and empirical findings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that inform future policy and practice. Location-based flexible working has a potential u…
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health
Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence
BACKGROUND: Here, we (a) examined the trajectories of night-time sleep duration, bedtime and midpoint of night-time sleep (MPS) from infancy to adolescence, and (b) explored perinatal risk factors for persistent poor sleep health. METHODS: This study used data from 12,962 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Parent or self-reported night-time sleep duration, bedtime and wake-up time were collected from que…
Can an algorithm become delusional? Evaluating ontological commitments and methodology of computational psychiatry
The computational approach to psychiatric disorders, including delusions, promises explanation and treatment. Here, we argue that an information processing approach might be misleading to understand psychopathology and requires further refinement. We explore the claim of computational psychiatry being a bridge between phenomenology and physiology while focussing on the ontological commitments and corresponding methodology computational psychiatry…
“Minimal self” locked into a model: Exploring the prospect of formalizing intentionality in schizophrenia
Computational psychiatry is a quickly evolving discipline that aims to understand psychopathology in terms of computational, hence algorithmic processes. While cognitive phenomena, especially beliefs or ways of “reasoning”, can more easily be formalized, meaning re-described in mathematical terms and then entered computational models, there is speculation as to whether phenomenology might be formalizable too. In other words, there are speculation…
The future of phenomenological psychopathology
The ways in which we attempt to make sense of psychiatric illness have been slow to progress. Over the last several decades, clinicians and researchers have inherited one-size-fits-all diagnostic f
The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
Jaspers identifies empathic understanding as an essential tool for grasping not the mere psychic content of the condition at hand, but the lived experience of the patient. This method then serves as the basis for the phenomenological investigation into the psychiatric condition known as ‘Phenomenological Psychopathology’. In recent years, scholars in the field of phenomenological psychopathology have attempted to refine the concept of empathic un…
School Disruption and Classroom Climate on Teachers’ Burnout and Wellbeing
Teachers with high levels of burnout and reduced levels of wellbeing are twice as likely to leave the teaching profession. For those that stay, it can result in strained relationships with their pupils and a difficulty to effectively manage classroom behavior. This study focused on the emotional strain felt by teachers during periods of educational disruption and how his varied according to school size, school‐level disadvantage and levels of pup…
Trust, responding to disclosure and barriers to talking: Children’s lived experiences of bullying in UK primary schools
The experience of being bullied in primary school is one of the most modifiable risk factors for poor mental health in children and young people, with the potential to prevent both short- and long-term negative mental and physical health, as well as social outcomes. Understanding and acting to reduce the occurrence of bullying and supporting students and their parents in seeking help when it does occur should be a public health priority. To suppo…
Compassion, empathy and altruism in the context of borderline personality disorder: A conceptual narrative review
This narrative review examines compassion, empathy and altruism in the context of borderline personality disorder (BPD), arguing that difficulties in these domains, often described in clinical literature as empathic or relational ‘deficits’, are better understood as psychosocial responses to trauma, invalidation and relational adversity. Drawing from personality psychology, clinical research and lived-experience scholarship, the review explores h…
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (7 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)