Maria Larsson is an exceptionally busy and a hard working psychiatrist, and the next chairman to be in the Swedish Psychiatric Association.

“If you want to change the system, start from education” - with these words medical education pioneer professor Fedde Scheele steered...

Some reflections on the site of Norway’s first psychiatric in-patient facility and the place for small personalized institutions.

I do not drink coffee and I never have so I frequently rejected offers for a cup of coffee as a medical student. More experienced...

In an average year, between one in six and one in five people in the adult population will develop a mental illness. Half of these people...

Interview with Prof. Rūta Petrauskaitė.

Ramunė Mazaliauskienė, Chairman of Nordic Psychiatric Associations.

The chief editor asked me to share some personal experiences, so here it goes – reflections by an experienced clinician, but still a...

Brynjólfur graduated from the Medical School of the University of Iceland in 1966 and after two years of service in Iceland he started...

According to the Old Testament, the entire human kind spoke one and the same language. There was much arrogance, however, and a decision...

The following story is an example of how our sessions with a patient may go offtrack without our realizing what is happening until it is...

In the 19th century and at the turn of the 20th century our understandings of the human mind and the clinical potentialities took a leap.

The most famous football match of the Icelandic history of sports took place in Copenhagen in 1967 between Denmark and Iceland. The...

The Corona virus has spread throughout the world at high speed over the last few months. People's life has totally changed. Existence is...

Since the creation of motion picture – some 120 years ago – psychiatry has been used repeatedly as an element or the main theme in movies.

The lock down of social interaction in many countries due to the SARS-Cov-2 epidemic has several psychological and psychiatric implications.

Introduction to Plenary Speakers.

Interview with Hanna Tytärniemi, chair of Organising Committee.

Dear colleague, we are indeed living in different and special times. Never has any of us experienced these new circumstances when our...

Interview with Marie Åsberg, Professor Emeritus KI.