Discussions about examination as a part of residency in psychiatry have been ongoing for many years now. Residency in adult psychiatry...

Let’s start with the three main components of each profession: knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is quite well-defined what knowledge...

It is hard for people with mental illnesses to get an employment, for various reasons. Here we discuss the paper “Attitudes towards work...

Vilius Ogenskas is a psychiatrist currently working at Jonava primary health care center and Lotus Medica Clinic. In the start of his...

Psychiatry in Latvia has a long and eventful history. A sensitive attitude towards the mentally ill in Riga was formed already during the...

This time, Hans-Peter Mofors gladly agreed to describe his work week.

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

Interview with Professor Danuta Wasserman, President of the World Psychiatric Association.

We are proud to announce that the Latvian Psychiatric Association is hosting the Nordic Congress of Psychiatry for the first time in Riga...

Interview with Christian Törnqvist from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities (SALAR).

The role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia has gained wide attention and research on the association show an...

The development of psychotherapeutic approaches is based on the necessity of searching for relevant answers in the face of the challenges...

Many years ago, during my training as a psychiatrist, I had the luxury of access to one of the largest psychiatric libraries in the world...

Jónas Jónsson and the Medical Organization.

Interview with Merete Nordentoft, Chairperson of Danish Psychiatric Association.

I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay. Ain’t it sad? And still there never seems to be a single penny left for...

It is with great sadness that I inform you that our dear colleague and friend Ola Marstein has passed away.

Every society must decide how much to spend on health care. The decision involves trading off the disposable income of the healthy...

Over recent years there has been a marked growth in the number of psychologists and psychiatrists leaving public health services in...

Can ICD-11 replace DSM-5 as the clinician's diagnostic guide? That is what Mats Adler asks in this overview of the updated diagnosis...