Johan Cullberg

Johan Cullberg at the 2009 ISPS International conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark (https://isps.org/)[1]

Johan Cullberg(6 January 1934 – 14 June 2022)was a Swedish professor inpsychiatryandpsychology,researcher,psychoanalyst,and author of a number of internationally recognised textbooks.

Career

He started his career at the department ofgynecologyat theKarolinska University Hospital,Karolinska Institute,inStockholmstudying the effects ofbirth 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 ofantipsychoticmedicine, reduction incompulsory treatmentand more humane psychiatric care.He was awarded theDobloug Prize(Swedish:Doblougska Priset), a literature prize awarded by theSwedish Academyin 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 theSwedish National Arts Council.

Bibliography (partial)

• Crisis and Development(1975) (revised 1992)
• Cullberg, Johan (September 1991). "Recovered versus non-recovered schizophrenic patients among those who have had intensive psychotherapy".Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.84(3): 242–245.doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1991.tb03137.x.PMID1950624.S2CID37533906.
• Creating Crisis(1992)ISBN91-27-06697-5
• Dynamic Psychiatry in Theory and Practice(1993)ISBN9127035719
• Mänskliga gränsområden - About extase, psykos and gale creation.Johan Cullberg, Karin Johannisson, and Owe Wikström (red). (1996)ISBN91-27-05831-X
• Psychoses, a humanist and biological perspective(2000)ISBN91-27-07972-4
• Evolving Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses)(2006) Johan Cullberg with Jan Olav Johannessen, and Brian V. MartindaleISBN978-1-58391-992-7
• My psychiatric life, Memoires(2007)