Anders Zachrisson (1943-2024)

Anders Zachrisson, PhLic, Training and Supervising psychoanalyst, died in Oslo March 29th, 2024. He was 80 years old.

Zachrisson was born on November 11th, 1943, into a farmer's house in Dalsland, Sweden. As there was only an elementary school in the region, he left home early. Anders Zachrisson entered Lund University, where he studied psychology and joined a group doing research on perception. His supervisor got a professorship at Oslo University in 1972, and Zachrisson joined him as a research assistant. At the Institute of Psychology Zachrisson began teaching clinical psychology, and beside that, he 1984 founded a private practice. Zachrisson went into psychoanalytical training, from which he graduated in 1989. After that, psychoanalysis was his professional mission. Zachrisson was appointed Training and Supervising psychoanalyst in 1995, and he graduated as a Child and Adolescent psychoanalyst in 2001.

Professionally, Anders Zachrisson took on many roles and responsibilities. Within the psychoanalytical community, he was an administrator, being e.g. the President of the Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society from 2002 to 2006. Zachrisson was, however, foremost a clinician, a teacher, an editor, and a scientific author.

As noted, Anders Zachrisson started his private practice in the middle of the 80's, and most of his working hours consisted of psychoanalyses and psychotherapies. Clinical experience informed his teaching, his supervision, but also his written oeuvre.

As a teacher, Anders Zachrisson had many scenes. First, he was an Associate Professor at Oslo University, teaching and supervising students in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. Second, he was a teacher of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy within psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic communities. Outside Norway, Zachrisson was one of the central forces within the Han Groen Prakken Institute and the PIEE, both organizing psychoanalytic training in Eastern Europe. He was important in a Norwegian-Chinese edu