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One of the seniors in our psychoanalytic community, Randolf Alnæs, died quite unexpectedly after a short period of illness on the 17th of February 2000, aged 73.
Randolf Alnæs was born in Kristiansund where his father was both on the police force and an army officer. After graduating from high school, Alnæs studied medicine and graduated as cand. med. in 1951. He became a specialist in psychiatry in 1961, and a psychoanalyst (IPA) with membership in the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society in 1973. He defended his thesis for his doctorate in Oslo in 1989 and became Professor of Psychiatry in 1992.
After a period of time in analysis with Astri Brun in Oslo, he moved to Stockholm where he soon began his training at the Psychoanalytic Institute, as well as a three-year training period in group therapy at the Pedagogical Institution of the University. It was here that he went into training analysis with Esther Lamm. After he became qualified as an analyst, he returned to Oslo and became a member of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society.
His clinical training from well-known institutions was comprehensive and wide-ranging. He became a chief physician in a number of hospitals, such as the Långbro Sjukhus in Sweden, Lier, and Vinderen Psychiatric Clinic in Norway.
As early as 1964, he became the joint editor, together with Professor Langen of Tübingen, of a book about autohypnoid methods. In 1966-71, he was the joint editor (together with Gordon Johnson) of a 3-volume series published under the title “Psychotherapy, viewpoints and methods”.
Randolf Alnæs held honorary functions in the Norwegian Psychoanalytic