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

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

, researcher,

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

, and author of a number of internationally recognised textbooks.

Career

He started his career at the department of

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the Female reproductive system, female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obste ...

at the

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital () 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 is the second largest in Sweden, after ...

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...

, in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

studying the effects of

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. 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

antipsychotic Antipsychotics, previously known as neuroleptics and major tranquilizers, are a class of Psychiatric medication, psychotropic medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), p ...

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

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) 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. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...

( Swedish: Doblougska Priset), a literature prize awarded by the

Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body t ...

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 Swedish National Arts Council.

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 20th-century Swedish non-fiction writers Dobloug Prize winners People from Västerås {{Sweden-writer-stub