Anders Malkomsen

06.05.2025: Psychiatry's crisis of expectations is due to an increasing gap between expectations and resources. To avoid exacerbating the crisis, we must clarify these expectations. We have asserted earlier that psychiatry is facing a crisis of expectations (1), and that there are at least three complementary...

13.04.2023: If the expectations for psychiatry increase faster than the access to resources, the expectation gap will only continue to grow, leading to a crisis in psychiatry. We can manage this gap by reducing expectations, increasing efficiency or increasing resources. In an earlier article, we claimed that...

10.02.2022: The Norwegian discourse on mental health care has revealed a wide gap between expectations and realities. In somatic medicine, it is accepted that some diseases are chronic and terminal. Why is this different in psychiatry? There are still some people who become psychotic and commit murder. Such...