Issue 2 2024 | The Nordic Psychiatrist

Issue 2 2024

Main theme:
Death in psychiatry

Editorials

Week in psychiatry

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

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Editor word: Issue 2 2024

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

Hans-Peter Mofors

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

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

Merete Nordentoft

April - August of 2024

The Nordic Psychiatrist is published by the Nordic Psychiatric Associations (NPA). The NPA consists of the following national associations:

Death in psychiatry

Main theme: Death in psychiatry

Assisted suicide on psychiatric grounds

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

Erik Smedler

When someone wants help to die

Interview with Solveig Klæbo Reitan and Ida Øygard Haavardsholm.

Anne Kristine Bergem

Palliative psychiatry in the Nordic countries?

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

Carl Tollef Solberg

Self-death as a human possibility

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

Farhan Shah

Suicide bereaved children and adolescents postvention and clinical implications

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

Tine K. Grimholt

Suicide among doctors

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

Erlend Hem

Clinical encounters with death

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

Ingvild Strand Hovland

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

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

Tone Skaali

What do persons with severe mental illness die from?

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

Anne Høye

Death – and the psychiatrist

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

Kjetil Moen

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

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

Ingebrigt Røen

Assisted suicide or euthanasia. Interview with Merete Nordentoft

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

Marianne Kastrup

Thou shalt not kill. Death penalty and mental illness

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

Marianne Kastrup

Psychiatric euthanasia in the Third Reich

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

Michael von Cranach

Different views about death

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.

Óttar Gudmundsson

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

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

Christian Rück

Death theme in existential therapy

Existentialism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the unique, unrepeatable nature of human existence, which (...)

Goda Tikniūtė

50 Shades of Grief. Interview with Giedrė Žalytė

Death is merely a fact of human existence, a background reality until it is encountered and experienced personally. It feels like such (...)

Goda Tikniūtė

Lethal violence and psychiatric disorders – a short outlook and clinical implications

Professionals in psychiatric settings are accustomed to questions about violence. It is not an uncommon perception in the general (...)

Hanna Edberg

Complex forensic psychiatric and psychological autopsies in suicide cases

Interview with forensic psychiatry expert Vaiva Martinkienė.

Greta Murauskienė

Death is not the end. How can we make sense of death?

Theme: Death in Psychiatry We face premature death. A child is killed by their father. A son kills his mother. A child murders a child....

Gunnar Hersveinn

Psychiatry in the far North: a psychiatrist’s reflections from Greenland

This article chronicles my experience as a psychiatrist in Greenland - from digital consultations and “coastal visits” to confronting (...)

Goran Mijaljica

Surviving death in psychiatry

Interview with dr. Ferdinand Jónsson, an Icelandic psychiatrist and well-known poet.

Páll Matthíasson

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A week in psychiatry with Páll Matthíasson

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