A violent man who escaped from a psychiatric hospital last week was found by police on Monday, despite dramatically changing his appearance from the picture police had published.
An extra 700 million kronor ($104 million) of public money spent on psychiatric care over a two year period had no effect on patients, according to a new report.
People who are convicted of crimes and sentenced to psychiatric care could face tougher restrictions when they are released, according to Sweden's justice minister, Beatrice Ask.
A new study has shown that conversation has been the most effective way of helping those injured or who suffered loss in the tsunami in South East Asia in 2004 to cope with their traumas.
The 40-year-old axe-wielding man who stopped traffic for nearly eight hours on Tuesday threatening to hang himself from a Stockholm bridge escaped from the hospital to which he was sent for psychiatric evaluation on Wednesday evening.
A severely mentally handicapped man was found on Wednesday lying beside his dead mother in their home in Hägersten. According to the police, the mother, who was aged 77, had been dead for around two weeks.
Procedures for checking people who have been sentenced to secure psychiatric care are flawed, according to a study carried out by the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare.
A 60-year old man found dead at St Göran's hospital in Stockholm is believed to have been murdered by a 26-year old fellow patient, it has been reported.
The expression in English to a stressed-out friend is, "Don't pop a blood vessel..." But Swedish researchers may correct the cliché to say: "Don't lose a tooth over it."
<span class="smallPrint">KATRINEHOLM</span>. A 26 year old woman who <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3496">escaped from Karsudden secure hospital</a> a few days ago returned voluntarily on Friday.
Police forces across Sweden and abroad are looking for a woman who escaped from a secure hospital near Katrineholm on Wednesday. The 26 year old, who was convicted of murdering her own grandmother, fled the hospital in a waiting car with her two year old daughter.
The conservative alliance have announced a ten point plan for mental health care, including a five billion kronor cash injection over ten years. The conservative programme is presented in an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter.
If Sweden's security police (Säpo) requests details about patients who have threatened politicians or the royal family, medical and care staff should break their duty of confidentiality and hand over the information.
Psychological treatment of patients by e-mail could become a cheaper alternative to face-to-face counseling, psychologists in Sweden said after conducting a pilot study.
Escapees from a psychiatric lockup simply picked the wrong victims on Wednesday night: while apparently casing a target house near Sundsvall, the owner came out and scared them off - by showing his police badge.
The Swedish government on Thursday said it would launch a program aimed at reversing the trend of rising numbers of suicide attempts among young people.
Three people were injured on Monday evening as a man ran amok on the Stockholm underground armed with a knife. A 35 year old man was arrested and is currently being held by Södermalm police.
