Dr Peter Parry is a child & adolescent psychiatrist working in private practice at Northside Child & Youth Psychiatry. He is affiliated as an associate professor with the University of Queensland and as a visiting senior lecturer with Flinders University in South Australia.
He graduated from Adelaide University in 1983, worked as a medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy, then general practice and palliative care until he commenced psychiatry training in 1990. He has worked as a consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist in both community and inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry services in South Australia, Wales (UK) and Queensland. He was the inpatient service medical unit head at the Adelaide Women's & Children's Hospital 2000-2003 and medical director of CYMHS Campus Services at the Queensland Children's Hospital 2014-2016. He has since worked in community CYMHS and more recently in private practice and locum work.
His research interests are the topics of psychiatric nosology, developmental psychology, Pharma-Medicine conflict of interest issues, child, adolescent & family mental health assessment, adolescent depression syndromes, and lifestyle factors in mental health, and he has published and taught on these topics. In 2021 he completed a doctoral thesis that combined several of these interests, titled: 'Paediatric bipolar disorder': Why did it occur, iatrogenic consequences, and implications for medical ethics and psychiatric nosology.
He is on the editorial board of the Carlat Child Psychiatry Report and is an associate editor with Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Video presentations:
Journal Article: ‘Pediatric Bipolar Disorder’ rates are still lower than claimed: a re-examination of eight epidemiological surveys used by an updated meta-analysis
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2021). ‘Pediatric Bipolar Disorder’ rates are still lower than claimed: a re-examination of eight epidemiological surveys used by an updated meta-analysis. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 9 (1) 21, 21. doi: 10.1186/s40345-021-00225-5
Journal Article: Black box warning did not cause increased suicides
Spielmans, Glen I. and Parry, Peter (2021). Black box warning did not cause increased suicides. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, 3 (2) appi.prcp.20200038, 97-97. doi: 10.1176/appi.prcp.20200038
Journal Article: Duty to warn: antidepressant black box suicidality warning is empirically justified
Spielmans, Glen I., Spence-Sing, Tess and Parry, Peter (2020). Duty to warn: antidepressant black box suicidality warning is empirically justified. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11 18, 18. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00018
Psychopharmacology for children and adolescents: a paradigm shift
Harper, Gordon, Parry, Peter, Ng, Jared and Seshadri, Shekhar (2016). Psychopharmacology for children and adolescents: a paradigm shift. Child and adolescent psychiatry: Asian perspectives. (pp. 285-301) edited by Savita Malhotra and Paramala Santosh. New Delhi, India: Springer India. doi: 10.1007/978-81-322-3619-1_16
Paediatric bipolar disorder – are attachment and trauma factors considered?
Parry, Peter I. (2012). Paediatric bipolar disorder – are attachment and trauma factors considered?. Bipolar Disorder - A Portrait of a Complex Mood Disorder. (pp. 165-190) edited by Jarrett Barnhill. London, United Kingdom: InTech. doi: 10.5772/31999
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2021). ‘Pediatric Bipolar Disorder’ rates are still lower than claimed: a re-examination of eight epidemiological surveys used by an updated meta-analysis. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 9 (1) 21, 21. doi: 10.1186/s40345-021-00225-5
Black box warning did not cause increased suicides
Spielmans, Glen I. and Parry, Peter (2021). Black box warning did not cause increased suicides. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, 3 (2) appi.prcp.20200038, 97-97. doi: 10.1176/appi.prcp.20200038
Duty to warn: antidepressant black box suicidality warning is empirically justified
Spielmans, Glen I., Spence-Sing, Tess and Parry, Peter (2020). Duty to warn: antidepressant black box suicidality warning is empirically justified. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11 18, 18. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00018
Bastiampillai, Tarun, Parry, Peter and Allison, Stephen (2019). Can antipsychotic medication administered for paediatric emotional and behavioural disorders lead to brain atrophy?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (6), 499-500. doi: 10.1177/0004867418797419
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2019). Debate: Bipolar disorder: extremely rare before puberty and antipsychotics cause serious harms – a commentary on Van Meter et al. (2019). Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 24 (1), 92-94. doi: 10.1111/camh.12306
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2019). The geography of a controversial diagnosis: a bibliographic analysis of published academic perspectives on ‘paediatric bipolar disorder’. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24 (3), 135910451983670-545. doi: 10.1177/1359104519836700
Lacunae in the evidence for pediatric bipolar disorder: A response to the ISBD Task Force Report
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2018). Lacunae in the evidence for pediatric bipolar disorder: A response to the ISBD Task Force Report. Bipolar Disorders, 20 (7), 581-582. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12692
Scott, James, G., Gillis, David, Ryan, Alex, E., Hargovan, Hethal, Gundarpi, Nagaraj, McKeon, Gemma, Hatherill, Sean, Newman, Martin P., Parry, Peter, Prain, Kerri, Patterson, Sue, Wong, Richard, C. W., Wilson, Robert, J. and Blum, Stefan (2018). The prevalence and treatment outcomes of antineuronal antibody-positive patients admitted with first episode of psychosis. BJ Psych Open, 4 (2), 69-74. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2018.8
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2018). Measurement issues: 'Paediatric bipolar disorder' rates are lower than claimed - a reexamination of the epidemiological surveys used by a meta-analysis. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 23 (1), 14-22. doi: 10.1111/camh.12231
Paediatric bipolar disorder: Reality or myth?
