Issue 1 2022 | Nordic Psychiatrist

Collaboration of Lithuania and Ukraine

In the field on mental health and psychosocial rehabilitation in the areas of Ukraine affected by military actions (2015 – 2019).

Lars Weisæth

Why does it have to happen – first?

Ukraine during, but not after, the run-up to the invasion in the early hours of Thursday 24th February latest, is a case in point of what...

How does support from psychiatric associations work in times of war? Does it help?

Lars Lien

How does support from psychiatric associations work in times of war? Does it help?

The war in Ukraine has set our solidarity on test. On the one hand, we all want to express our sincere support and acknowledge for the...

Children in war – the importance of good parenting

Sverre Varvin

Children in war – the importance of good parenting

Parenting is a practice-oriented meaning making process that aims at securing children’s development in different phases in their...

War in Ukraine is affecting Norwegian mental health

Tove Gundersen

War in Ukraine is affecting Norwegian mental health

News reports roll in around the clock from the war in Ukraine. Throughout Europe people react to harrowing events and tragic human...

Psychiatry and conflict management

Interview with Eliot Sorel MD, global health leader, health systems performance expert.

Interview with Marie Høgh Thøgersen, clinical director of DIGNITYs rehabilitation clinic

Interview with Marie Høgh Thøgersen, clinical director of DIGNITYs rehabilitation clinic

More research is essential for developing effective interventions for vulnerable refugee populations with mental health problems.

Anne Kristine Bergem

A talk with the general

Interview with Jon Reichelt, former Head of the Medical branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Doctors without borders or Médecins sans frontières

Anne Kristine Bergem

Doctors without borders or Médecins sans frontières

Interview with Luwam Bede, Caroline Norderhaug and Shanti Gylseth Sachane.

The role of warfare and genocide in the history of PTSD, important contributions

Hans-Peter Söndergaard

The role of warfare and genocide in the history of PTSD, important contributions

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appeared for the first time in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of nervous and mental...

Svante Bäck

The diagnosis of war

PTSD (1980) and of War at home, COMPLEX PTSD (2018).

Hans-Peter Söndergaard

On the treatment of PTSD

The diagnostic criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder were outlined for the first time in 1980 when DSM-3 was published. The disorder...

Virtual reality as therapeutic modality

Interview with Francesco Strand Franchi, authorized psychologist who has worked 3 years at the Danish Veteran Center.

Arild Steinsholt Jervell

Trauma Therapy at Modum Bad

Modum Bad is a research-based psychiatric hospital in Norway that offers highly specialized inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment for...

Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: state of the art

Joar Øveraas Halvorsen

Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: state of the art

Almost 15 years ago, the Institute of Medicine published a landmark report reviewing clinical trials of psychological and...

Psychotraumatology in Lithuania: history and current challenges

Ramunė Mazaliauskienė

Psychotraumatology in Lithuania: history and current challenges

Interview with prof. Evaldas Kazlauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania).

Racism in Swedish psychiatry - a vast problem surrounded by silence

Natte Hillerberg

Education

Racism in Swedish psychiatry - a vast problem surrounded by silence

In order to work as a psychiatrist it is important to know about diagnostics, symptomatology, neurobiology and pharmacology, which is why...