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 (...)

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

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

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

Interview with forensic psychiatry expert Vaiva Martinkienė.

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....

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

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

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

This time, Goda Tikniūtė gladly agreed to describe his work week.

In this unpredictable world the only factors we can control 100% are our own attitudes and behaviour. Nobody can deny us to think or do...