Parry, Peter I., Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2017). Paediatric bipolar disorder: Reality or myth?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52 (9), 902-902. doi: 10.1177/0004867417746002
Allison, Stephen, Parry, Peter, Roeger, Leigh and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2017). Paediatric bipolar disorder: what are the dangers of treating a hypothetical disorder as a real disease?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51 (1), 98-98. doi: 10.1177/0004867416670016
Reification of the paediatric bipolar hypothesis in the USA
Parry, Peter I., Allison, Stephen and Bastiampillai, Tarun (2015). Reification of the paediatric bipolar hypothesis in the USA. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2 (1), 14-16. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00075-3
Stark discrepancy in pediatric bipolar diagnoses between the US and UK/Australia
Parry, Peter I. and Richards, Louise Marie-Elaine (2014). Stark discrepancy in pediatric bipolar diagnoses between the US and UK/Australia. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53 (11), 1234-1235. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2014.08.012
Parry, Peter (2014). Biologism in psychiatry: a young man's experience of being diagnosed with "pediatric bipolar disorder". Journal of Clinical Medicine, 3 (2), 334-347. doi: 10.3390/jcm3020334
Cognitive deficit and autism spectrum disorders: Prospective diagnosis by array CGH
Nicholl, Jillian, Waters, Wendy, Mulley, John C., Suwalski, Shanna, Brown, Sue, Hull, Yvonne, Barnett, Christopher, Haan, Eric, Thompson, Elizabeth M., Liebelt, Jan, Mcgregor, Lesley, Harbord, Michael G., Entwistle, John, Munt, Chris, White, Dierdre, Chitti, Anthony, Baulderstone, David, Ketteridge, David, Consortium, Array Referral, Friend, Kathryn, Bain, Sharon M., Yu, Sui, Abbott, Kym, Bata, Sonny, Benard, Yolanda, Bethell, J., Bratkovic, Drago, Chan, Yumin, Chong, V. ... Yiu, Mandy (2014). Cognitive deficit and autism spectrum disorders: Prospective diagnosis by array CGH. Pathology, 46 (1), 41-45. doi: 10.1097/PAT.0000000000000043
The autism spectrum disorder 'epidemic': need for biopsychosocial formulation
Basu, Soumya and Parry, Peter (2013). The autism spectrum disorder 'epidemic': need for biopsychosocial formulation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 47 (12), 1116-1118. doi: 10.1177/0004867413509694
On Your Child Does NOT Have Bipolar Disorder
Parry, Peter I. (2012). On Your Child Does NOT Have Bipolar Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51 (11), 1218-1219. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2012.08.017
BRIDGE study warrants critique
Allen, David M., Parry, Peter I., Purssey, Robert, Spielmans, Glen I., Jureidini, Jon, Rosenlicht, Nicholas Z., Healy, David and Feinberg, Irwin (2012). BRIDGE study warrants critique. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69 (6), 643-644. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2012.118
Psychotropic marketing practices and problems implications for DSM-5
Raven, Melissa and Parry, Peter (2012). Psychotropic marketing practices and problems implications for DSM-5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200 (6), 512-516. doi: 10.1097/nmd.0b013e318257c6c7
Labels and kids: context needed
PARRY, PETER I. (2012). Labels and kids: context needed. Clinical Psychiatry News, 40 (3), 12-13. doi: 10.1016/s0270-6644(12)70078-4
Pediatric bipolar disorder in an era of "mindless psychiatry"
Parry, Peter I. and Levin, Edmund C. (2012). Pediatric bipolar disorder in an era of "mindless psychiatry". Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 13 (1), 51-68. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2011.597826
Parry, Peter (2011). Your child does not have bipolar disorder: how bad science and good public relations created the diagnosis (childhood in America). Australasian Psychiatry, 19 (5), 446-447. doi: 10.3109/10398562.2011.608222
Tsai, Alexander C., Rosenlicht, Nicholas Z., Jureidini, Jon N., Parry, Peter I., Spielmans, Glen I. and Healy, David (2011). Aripiprazole in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder: a critical review of the evidence and its dissemination into the scientific literature. PLoS Medicine, 8 (5) e1000434, e1000434. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000434
Bipolar disorder supplement needed broader perspective
Jureidini, Jon N., Parry, Peter I., Houen, Catherine M. and Battersby, Malcolm W. (2011). Bipolar disorder supplement needed broader perspective. Medical Journal of Australia, 194 (6), 326-326. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb02992.x
Conflict of interest as a possible factor in the rise of pediatric bipolar disorder
Levin, Edmund C. and Parry, Peter I. (2011). Conflict of interest as a possible factor in the rise of pediatric bipolar disorder. Adolescent Psychiatry, 1 (1), 61-66. doi: 10.2174/2210676611101010061
