Historiography and Psychoanalysis

Registered psychologist and registered psychotherapist. He is an associate professor at the department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science at Gothenburg University, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Psykoanalytisk Tid/Skrift [Psychoanalytical time/writing] and the author of four books. He has also written some twenty forewords and postscripts to various books and approximately 100 articles in Swedish, English, and French. Johansson works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and teaches at the study programme for psychologists at the University of Gothenburg as well as at the department of History of Ideas and Theory of Science. He also holds courses within the training programme for future psychotherapists at the University of Gothenburg. In 2006, he received the distinction of Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acade-miques, awarded by the French Ministry of Education. He is responsible, jointly with Claudia Fahlke, for the publication, in January 2007, at Natur och Kultur, of the book Personlighetspsykologi [Personality psychology], to which he had also contributed a chapter. At present, he is working on a book about the history of psychotherapy in Sweden.