Omid V. Ebrahimi

Academic interests

• Personalized psychological treatment

• Psychopathology

• Idiography vs. nomothesis

• Integrative research methods – combination of process- and outcome research

• Complex systems, graph theory and network models

• Philosophy of Science

• Integrative therapies

• Psychological effects of non-pharmacological epidemiological interventions during pandemics (i.e., COVID-19)

Project

Graduate student at the Norwegian Double PhD Program (“Prosjekt Dobbelkompetanse”) at the University of Oslo and Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center. The project utilizes the complex systems- and the network paradigm to investigate psychopathology on two levels; cross-sectionally across specified groups of individuals, and longitudinally through the intensive study of the individual.

Supervisors: Sverre Urnes Johnson, Asle Hoffart and Ole Andre Solbakken.

Background

• Cand.psychol. (Clinical Psychologist), Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, spring 2019.

• Visiting scholar at Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders working in team led by Dr. Todd J. Farchione and Dr. David H. Barlow.

• University of California, Berkeley –The Berkeley Clinical Science Practicum Program (2019).

• The University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2016.

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2010).

Teaching

• PSYC4315 – Psychopathological assessment in the adult population
• PSYC3300 - Psychopathology
• PSYC1302 - Introduction to clinical science and practice

External collaboration

• Richard J. McNally, Harvard University.

Other associations

•  Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital and Research Center.
• Clinical Psychologist specializing in adult psychopathology and trauma-related disorders at the Trauma Polyclinic Modum Bad, Oslo.
• Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychological Guidance (IPR).