Johan Cullberg (6 January 1934 – 14 June 2022) was a Swedish professor in

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and

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, researcher, psychoanalyst, and author of a number of internationally recognised textbooks.

Career

He started his career at the department of gynecology at the

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital ( sv, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network ...

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, in Stockholm studying the effects of birth control. He became head of one of the outpatient clinics in the Nacka Project, doing groundbreaking work on psychiatric care outside the hospital in Sweden. He was recognised for advocacy of lower doses of

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medicine, reduction in compulsory treatment and more humane psychiatric care. He was awarded the

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize ( sv, Doblougska priset, no, Doblougprisen) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. T ...

(

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: Doblougska Priset), a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy in 2008. Cullberg was the son of bishop John Cullberg and brother of painters Erland Cullberg and Carin Adler, and of Staffan Cullberg, who has been head of the

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Bibliography (partial)

* ''Crisis and Development'' (1975) (revised 1992) * * ''Creating Crisis'' (1992) * ''Dynamic Psychiatry in Theory and Practice'' (1993) * ''Mänskliga gränsområden - About extase, psykos and gale creation''. Johan Cullberg, Karin Johannisson, and Owe Wikström (red). (1996) * ''Psychoses, a humanist and biological perspective'' (2000) * ''Evolving Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)'' (2006) Johan Cullberg with Jan Olav Johannessen, and Brian V. Martindale * ''My psychiatric life, Memoires'' (2007)

References

1934 births 2022 deaths Swedish psychiatrists Swedish psychologists Swedish psychoanalysts Swedish medical researchers Swedish non-fiction writers Dobloug Prize winners People from Västerås {{Sweden-writer-stub