Per Magnus Johansson

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Certified psychotherapist.

Presentation

Per Magnus Johansson is a clinical psychologist in private practice; his training took place in Paris.
In 2009, he published the fourth volume in his series Freuds psykoanalys; Inblickar i psykiatrins och den psykodynamiska terapins historia i Göteborg 1945–2009 [Freud’s Psychoanalysis; insight into the history of psychiatry and the history of psychodynamic therapy in Gothenburg 1945-2009]. During the autumn of 2011, together with Professor Claudia Fahlke, he will publish a new book, Psykopatologi [Psychopathology].
In 1999 he defended his thesis. Today (2011) he is an Associate Professor and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. He claims that quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as polls and textual analysis, can complete one another in a scientific task. His research includes the domain of personality psychology as well as that of History of Ideas and Theory of Science.
Johansson is founder and editor in chief of the cultural journal Arche. In 2006, he received the decoration Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French department of Education and Sciences.
He is also a psychologist, psychotherapist and specialist in clinical psychology, and although his schedule is constantly full, he continues to reserve time for his patients and analysands, some of which regularly travel 600 miles or more to their sessions.
Since 1999 he also leads a seminar, the aim of which, among other things, is to address the clinic and its challenges, maintaining, over time, an open discussion of the possibilities and limitations of psychoanalytically based psychotherapy and its place among other treatments, relating it to the massive changes that have occurred during the last half century with regard to the way people live their lives. The participants of the seminar are mostly psychologists but among them are also medical doctors, sociologists, and several other professions.
Ever since college, Per Magnus Johansson takes a special interest in French literature, particularly French poetry. He is also part of the panel that awards the Per Lagerkvist price, established in 2010 in honour of the Nobel Prize winner. Since 2007 he is the chairman of the Ethics Board of the Swedish Psychological Association.