Our latest issue focused on Uncertainty, an experience we all share regarding the future, though we manage it in different ways. Death (...)

The Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, formerly “Nordisk Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift”, is an international journal that publishes excellent (...)

This time, Páll Matthíasson gladly agreed to describe his work week.

The Nordic Psychiatric Association (NPA) constitutes a significant body for psychiatric professionals in the Nordic region, playing an (...)

Do we, as humans, have the right to decide when to end our own lives? Treating suicidal patients is a crucial responsibility for (...)

Interview with Solveig Klæbo Reitan and Ida Øygard Haavardsholm.

What should society reasonably expect from mental health care? How can we identify undertreatment and overtreatment? Moreover, can (...)

The perils of ‘zero vision of suicide’ from an existential and a non-pathological perspective.

Few more traumatic experiences than losing a parent to suicide exist. In the aftermath, we all need to muster to help the child (...)

Suicide rates among doctors have declined over time but remain higher than those of other academics.

During medical school and internship, we meet with death in all forms and shapes. Death, as a dying or deceased body, as mourning (...)

I work as a consultation psychiatrist in a large cancer hospital in Norway. My work varies on a continuum from having conversations (...)

People with mental illness have significantly higher mortality rates compared to the general population. The elevated mortality spans (...)

Death can represent the culmination of a longer – dying - process, often the case in the somatic part of the clinic, but also in (...)

In psychiatric wards, death by suicide is not unusual. I have been involved in the aftermath of several such cases. Based on my (...)

The Danish Council on Ethics published in 2023 a report about euthanasia. The conclusion was that 16 out of the 17 members found that (...)

The issue of capital punishment has been a subject of considerable controversy both regarding its effectiveness as a deterrent and the (...)

The fact that there was no new beginning in 1945 was partly due to the lack of a manageable alternative psychiatric approach. This (...)

Death is an inseparable part of human existence. Everyone claims to know that they are mortal although many behave as if life has no end.

As a psychiatrist, assessing the risk of suicide is a constant part of professional life. Documenting these considerations in the (...)