Pilgrim, David and McCranie, A (2013) Recovery and mental health: a critical sociological account. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780230291386
Pilgrim, David (2012) The British welfare state and mental health problems: the continuing relevance of the work of Claus Offe. Sociology Of Health & Illness, 34 (7). pp. 1070-1084. ISSN 0141-9889
Pilgrim, David and Carey, Tim (2012) Improving access to psychological therapies: an account of recent policy aspirations in the UK and Australia. Advances in Mental Health, 10 (2). pp. 117-126. ISSN 1837-4905
Pilgrim, David (2012) Final lessons from the Mental Health Act Commission for Enagland and Wales: the limits of legalism - plus - safeguards. Journal of Social Policy, 41 (1). pp. 61-81. ISSN ISSN paper: 0047-2794, ISSN online: 1469-7823
Pilgrim, David and Tomasini, F (2012) On being unreasonable in modern society: are mental health problems special? Disability and Society, 26 . ISSN 0968-7599
Pilgrim, David, Champion, F, Hutschemaekers, G, Garnoussi, N and Van Dijk, F (2012) Variations in the development of psychological therapy in three European countries. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 32 (1/2). ISSN 0144-333X
Brooks, Helen, Pilgrim, David and Rogers, Anne (2011) Innovation in mental health services: what are the key components of success? Implementation Science, 6 (120).
Brown, Patrick, Alaszewski, Andy, Pilgrim, David and Calnan, Michael (2011) The quality of interaction between health service managers and frontline clinicians: a question of trust. Public Money & Management, 31 (1). pp. 43-50. ISSN Print: 0954-0962, Online: 1467-9302
Pilgrim, David (2011) The child abuse crisis in the Catholic church: international, national and personal policy aspects. Policy and Politics, 39 (3). pp. 309-324. ISSN ISSN 0305 5736. Online ISSN: 1470-8442
Pilgrim, David, Tomasini, Floris Jan-willem and Vassilev, Ivaylo (2010) Examining Trust in Health Care: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230537910
Pilgrim, David and Rogers, A (2010) A sociology of mental health and illness, 4th edition. Open University Press. ISBN 978-0335236657
Carey, Timothy A and Pilgrim, David (2010) Diagnosis and formulation: what should we tell the students? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 17 (6). pp. 447-454. ISSN 1099-0879
Pilgrim, David (2010) British clinical psychology and society. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 9 (2). pp. 8-12. ISSN 1475-7257
Pilgrim, David and Carey, Timothy A (2010) Contested professional rationales for the assessment of mental health problems: can social theories help? Social Theory and Health, 8 . pp. 309-325.
Worsley, Aidan Richard clive ORCID: 0000-0002-3925-3297, Richardson Foster, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-1578, Spandler, Helen ORCID: 0000-0002-0970-5141 and Pilgrim, David (2010) Research report examining the provision on newly qualified social workers in the north west. Other. Skills for Care.
Pilgrim, David (2009) 'Recovery' in mental health policy: scratching the surface without ethnography. Journal of Social Work Practice, 23 (4). pp. 475-487. ISSN 0265-0533
Pilgrim, David (2009) Key concepts in mental health, 2nd edition. SAGE Key Concepts . SAGE. ISBN 978-1848608801
Pilgrim, David (2009) A straight talking introduction to psychological treatments for mental health problems. Straight Talking Introductions . PCCS Books, Ross on Wye. ISBN 978-1906254162
Pilgrim, David and Ramon, Shulamit (2009) English mental health policy under New Labour. Policy & Politics https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/policy_politics, 37 (2). pp. 273-288. ISSN 0305-5736
Pilgrim, David (2009) Abnormal psychology: unresolved ontological and epistemological contestation. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 10 (2). pp. 11-21. ISSN 1469-283X
Pilgrim, David (2009) Rhetorical aspects of the contention about cognitive behavioural therapy. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 11 (2). pp. 37-55. ISSN 1469283X
Pilgrim, David and Rogers, Anne (2009) Survival and its discontents: the case of British psychiatry. Sociology Of Health & Illness, 31 (7). pp. 947-961. ISSN 01419889
Pilgrim, David, Rogers, A. and Bentall, R. (2009) The centrality of personal relationships in the creation and amelioration of mental health problems: the current interdisciplinary case. Health: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of Health Illness and Medicine, 13 (2). pp. 235-254. ISSN 1363-4593
Pilgrim, David (2008) The eugenic legacy in psychology and psychiatry. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 54 (3). pp. 272-284.
Pilgrim, David (2008) `Recovery' and current mental health policy. Chronic Illness, 4 (4). pp. 295-204. ISSN 1742-3953
Pilgrim, David, Kinderman, P and Tai, S (2008) Taking stock of the Biopsychosocial model in ‘mental health care’. Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, 1 (2). pp. 1-39. ISSN 1756-7483
Rogers, A, Pilgrim, David, Brennan, S, Sulaiman, I, Watson, G and Chew-Graham, C (2007) Prescribing benzodiazepines in general practice: a new view of an old problem. Health, 11 . pp. 181-198. ISSN 1363-4593
Pilgrim, David and Vassilev, I (2007) Risk, trust and mental health services. Journal of Mental Health, 16 (3). pp. 347-357. ISSN ISSN 0963-8237 print / ISSN 1360-0567 online
Pilgrim, David and Sheaff, R (2006) Can learning organisations survive in the newer NHS? Implementation Science, 1 (27).
Pilgrim, David and Dowrick, C (2006) From a diagnostic-therapeutic to a social-existential response to ‘depression’. Journal of Public Mental Health, 5 (2). pp. 6-12.
Pilgrim, D (2005) Defining mental disorder: tautology in the service of sanity in British mental health legislation. Journal of Mental Health, 14 (5). pp. 435-443.
Pilgrim, David (2005) Key Concepts in Mental Health. SAGE, London. ISBN 978-1412907774
Pilgrim, David and Rogers, A (2005) A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd Edition). ISBN-10: 033521584X ISBN-13: 978-0335215843 . Open University Press, Buckingham.
Pilgrim, David and Rogers, A (2005) The troubled relationship between Psychiatry and Sociology. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 51 (3). pp. 228-241.
Cheshire, K and Pilgrim, David (2004) A Short Introduction to Clinical Psychology. SAGE, London. ISBN 978-0761947691
Pilgrim, David and Rogers, A (2003) Mental disorder and violence: an empirical picture in context. Journal of Mental Health, 12 (1). pp. 7-18.
Pilgrim, David (2002) The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry: past, present and future? Journal of Mental Health, 11 (6). pp. 585-594.
Pilgrim, David (2001) The hegemony of cognitive-behaviour therapy in modern mental health care. Health Sociology Review, 20 (2). pp. 120-132. ISSN 1446-1242
Pilgrim, David (2001) Disordered personalities and disordered concepts. Journal of Mental Health, 10 (3). pp. 253-265.
Rogers, A and Pilgrim, David (2001) Mental Health Policy in Britain (2nd Edition). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 978-0333947937
Pilgrim, David (1999) Sociology of Mental Health and Illness. Open University Press. ISBN ISBN-10: 0335203477 ISBN-13: 978-0335203475