Interview with Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Icelandic scholar and politician.

In March 2025 I flew to Nuuk - the capital of Greenland - to work as a consultant for 3 weeks. President Trump had once again, in the State of Union speech, threatened to take over Greenland. The atmosphere amongst Greenlanders (Inuit) was tense in the quiet and gentle way that is so typical for the mindset of the population. But they are worried with good reason about the unpredictability of world affairs and the sudden focus of interest.

Interview with Professor Eugenijus Laurinaitis.

Autistic people are often said to lack social skills and have deficits in pragmatic language, leading them to misunderstand non-autistic people. Recent research points to a more complicated picture: the double empathy problem. The double empathy problem is a concept that people of different neurotypes struggle to empathise with each other. It suggests that it's not just autistic people who struggle to understand non-autistic people but also the other way around (Milton, Gurbu

Specialist competence should be grounded in a knowledge of the principles and foundations, along with a basic understanding of the historical development of the field, and not only detailed memorization of guidelines and diagnostic manuals. In the field of psychiatry, a lack of understanding of history and the progress that has been made means that one may not appreciate how far we have come. Although the history of modern psychiatry is not very long, it is rife with examples

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

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Interview with Solveig Klæbo Reitan and Ida Øygard Haavardsholm.

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

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

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