Anders Malkomsen

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Anders Malkomsen er lege i spesialisering i psykiatri ved Seksjon for behandlingsforskning ved Oslo universitetssykehus. Han har nylig utgitt boken Hva er poenget? om eksistensielle samtaler.

Articles by Anders Malkomsen

The expectation gap in psychiatry must be reduced

Anders Malkomsen,
Carl Tollef Solberg

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...

Psychiatry's crisis of expectations

Anders Malkomsen,
Carl Tollef Solberg

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...