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Anders Malkomsen er ph.d., spesialist i psykiatri og legespesialist ved Seksjon for behandlingsforskning, Oslo universitetssykehus.
Articles by Anders Malkomsen
Palliative psychiatry
- Anders Malkomsen,
- Carl Tollef Solberg
13.10.2025:
Additional curative approaches may do more harm than good in patients with severe mental illness who continue to experience symptoms despite multiple attempts at treatment. This highlights the need for palliative psychiatry. Many psychiatrists are well aware that some patients with severe mental...
Psychiatry's clarification of expectations
- Anders Malkomsen,
- Carl Tollef Solberg
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...
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...