` Kroll, J., Sines, L., Martin, K., et al., Borderline personality disorder: Construct validity of the concept.  Archives of General Psychiatry 1981; 38: 1021-1026.

` Kroll, J., Pyle, R., Zander, J., Martin, K., et al., Borderline personality disorder:  Interrater reliability of the Gunderson Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIBS), Schizophrenia Bulletin 1981; 7:269-272.

For the above research project I conducted 100 diagnostic interviews with consecutive patient admissions to an acute care psychiatric ward.

 

In my first career as a journalist, features I wrote included subjects such as:

` a prisoner’s first days after release (The Sunday Times Magazine)

` the crew of Britain’s nuclear bombers (The Daily Telegraph Magazine)

` London’s bombsite alcoholics (The Daily Telegraph Magazine)

` the life of a Glasgow youth gang (The Observer Magazine).