

Recruitment to psychiatry in Sweden
Interview with Jonas Eberhard, President of the Swedish Psychiatric Association, and Dr Karl-Axel Lundblad, board member.


Can there be too little stigma in psychiatry?
During my upbringing in Gothenburg in the 1990s, the diagnosis Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception (DAMP) had just been introduced. DAMP can briefly be described as a narrower phenotype of ADHD, including motor symptoms or coordination difficulties roughly corresponding to Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Children ran around shouting "DAMP kid" at each other, and the term became a dominant insult in schoolyards, alongside derogatory terms related to



