Editor word: Issue 1 2022
When I started writing this issue's editorial, I was on my way home from the meeting, where we planned the content for this issue...
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THE NORDIC PSYCHIATRIST
Statements on the situation in Ukraine from NPA, WPA and EPA
The Nordic Psychiatric Association, a joint organization of the national psychiatric associations of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland...
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).
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?
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
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
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
More research is essential for developing effective interventions for vulnerable refugee populations with mental health problems.
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
Interview with Luwam Bede, Caroline Norderhaug and Shanti Gylseth Sachane.
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...
The diagnosis of war
PTSD (1980) and of War at home, COMPLEX PTSD (2018).
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.
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
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
Interview with prof. Evaldas Kazlauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania).
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...
A week in psychiatry with Marianne Kastrup
This time, Marianne Kastrup gladly agreed to describe her work week. She had several plans how she would spend her time after...
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