Øivind Ekeberg

21.10.2019: There has been considerable pessimism surrounding the treatment potential for borderline personality disorder, but there is growing evidence to support the efficacy of tailored care. Patients with borderline personality disorder are often regarded as ungrateful and difficult to treat. The stigma...

14.10.2019: A number of patients whom the admitting doctor considers to be acutely suicidal are denied admission to a psychiatric ward or discharged after a short time. The usual justification is that the receiving doctor believes the patient to be 'chronically suicidal' and that hospitalisation will exacerbate...

03.07.2019: In Norway, the suicide rate has not declined during the last 20 years, despite numerous action plans, better knowledge and improved treatment. Most people who take their own lives are not in psychiatric treatment, and societal conditions are a main reason why the suicide rate is not falling. When...

01.10.2018: Group supervision is a mandatory part of the training for specialty registrars. In this article we share some of our experience from group-based supervision in oncology. The new regulations for medical specialisations (LIS 2 and 3), due to come into force in March 2019, gives emphasis to clinical...

13.11.2017: “Chronically suicidal” and “chronic suicidality” are unclear terms which in our opinion should not be used. Both these terms are relatively new. The late psychiatrist Professor Nils Retterstøl offered the following definition in his book Selvmord ( Suicide) from 1995: “The ‘chronically suicidal’ are...

13.11.2017: Some mental health professionals maintain that it is not possible to predict suicide and that suicide risk assessments can be harmful. We do not agree with those assertions. In 2008, national guidelines for suicide prevention in mental health care were published in Norway (1). A milestone in suicide...

02.10.2017: When someone is driven by a suicidal urge, psychiatry is expected to help. In a study conducted in the Agder counties, Vegard Øksendal Haaland and collaborators provide an account of the contact that victims of suicide in the years 2004–2013 have had with mental health care or interdisciplinary...

17.11.2015: Acute poisonings are a serious health problem and often require treatment in hospital and/or at the pre-hospital level (1) –  (3). There seems to be an inverse correlation between both the incidence and the degree of severity of acute poisonings on the one hand and socioeconomic status on the other...