Jonas Eberhard

Jonas Eberhard serves as an Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Consultant at Lund University. He is a project manager within the "Severe Mental Illness" research unit and an affiliated researcher at the Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities (BRCMH).

Expertise & Research Areas

• Core Areas: Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Adult Autism, and Epidemiology.

• Focus Topics: Self-reported psychiatric symptoms, the relationship between suicidality and bipolar subtypes, and the economic impact of psychiatric treatments.

• Sustainable Development Goals: His work contributes to UN SDGs 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions).

Key Projects

• SRPS Development (Ongoing): Principal Investigator (PI) for the development of the 'Self-Reported Psychiatric Symptoms scale' (SRPS).

• Registry Study on Bipolar & Suicidality (2014-2022): Led the study investigating the association between bipolar subtypes and suicidality.

Selected Recent Publications (2023-2025)

• Association Between Autism and PTSD Among Adult Psychiatric Outpatients (2025) - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

• Elephants, bushes, hot porridge… and clinical intuition? (2024) - Nordic Journal of Psychiatry.

• Autism in adult psychiatric out-patients: self-reported suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury (2023) - BJPsych Open.

• Economic impact of reducing treatment gaps in depression (2023) - European Psychiatry.

Education & Academic Activities

• Supervisor for PhD students.

• Active member of examination and supervision committees at Lund University.