Mange kliniske enheter bruker mange penger på å lære opp klinikere i nye metoder gjennom dyre kurs, bøker og veiledning. Mange av disse metodene mangler god dokumentasjon både med tanke på ønskede og uønskede effekter, sier Jan Ivar Røssberg. psykologisk.no/2025/10/vi-t...

“11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are.” www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/y...

Very elegantly stated re conspiracy theorists: they don’t know what the don’t know, essentially: “…a lower ability to accurately evaluate one’s knowledge” Or shorthand: D-K effect Please read this open access study👇🏽

Det nærmer seg Verdensdagen for psykisk helse, folkens! Husk å «lett på trykket»! 😬😳

In psychotherapy, there are principles and there are preferences. People tend to mistake their personal preferences for principles. We have 400+ therapeutic modalities because of preferences, not principles.

🚨 Just out in Nature Medicine: the RESiLIENT study (n=3,936; 9 CBT-based arms vs 3 controls) 📱 Massive RCT of smartphone-delivered CBT skills It challenges major assumptions in psychotherapy research. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Three key insights:

I forbindelse med en artikkelserie på @forskning.bsky.social om karakteranalytisk psykoterapi, skriver jeg om den manglende/fraværende reguleringen av psykologisk behandling. www.forskersonen.no/debattinnleg...

Agree wholeheartedly that waitlist is not acceptable as a “placebo” condition. But I would take it further; waitlist is, perhaps with a few exceptions, never an adequate and acceptable control condition in trials examining treatments for mental disorders.

“Psychiatry at the margins doesn’t just mean innovative trauma-informed care or radical mutual aid—it also means the rise of quackery, grifters, and reactionary forces exploiting the collapse of institutional credibility.” DuBrul 👇🏽

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As most things in clinical psychology, the evidence for and the effectiveness of deliberate practice is exaggerated.

To Make America Healthy Again, it will be crucial for the CDC to spend millions of research funds to revisit the idea of whether eating chocolate causes Nobel prize winners.

Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/

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Mental health misinformation is rampant on social media. In our new study, 33% of top viewed TikTok videos that offered advice and information were misleading. These videos were watched over 1 billion times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @srmarcon.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social

Lurer du på noe om bipolare lidelser. Hva symptomene er og hva som er best mulig behandling? Lytt til denne ferske episoden av Psykopoden og hør overlege Siv Hege Lyngstad fortelle om det- shorturl.at/zzyj2

The thing that kills me about this is you can Google ‘is 85% of science research waste’ and the first thing that comes up is a retrospective article about the figure. By the authors who were at the time the head of the Evidence Based Medicine crew at Oxford and the cofounder of Cochrane.

Has science killed philosophy? | https://buff.ly/4hOOgMJ Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and @jderbyshire.ft.com investigate the limits of science and philosophy. #philsci #philosophy 🧪

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Starmer backs Zelensky after Trump 'dictator' claim www.bbc.com/news/article...

90s scientists: “We cloned a sheep! We landed a robot on mars!” Scientists today: “For the last time, the earth is round.” - Ben Rosen

Viktig tekst av fire overleger i smittevern ved FHI. Det som skjer i USA nå setter det globale folkehelsearbeidet i fare. www.nrk.no/ytring/globa...

@dranniehickox.bsky.social @sameihuda.bsky.social @jonathanstea.bsky.social #psychotherapy

So proud: another mystery of the #brain #gridcells discovered the #sweeps in our lab by - @azwollan.bsky.social @rjgardner.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social at @kavlintnu.bsky.social @torilhernes.bsky.social @kavlifondation.bsky.social 🧹🔦🍩🐀

Helhjertet enig med @torewig.bsky.social i @morgenbladet.no : Vi må gjøre Norge til en attraktiv havn for de kloke hodene som nå flykter fra USA. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/kommen...

Ny studie viser svak oppfølging av pasienter som fikk antidepressive legemidler. psykiskhelse.no/magasinet/sj...

A 2024 study — “Direct serotonin release in humans shapes aversive learning and inhibition” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reviewing "effectiveness trials" in psychotherapy

Ny episode av Psykopoden: Schizofreni og psykoser hos barn og unge: Lytt her: med.uio.no/tjenester/ku...

@joannamoncrieff.bsky.social asserts that decades of research has failed to provide any evidence that serotonin is involved in mood or behavior (note: not just depression but mood and behavior in general!), and that ALL we can confidently say is that serotonin negatively effects sexual behavior. /1

With the caveat that I haven’t read fulltext (or trial protocol and registration), this 👇 is the kind of psychotherapy trials we need more of. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Mange påstår hardnakket at Oslo er en trygg by. Men det er påfallende hvordan alle som påstår det enten: 1. Bor i Oslo 2. Tilbringer mye tid i Oslo eller 3. Ikke er generelt er redde for mennesker med en annen hudfarge enn dem selv. Noe å tenke på…

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

Shots fired! «There is no convincing evidence that long and intensive therapy [for personality disorders] is more effective than short and less intensive therapy.» journals.lww.com/co-psychiatr...

But what if the disinformation campaign emerges organically, over years, via individual opinions and blogs by those who have respect and credibility among peers? The Antipsychiatry movement is a case in point. #MedSky #PsychSky #MadSky

Som en pendlende professor så setter jeg pris på å høre på podcast. For tiden binger jeg Psykopodden av @janivarr.bsky.social og co. Her er det mye bra.

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Idioemokrati- www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/kommen...

If it was 1996 we’d be saying behavioral methods don’t add to cognitive ones 😬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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First NMA comparing pharmacological, psychological, and neurostimulatory interventions for ADHD in adults, indicating that stimulants is the only TX that is supported by evidence of efficacy for core symptoms of ADHD and associated with good acceptability. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...