
Lars Petter Bergsmark- Master of Science
- PhD Fellow at Aarhus University
Lars Petter Bergsmark
- Master of Science
- PhD Fellow at Aarhus University
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Introduction
Currently, I am is researching the experience of prolonged grief disorder. The overall aim of the project is to investigate and formulate which aspects of prolonged grief disorder make this condition disordered, based on the patient perspective. My primary interests lie in psychopathology and the philosophy of psychiatry. This involves questions about nosology, clinical practice, and the functions of diagnoses in society.
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July 2022 - September 2023
Education
August 2020 - June 2022
August 2016 - June 2019
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Objective: Synthesize research findings and provide insight into firsthand experiences of complicated grief. Methods: We systematically searched qualitative studies in English in four databases (PsycInfo, PubMed, CINAHL and Web of Science). We included 5 studies and applied meta-ethnography to identify and translate across studies. Results: This re...
The Nordic countries are currently attempting to implement prolonged grief disorder as an official psychiatric diagnosis, as enacted by The World Health Organization in 2018. The enactment has been controversial and, especially in Denmark, the forthcoming diagnosis has met resistance from scholars and clinicians alike. In this article we will outli...
In this response, Lars Petter Sødal Bergsmark and Frida Ramsing address the arguments and criticism made by Svend Brinkmann (2023) concerning their carefully optimistic presentation of the psychiatrization of pathological grief in the article “Which Considerations Are Lost When Debating the Prolonged Grief Disorder Diagnosis?” (Bergsmark & Ramsing,...
Psykiske lidelser utgjør en av vår tids fremste samfunnsutfordringer. I denne artikkelen vil jeg presentere og diskutere de fremherskende perspektivene på det som er blitt kalt en «epidemi» av psykiske lidelser og håndteringen av denne. Med utgangspunkt i sosial-materialistisk psykologi vil jeg vise hvordan disse ulike perspektivene kan komplemente...
The Nordic Countries are currently attempting to implement Prolonged Grief Disorder as an official psychiatric diagnosis, as enacted by The World Health Organization in 2018. The enactment has been controversial, and especially in Denmark, the forthcoming diagnosis has met resistance from scholars and clinicians alike. In this paper we will outline...
Innføringen av en selvstendig diagnose forpatologisk sorg har vært kontroversiell. Den legefaglige gestaltingen av behandlingskrevende sorglidelse (i.e. medikalisering) er klinisk sett tilforlatelig, men risikerer samtidig å underkjenne sorgfenomenets mange øvrige dimensjoner. Kritikere av ‘sorgdiagnosen’ ser fortrinnsvis medikaliseringen som uhens...