摘要: Introduces the articles in the current issue of Nordic Psychology. Topics covered in the articles include comments on a suggestion that evidence-based psychotherapies with a clear medical objective should go under the name of “psychological treatments”, an analysis of a novel, a need for guidelines outlining the minimum requirements to justify professional and ethical use of unstandardized psychological instruments, the evolution of psychology education at the University of Copenhagen in the period 1850–1950, and empirical data on the fear of being laughed at in Denmark.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)