The question about the use and about correct and safe use of psychotropic medication during the pregnancy is crucial in care of mothers...

Pregnancy - and the postpartum period is a vulnerable time. Around 1 in 5 pregnant women will have a mental health problem during their...

A description of the perinatal psychiatric work in a consultation-liaison psychiatric department in Sweden.

Becoming a mother is a huge transition in a woman’s life, and pregnancy and the postpartum period is characterized by emotional...

As a young woman, Alistis Skalkidou spent the last two years of high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She then returned to Greece...

In 2016 I accidentally fell into a black hole. I was 29 years old, healthy and happy. My husband and I were trotting up and down the...

I have learned a lot and acquired knowledge I would not have been without, but the price I have paid has been high. What can we learn...

About one in five mothers and one in ten fathers has mental health problems during the perinatal period, that is the first 1001 days of...

Results from a cohort of offspring of parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

esearchers and practitioners from a variety of fields grapple with understanding maternal infanticide. As current cultures construct...

Pregnancy is a significant transitional period in a woman’s life bringing about numerous physical, physiological, social, and...

How is it to be a mother if you have a mental disorder? What challenges can one meet? In this article we discuss existing data about the...

Interview with Mala Moszkowicz, MD, specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Did you know that Nordic psychiatric collaboration is very old? It dates back 1906, at that time it was named The Scandinavian...

Working with perinatal mental health requires specialized knowledge about both adults and babies, as well as the interaction between them...

This time, Erika Jääskeläinen gladly agreed to describe her work week. This was one week of her life in November of 2022.

In the Danish movie “Sorrow and Joy” directed by Niels Malmros (2013), a woman becomes depressed after giving birth to a daughter. In the...

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

When I started writing this issue's editorial, I was on my way home from the meeting, where we planned the content for this issue...

The Nordic Psychiatric Association, a joint organization of the national psychiatric associations of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland...