Academic Interests
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Dynamic psychotherapy/psychoanalysis.
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Therapist development and acquisition of competence in psychotherapy.
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Supervision in psychotherapy.
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Evaluation of competence in dynamic psychotherapy/psychoanalysis.
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Qualitative research methods, especially research interview informed by psychoanalytic theories and methods.
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Psychotherapy research.
Teaching
Higher education and employment history
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Previously a PhD research fellow in clinical psychology at Department of psychology, UiO.
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Candidate at the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Institute.
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Private practice in psychotherapy, part time.
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Previously a clinical psychologist at the Unit for young people with psychosis, Oslo University Hospital and at the Intermediate department at Oslo Hospital.
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Cand. psychol., UiO, in 1999.
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Previously a journalist, i.e. in Aftenposten.
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Cand. mag., UiO, in 1982, with the subjects: Nordic language and literature, History, and Political science.
Awards
Appointments
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Member of "Education and Traning in Research Methodologies Subcommitee" in International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA ).
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Member of the nordic section of the international project "Developing Psychoanalytic Practice and Training" (DPPT), arranged?? by IPA. Member of the subgroup "Working Party for Psychoanalytic Research". ""...
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Member of the Research Commitee in the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Association.
Cooperation
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The Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe (PIEE) within the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) is planning to begin a research project to study acquisition of psychoanalytic competence in different training settings: ”Training in different psychoanalytic settings: The path (experience) and the outcome”. Research leader: Gábor Szönyi, Hungary. Collaborators from Norway is psychoanalyst and senior researcher Sverre Varvin, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress (NKVTS), and Hanne Strømme.
Tags:
Clinical psychology
Publications
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Strømme, H. (2010). Confronting helplessness. A study of psychology students' acquisition of dynamic psychotherapeutic competence. Department of psychology. Oslo, University of Oslo. Ph.d.
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Strømme, Hanne; Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stanicke, Erik & Killingmo, Bjørn (2010). A widening scope on therapist development. A research interview informed by psychoanalysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology. ISSN 1478-0887. 7(3), s 214- 23.
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Strømme, Hanne (2005). Tidlig terapeututvikling. Matrix ISSN 0109-646X. (4), s 309- 329
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Strømme, Hanne & Hau, Stephan
(2025).
Transmissions and transformations in learning to work in the transference. A qualitative pilot study of a therapy and a corresponding supervision process of a pre-graduate psychologist in psychoanalytic-oriented training.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.
ISSN 0106-2301.
doi:
10.1080/01062301.2025.2533703.
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Empirical studies until now have not been rigged for documenting the personal changes taking place in trainees when learning to work in the transference by conducting therapy and receiving supervision. The aim of this pilot study is to explore how we can start investigating such a complex learning task. The research question is: During the corresponding therapy and supervision processes, how does a psychology student in a professional-oriented psychology study programme learn to contain and intervene in the transference here-and-now in the therapy relationship with the help of supervision? This qualitative, single-case study is part of the ongoing Nordic Psychotherapy Training Study (NORTRAS). Relevant data from video recordings of therapy and supervision sessions and research interviews are selected and triangulated in the data analysis. In the results, a transformative learning process is described where the therapist during the process became able to formulate in words emotions that initially were communicated through anxieties, projections, somatizations, and avoidance responses and to start talking with the patient about these feelings. The supervisor supported the process by her containment and psychoanalytic listening and knowledge, and by offering suggestions for interventions.
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Hoff, Cecilie Hillestad; Nissen-Lie, Helene, Amundsen & Strømme, Hanne
(2024).
Learning from embodied tension: A naturalistic multimodal single case study of nonverbal expressions and interactions in a psychotherapy training process.
European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy (EJQRP).
14,
p. 44–61.
doi:
10.24377/EJQRP.ARTICLE3102.
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This multimodal single case study explored how nonverbal communication was
handled in a psychodynamic training process. Using a multimodal qualitative method, video recordings of
a 39 sessions psychodynamic therapy process (with a female therapist treating a male client with
relational issues), parallel supervision sessions, and Interpersonal Process Recall interviews with the client
and therapist, were analyzed within the framework of Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA). The analysis
yielded three themes: a) The therapist’s insecurity seemed to have compromised her capacity to use her
own bodily signals to facilitate the exploration of emotions together with the client; b) The therapist and
the supervisor were sensitive to the nonverbal cues from the client, but supervision did not explicitly
explore how the therapist could use this sensitivity to moderate her own bodily signals and inform her
clinical interventions; and c) Supervision supported the therapist in tolerating embodied tension in the
therapeutic relationship. This study illustrates the close relationship between therapists’ capacity for
emotion regulation and their nonverbal relational skills. A more open exploration of the trainee’s emotion
regulation capacities in supervision may have supported her to deal more effectively with her own and
the client’s nonverbal expressions.
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Hoff, Cecilie Hillestad; Nissen-Lie, Helene, Amundsen & Strømme, Hanne
(2024).
Learning from embodied tension: A naturalistic multimodal single case study of nonverbal expressions and interactions in a psychotherapy training process.
European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy (EJQRP).
14.
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This multimodal single case study explored how nonverbal communication was handled in a psychodynamic training process. Using a multimodal qualitative method, video recordings of a 39 sessions psychodynamic therapy process (with a female therapist treating a male client with relational issues), parallel supervision sessions, and Interpersonal Process Recall interviews with the client and therapist, were analyzed within the framework of Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA). The analysis yielded three themes: a) The therapist’s insecurity seemed to have compromised her capacity to use her own bodily signals to facilitate the exploration of emotions together with the client; b) The therapist and the supervisor were sensitive to the nonverbal cues from the client, but supervision did not explicitly explore how the therapist could use this sensitivity to moderate her own bodily signals and inform her clinical interventions; and c) Supervision supported the therapist in tolerating embodied tension in the therapeutic relationship. This study illustrates the close relationship between therapists’ capacity for emotion regulation and their nonverbal relational skills. A more open exploration of the trainee’s emotion regulation capacities in supervision may have supported her to deal more effectively with her own and the client’s nonverbal expressions.
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Strømme, Hanne & Hau, Stephan
(2024).
Developing therapeutic competence: learning to work in transference.
In Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (Ed.),
Psychoanalytic studies of change - an integrative perspective.
Routledge.
ISSN 9781032651934.
p. 198–209.
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Stormoen, Halvor Raddum; Nissen-Lie, Helene, Amundsen; Hoff, Cecilie Hillestad & Strømme, Hanne
(2023).
“Detoxification” of destructive clinical material in psychodynamic psychotherapy: A case study of how the therapists’ interpersonal skills are used in a challenging treatment case with a successful outcome.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly.
ISSN 0951-5070.
doi:
10.1080/09515070.2023.2291199.
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There is a need to gain more knowledge of how interpersonally skilled therapists handle demanding clinical situations to better understand therapist effects. The aim of this single-case study was to investigate how the therapist encountered challenging situations where her interpersonal skills were put to test and how her handling likely contributed to patient change. From a larger research project on learning processes, this case was selected since it was judged to be both challenging and with a good outcome. Interpretative phenomenological analysis of video-recordings of a 42 session long psychodynamic psychotherapy, was conducted. The analysis yielded one superordinate theme: The therapist “detoxifies” demanding clinical material, such as aggression and shame. Three constituent sub-themes expressed different ways in which this process took place (1: The therapist tolerates the patient’s skepticism and criticism in a non-defensive manner by focusing on the patient’s underlying feeling; 2: The therapist responds to the patient’s self-destructive behaviors in a non-judgmental and “containing” way that reduces shame; and 3: The therapist interprets the patient’s rejection as separation anxiety related to termination of the therapy). Our findings provide a more nuanced understanding on how the interpersonal skills of the therapist come into use in a specific, challenging therapy process.
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Stänicke, Erik; Stänicke, Line Indrevoll & Strømme, Hanne
(2021).
Moderne psykoanalytisk terapi: Samspillets potensial for utvikling og endring.
In Binder, Per-Einar; Lorås, Lennart & Thuen, Frode (Ed.),
Håndbok i individualterapi.
Fagbokforlaget.
ISSN 9788245036817.
p. 197–209.
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Oddli, Hanne Berit Weie; Heinonen, Erkki; Hau, Stephan; Nielsen, Jan; Esterhazy, Rachelle & Hoff, Cecilie Hillestad
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(2021).
Learning Processes and Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills in Training and Supervision of Psychotherapy and Counselling: A Study Protocol for a Scoping Review.
Frontiers in Psychology.
12,
p. 1–6.
doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718314.
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Background: Increased awareness of the individual therapist’s vital contribution to treatment processes and outcome, and the potential role of training and supervision in this respect, warrants a close look at the empirical and theoretical literature on teaching and learning of therapists and counselors. Methods: A scoping review of the literature will be conducted based on an overarching research question: when authors have reported on learning processes and acquisition of knowledge and skills in psychotherapy/counseling and supervision/training literature over the past 30 years (since 1990), what evidence, concepts, theories, and models have they reported? A comprehensive search strategy is carried out to identify publications indexed in Scopus, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Publications will be sorted according to four categories: (1) conceptual/theoretical; (2) empirical (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods); (3) review, meta-synthesis or -analysis; (4) training program/model description. Procedures for the upcoming scoping review of conceptual/theoretical, empirical, and training program/model description publications will be outlined. Conclusion: Besides clarifying existing perspectives, practices, and evidence, and documenting the shifting trends of the field during the past three decades, this scoping review identifies knowledge gaps that point to vital future directions for research and theory development. Moreover, the comprehensive scoping lays the foundation for subsequent, more focused systematic reviews that address identified key research topics more specifically.
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Stänicke, Erik; Kristiansen, Sølvi; Strømme, Hanne & Stänicke, Line Indrevoll
(2019).
Klinisk tenkning i psykoanalysen.
In Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Kristiansen, Sølvi & Stänicke, Line Indrevoll (Ed.),
Klinisk tenkning og psykoanalyse.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISSN 9788205531338.
p. 15–35.
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Strømme, Hanne
(2018).
Ubevisste prosesser i veiledningsrelasjonen.
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet).
ISSN 0332-6470.
55(9),
p. 767–777.
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Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Killingmo, Bjørn & Gullestad, Siri Erika
(2017).
Cambio analítico: evaluando los modos de ser en las entrevistas de seguimiento psicoanalíticas.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
ISSN 0020-7578.
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Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Killingmo, Bjørn & Gullestad, Siri Erika
(2015).
Analytic change: Assessing ways of being in a psychoanalytic follow-up interview.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
ISSN 0020-7578.
1(3),
p. 919–942.
doi:
10.1080/2057410X.2015.1363558.
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Killingmo, Bjørn; Varvin, Sverre & Strømme, Hanne
(2014).
What can we expect from trainee therapists? A study of acquisition of competence in dynamic psychotherapy.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.
ISSN 0106-2301.
37(1),
p. 24–35.
doi:
10.1080/01062301.2014.903029.
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Strømme, Hanne
(2014).
A bad and a better supervision process; Actualized relational scenarios in trainees: A longitudinal study of nondisclosure in psychodynamic supervision.
Psychoanalytic inquiry.
ISSN 0735-1690.
34(6),
p. 584–605.
doi:
10.1080/07351690.2014.924372.
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Strømme, Hanne
(2014).
En plass i solen. Dilemmaer i veiledning av studentterapeuter.
In Lippe, Anna Louise von der; Nissen-Lie, Helene A & Oddli, Hanne (Ed.),
Psykoterapeuten. En antologi om terapeutens rolle i psykoterapi.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISSN 9788205472136.
p. 233–252.
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Strømme, Hanne; Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stanicke, Erik & Killingmo, Bjørn
(2010).
A widening scope on therapist development. A research interview informed by psychoanalysis.
Qualitative Research in Psychology.
ISSN 1478-0887.
7(3),
p. 214–232.
Full text in Research Archive
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Strømme, Hanne
(2005).
Tidlig terapeututvikling.
Matrix. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Psykoterapi.
ISSN 0109-646X.
p. 309–329.
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Szonyi, Gabor; Kardos, Timea; Strømme, Hanne & Vassilev, Svetlosar
(2017).
From motivation to organizational integration: Training experiences of recently qualified psychoanalysts. In K. Martin & M. Siegward (Eds.), Psychology research progress. Psychoanalytic theory: A review and directions for research.
Nova Science Publishers.
ISBN 9781536124842.
65 p.
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Strømme, Hanne & Zachrisson, Anders
(2019).
Utvikle en tenkning, finne sin stemme.
In Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Kristiansen, Sølvi & Stänicke, Line Indrevoll (Ed.),
Klinisk tenkning og psykoanalyse.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISSN 9788205531338.
p. 221–245.
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Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Kristiansen, Sølvi & Stänicke, Line Indrevoll
(2019).
Forord.
In Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Kristiansen, Sølvi & Stänicke, Line Indrevoll (Ed.),
Klinisk tenkning og psykoanalyse.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISSN 9788205531338.
p. 7–8.
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Gullestad, Siri Erika; Strømme, Hanne; Stänicke, Erik & Varvin, Sverre
(2015).
Uviten om psykoanalyse.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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Strømme, Hanne; Lindgren, Thomas; Hau, Stephan & Oddli, Hanne
(2014).
Psychotherapeutic competence in supervision and therapy (CIST). The Nordic Psychotherapy Training Study.
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Szőnyi, Gábor; Kardos, Timea & Strømme, Hanne
(2014).
Training Experience and Professional Development. Interviewing Phase and Content Analysis. Interpretative Phenomenological Thematic Analysis (IPA).
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Szőnyi, Gábor; Kardos, Timea & Strømme, Hanne
(2014).
Psychoanalytic training. Comparative study of regular and nonregular settings in Europe. EPF and PIEE Project. First results.
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Lorentzen, Steinar; Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Vanberg, Morten & Haraldsen, Ira Hebold
(2012).
Tanker på villspor.
Morgenbladet.
ISSN 0805-3847.
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Strømme, Hanne
(2012).
Psychodynamic therapy: Different supervision approaches and competence assessments among experienced supervisors.
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Lorentzen, Steinar; Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Vanberg, Morten & Haraldsen, Ira Hebold
(2012).
Psykoterapiforskning, psykodynamisk terapi og maktkamp.
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet).
ISSN 0332-6470.
49(5).
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Lorentzen, Steinar; Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Vanberg, Morten & Haraldsen, Ira Hebold
(2012).
Upresis forskningsgjengivelse av psykodynamisk terapi.
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet).
ISSN 0332-6470.
49(3).
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Stänicke, Erik & Strømme, Hanne
(2012).
Snevert om god psykologisk behandling.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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