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THE NORDIC PSYCHIATRIST
Connecting minds across cultures and languages
Ever more often, the patient sitting across us has grown up in a different cultural environment, and we lack a common language. However...
Hybrid Identities
It is a complex task to settle successfully in a new country. Revision of your past and reorientation of cultural values may be required...
Transference and countertransference in cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapy
Interview with Tarja Melartin.
Clinical hypnosis – a revitalization of the art of medicine
Interview with Helene Helgeland.
How to Communicate with Someone with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Asperger Syndrome)
Interview with Kristina de Vitte.
Telepsychiatry – mobility through technology
In an average year, between one in six and one in five people in the adult population will develop a mental illness. Half of these people...
Communication in the Time of Pandemic
Interview with Prof. Rūta Petrauskaitė.
Reflections on communicating
The chief editor asked me to share some personal experiences, so here it goes – reflections by an experienced clinician, but still a...
The boring patient. Biography and article
Brynjólfur graduated from the Medical School of the University of Iceland in 1966 and after two years of service in Iceland he started...
Problems of expression in psychiatry
According to the Old Testament, the entire human kind spoke one and the same language. There was much arrogance, however, and a decision...
The "Difficult Patient" vs. the "Difficult Doctor"
The following story is an example of how our sessions with a patient may go offtrack without our realizing what is happening until it is...
Psychoanalysis today
In the 19th century and at the turn of the 20th century our understandings of the human mind and the clinical potentialities took a leap.
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