Nils Johan Lavik
Norwegian psychiatrist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nils Johan Lavik was a Norwegian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oslo. He was known for his work on psychological trauma among refugees. He graduated as a medical doctor in 1958, became a specialist in psychiatry in 1965 and earned his PhD at the University of Oslo in 1976. His dissertation compared youth in rural and urban areas. In 1978 he was appointed by the King-in-Council as Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oslo, and he became Professor Emeritus in 2000. From 1990 to 2000 he was also Director of the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees at the University of Oslo. A Festschrift in his honour was published in 1991.
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- Mental Disorder among Refugees and the Impact of Persecution and Exile: Some Findings from an Out-Patient Population (1996) (176)
- Eating behaviour, drug use, psychopathology and parental bonding in adolescents in Norway (1991) (115)
- Utilization of mental health services over a given period (1983) (97)
- The use of self-reports in psychiatric studies of traumatized refugees: Validation and analysis of HSCL-25 (1999) (86)
- Patterns of drug use and sensation‐seeking among adolescents in Norway (1989) (64)
- Torture and the medical profession: a review. (1991) (56)
- Traumatic Events and Psychological Symptoms in a Non‐clinical Refugee Population in Norway (2001) (33)
- Adolescents and benzodiazepines: prescribed use, self‐medication and intoxication (1991) (31)
- No evidence for a correlation between behaviour and the size of the Y chromosome (1977) (26)
- Drug use and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence (1986) (15)
- Marital status in psychiatric patients (1982) (14)
- Drug abuse among junior high school students in Norway. (1987) (7)
- FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE AND ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOUR DISORDERS (1969) (6)
- Trends in the Organization of Mental Health Services in Norway (1987) (6)
- Drug abuse and environment in youth (2004) (4)
- The Akershus Project: Development and Evaluation of Three Programs of Drug and Alcohol Education in Junior High Schools. (1986) (4)
- A Psychiatrist Who Confronted Nazism (1989) (3)
- Client utilization of service in relation to mental illness in a population (1980) (3)
- THE CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY (1973) (3)
- [Psychosocial problems among refugees in Norway]. (1989) (2)
- The interrelationship between nutrition and social development in adolescence. (2009) (2)
- A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway's Physicians and the Nazis (review) (1999) (2)
- [Prevention of drug abuse among adolescents]. (1984) (2)
- Field report: A refugee protest action in a host country: possibilities and limitations of an intervention by a mental health unit (1996) (2)
- [Mental health among refugees. Connection between symptoms, traumatization and exile]. (1997) (1)
- [The social role of disease. Critical evaluation of the limits of the disease state causing general discomfort, social deviation and moral deficiency--from a psychiatric viewpoint]. (1980) (1)
- [Evaluation of psychiatric health services in a geographically defined region. Problems, experiences and results from a collaboration project in WHO]. (1981) (1)
- [Psychological reactions to delayed or premature sexual maturity]. (1973) (0)
- [Psychosocial consequences of organized violence. Experiences from Latin America]. (1990) (0)
- [Health and political leadership. When somatic or mental diseases hit the statesmen and politicians]. (2000) (0)
- [A general survey of epidemiologic research in Norwegian psychiatry]. (1986) (0)
- [Mental health among Norwegian immigrants to America. Ornulv Odegård's migration research in a historical perspective]. (1993) (0)
- [Paranoid personality disorders and political power]. (2001) (0)
- [Special problems in psychotherapy of adolescents]. (1977) (0)
- [Use of drugs, environment and life style in adolescents]. (1986) (0)
- [Hitler's personality--one more time]. (2001) (0)
- [Medicine and outlook on life--dependence and autonomy]. (1995) (0)
- [Medicine and human rights]. (1994) (0)
- [Epidemiology of adolescent psychiatry. Extension, trends and causes of psychiatric disorders among young people]. (1980) (0)
- [Value problems in residential treatment of adolescent psychiatric patients]. (1971) (0)
- [Drug and alcohol education among secondary school pupils. An evaluation study in Akershus]. (1984) (0)
- Contributions from Psychiatry on the Peace—War Issue (1989) (0)
- [The narcotic problem from a historical and international point of view]. (1988) (0)
- [Psychiatric aspects of new religious sects]. (1985) (0)
- Hitlers personlighet – nok en gang (2001) (0)
- [German medicine during the Nazi regime--cooperation and resistance]. (1995) (0)
- Tysk medisin under nazismen -- samarbeid og motstand (1995) (0)
- [The value of knowledge (insight etc.) and different psychotherapeutic methods]. (1972) (0)
- [Clinical experiences with refugees in need of treatment. Reflections on psychosocial problems of people living in exile]. (1989) (0)
- [Mixed abuse of drugs by adolescents]. (1986) (0)
- [Psychiatry and politics. Illustrated by Johan Scharffenberg's articles on nazism]. (1987) (0)
- [Norwegian psychiatry and Nazism. A historical project of current interest]. (1994) (0)
- [The socially different person]. (1969) (0)
- [ACUTE INTOXICATIONS. SOMATIC, SOCIAL AND PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS IN DATA COVERING 5 YEARS]. (1964) (0)
- [Y chromosome variation in man]. (1977) (0)
- [Genocide--some medical and psychological aspects]. (2002) (0)
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