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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Simon R. Wilkinson*
Affiliation:
Consultant Psychiatrist (Child Psychiatry), Ullevål Sykehus, 0407 Oslo 4, Norway
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It did not take me long to find that I belonged to the ‘marginal’ section of Norwegian society. Both as foreigner and psychiatrist I seemed to be a threat. Nevertheless it is from society's marginal groups that healers have often come (Miller, 1987) and so I continue to work with a necessary and natural cultural naivety and therapeutic optimism! I present here an overview and critique of the services provided for children in Oslo from the privileged position of a migrant. The high staffing levels and the profile of child and adolescent psychiatry appear to have exaggerated the ‘psychologising’ of problems and a search for therapy. These have the potential to inflame both interprofessional conflicts and interdisciplinary conflicts because of the emphasis on therapeutic skills to the relative exclusion of a relevant knowledge base.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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