Disaster psychiatry and traumatic stress studies in Norway. History, current status and future.

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U F Malt,L Weisaeth,

The breakthrough of Norwegian disaster psychiatry and traumatic stress studies came when the "Board of Norwegian Doctors of 1957" carried out exceptionally thorough and comprehensive studies of former concentration camp prisoners. These studies convincingly demonstrated that chronic mental illnesses could develop in persons who had a harmonious childhood but who had been subject to extreme physical and psychological stress. During the seventies Norway became the first country in the world to have a University chair of disaster psychiatry. The scope of the field was broadened by the initiation of several studies on traumatic neurosis, industrial disaster and injuries. The support from the Joint Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services, the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, and later the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Technical Research, was crucial for this development. Currently stress and disaster psychiatry has become an integrated part of the care of victims who have suffered individual or collective disaster. Disaster psychiatry is taught in medical schools and is part of the obligatory training for residents in psychiatry.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Review

Journal: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum

VOLUME: 355

Page Numbers: 7-12

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ISSN: 0065-1591

DAY: 15

MONTH: 02

YEAR: 1989

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KEYWORDS: Survival

MESH TERMS: psychology

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AFFILIATION: Division of Disaster Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Gaustad.

Country: DENMARK

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