Editor word: Issue 2 2024

Highlights from the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry (April - August of 2024)

A week in psychiatry with Páll Matthíasson

The Nordic psychiatric associations: reflecting on our legacy and shaping the future

Assisted suicide on psychiatric grounds

When someone wants help to die

Palliative psychiatry in the Nordic countries?

Self-death as a human possibility

Suicide bereaved children and adolescents postvention and clinical implications

Suicide among doctors

Clinical encounters with death

Meeting fear of death and the longing for life as a consultation psychiatrist in a cancer hospital

What do persons with severe mental illness die from?

Death – and the psychiatrist

What is important for the family when a patient dies by suicide?

Assisted suicide or euthanasia. Interview with Merete Nordentoft

Thou shalt not kill. Death penalty and mental illness

Psychiatric euthanasia in the Third Reich

Different views about death

How can we reduce the number of suicides? Shift the focus from risk to intervention!