Journal | The Nordic Psychiatrist

Issue 1 2021: Interactive Contents

Editor word: Issue 1 2021

“Connecting Minds" is the theme for this year's Nordic Congress of Psychiatry. The theme, which was decided several years ago, has taken...

Ramunė Mazaliauskienė

2 min

Introduction: Ramunė Mazaliauskienė

Ramunė Mazaliauskienė, Chairman of Nordic Psychiatric Associations.

Welcome to NCP2021 Virtual!

Finnish Psychiatric Association is hosting the first ever virtual NCP congress. Nordic Congress of Psychiatry is an esteemed...

Why should you attend a Nordic congress?

Marianne Kastrup

2 min

Why should you attend a Nordic congress?

Interview with Merete Nordentoft, plenary speaker.

Best regards from the meeting of the Board of Nordic psychiatric associations!

More information coming soon!

Remote psychotherapy

Interview with Monica Eggert and Jouni Wilska.

Marianne Kastrup

4 min

“The experts are just a click away”

Interview with Davor Mucic, MD.

Connecting minds across cultures and languages

Kreeta Burakowski

3 min

Connecting minds across cultures and languages

Ever more often, the patient sitting across us has grown up in a different cultural environment, and we lack a common language. However...

Morten Sodemann

4 min

Hybrid Identities

It is a complex task to settle successfully in a new country. Revision of your past and reorientation of cultural values may be required...

Transference and countertransference in cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapy

Siria Lemma

3 min

Transference and countertransference in cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapy

Interview with Tarja Melartin.

Clinical hypnosis – a revitalization of the art of medicine

Ola Marstein

3 min

Clinical hypnosis – a revitalization of the art of medicine

Interview with Helene Helgeland.

How to Communicate with Someone with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Asperger Syndrome)

Ramunė Mazaliauskienė

3 min

How to Communicate with Someone with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Asperger Syndrome)

Interview with Kristina de Vitte.

Telepsychiatry – mobility through technology

Melissa Authen Weibell

4 min

Telepsychiatry – mobility through technology

In an average year, between one in six and one in five people in the adult population will develop a mental illness. Half of these people...

Goda Tikniūtė

6 min

Communication in the Time of Pandemic

Interview with Prof. Rūta Petrauskaitė.

Ola Marstein

3 min

Reflections on communicating

The chief editor asked me to share some personal experiences, so here it goes – reflections by an experienced clinician, but still a...

The boring patient. Biography and article

Brynjólfur Ingvarsson

4 min

The boring patient. Biography and article

Brynjólfur graduated from the Medical School of the University of Iceland in 1966 and after two years of service in Iceland he started...

Óttar Gudmundsson

3 min

Problems of expression in psychiatry

According to the Old Testament, the entire human kind spoke one and the same language. There was much arrogance, however, and a decision...

The "Difficult Patient" vs. the "Difficult Doctor"

Högni Óskarsson

3 min

The "Difficult Patient" vs. the "Difficult Doctor"

The following story is an example of how our sessions with a patient may go offtrack without our realizing what is happening until it is...

Haukur Ingi Jónasson

4 min

Psychoanalysis today

In the 19th century and at the turn of the 20th century our understandings of the human mind and the clinical potentialities took a leap.

Oslo Hospital – 300 years of mental care

Some reflections on the site of Norway’s first psychiatric in-patient facility and the place for small personalized institutions.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – an underused treatment for depression?

Interview with Carl-Johan Ekman.

Current and novel approaches to antipsychotics

Hans-Peter Mofors

8 min

Current and novel approaches to antipsychotics

Interview with Holger Arthur.

Postgraduate medical education in Lithuania – Junior doctors' perspective

“If you want to change the system, start from education” - with these words medical education pioneer professor Fedde Scheele steered...

The medical student who did not drink coffee

Anna Kristin Gunnarsdottir

2 min

The medical student who did not drink coffee

I do not drink coffee and I never have so I frequently rejected offers for a cup of coffee as a medical student. More experienced...

A week in psychiatry with Maria Larsson

Maria Larsson is an exceptionally busy and a hard working psychiatrist, and the next chairman to be in the Swedish Psychiatric Association.

What is going on in Nordic psychiatry?

TNP editorial board

13 min

National associations annual report

Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish psychiatric associations.

Highlights from the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 75

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

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The Nordic Psychiatrist is published twice a year by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Nordic Psychiatric Associations. The journal is distributed to all members of the national Nordic psychiatry associations. From June 2021 the journal is available to all readers online.