Detached from attachment: neurobiology and phenomenology have a human face
Dignam, Paul, Parry, Peter and Berk, Michael (2010). Detached from attachment: neurobiology and phenomenology have a human face. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 22 (4), 202-206. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-5215.2010.00478.x
Spielmans, Glen I. and Parry, Peter I. (2010). Reply to Jacobs. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7 (3), 289-290. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9241-7
Commercial and non-commercial 'championing' of medications
Parry, Peter (2010). Commercial and non-commercial 'championing' of medications. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44 (6), 585-585. doi: 10.3109/00048671003646777
From evidence-based medicine to marketing-based medicine: evidence from internal industry documents
Spielmans, Glen I. and Parry, Peter I. (2010). From evidence-based medicine to marketing-based medicine: evidence from internal industry documents. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7 (1), 13-29. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9208-8
Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM-IV
Parry, Peter I. (2009). Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM-IV. Medical Journal of Australia, 191 (11-12), 674-676. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03377.x
The paediatric bipolar hypothesis: the view from Australia and New Zealand
Parry, Peter, Furber, Gareth and Allison, Stephen (2009). The paediatric bipolar hypothesis: the view from Australia and New Zealand. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 14 (3), 140-147. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2008.00505.x
Parry, Peter and Allison, Stephen (2008). Paediatric bipolar disorder. Australasian Psychiatry, 16 (4), 293-293. doi: 10.1080/10398560802193161
Paediatric bipolar disorder is a controversial diagnosis
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen, Jureidini, Jon, McEvoy, Prue, Ward, Steven, Callary, John, Powrie, Ros, Hein, Simon, Swift, Georgie, Amos, Jackie, Ashforth, Peter, Philp, Margaret, Wells, Ben, Dignam, Paul and Tregenza, Sally (2008). Paediatric bipolar disorder is a controversial diagnosis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42 (1), 91-91.
Paediatric bipolar disorder is a controversial diagnosis [3]
Parry, Peter, Allison, Stephen, Jureidini, Jon, Parry, Peter, McEvoy, Prue, Ward, Steven, Callary, John, Powrie, Ros, Hein, Simon, Swift, Georgie, Amos, Jackie, Ashforth, Peter, Philp, Margaret, Wells, Ben, Dignam, Paul and Tregenza, Sally (2008). Paediatric bipolar disorder is a controversial diagnosis [3]. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42 (1). doi: 10.1080/00048670701732632
Pre-pubertal paediatric bipolar disorder: a controversy from America
Parry, Peter and Allison, Stephen (2008). Pre-pubertal paediatric bipolar disorder: a controversy from America. Australasian Psychiatry, 16 (2), 80-84. doi: 10.1080/10398560701829592
Parry, PIH (1999). A simple theory for the genesis of the belief in an association between the full moon and exacerbation of psychiatric disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33 (3), 445-446. doi: 10.1080/0004867990122
Parry, Peter (2019). 2 A history of the ‘paediatric bipolar disorder’ epidemic: driving forces, iatrogenic consequences and lessons for psychiatric nosology. Preventing Overdiagnosis, Sydney, Australia, December 2019. London, United Kingdom: BMJ Publishing Group. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2019-pod.16
Does the ISBD task force report overestimate the prevalence of pediatric bipolar disorder?
Parry, P., Allison, S. and Bastiampillai, T. (2019). Does the ISBD task force report overestimate the prevalence of pediatric bipolar disorder?. 21st Annual ISBD Conference on Global Advances in Bipolar Disorder and Depression, Sydney, Australia, 20-23 March , 2019. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Benefits, harms and ethical implications of sponsored education in psychiatry
Menkes, D., Grundy, Q., Every-Palmer, S., Bates, A., Parry, P., Battersby, M., Monasterio, E., Rae, A., Farquhar, C., Jureidini, J., Jarvis, G., Souter, H., Arroll, B., Glue, P. and Newton-Howes, G. (2018). Benefits, harms and ethical implications of sponsored education in psychiatry. RANZCP 2018 Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 – 17 May 2018. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/0004867418764980
The prevalence of autoimmune encephalitis in patients presenting with first-episode psychosis
Scott, J. G., Gillis, D., Hargovan, H., Gundarpi, N., Ryan, A., Prain, K., Newman, M., Wong R, R., Parry, P. and Blum, S. (2016). The prevalence of autoimmune encephalitis in patients presenting with first-episode psychosis. RANZCP 2016 Congress, Hong Kong, 8-12 May 2016. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.