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Siri Erika Gullestad

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A 0373 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic Interests

  • Psychoanalysis and dynamic psychotherapy; casuistic method, conceptual research.
  • Supervision of psychotherapy.
  • I have worked conceptually and empirically with outcome studies of dynamic psychotherapy.
  • Psychoanalytic interpretation of literature.

Higher education and employment history

  • Cand. psychol. 1978 from Department of psychology Uinversity of Oslo. Dr. philos. 1991; theme of dissertation is the concept of autonomy within psychoanalytic theory.
  • Professor of clinical psychology at the Department of psychology, UiO from 1997.
  • Working at Clinic for psychodynamic therapy; for several periods I have been director of this clinic.
  • Specialist in clinical psychology with intensive psychotherapy, Norwegian Psychological Association (NPF); practicing psychoanalyst authorised as training and supervising analyst, International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
  • Former president of Norwegian Psychoanalytic Association.
  • Long experience as psychotherapist, supervisor and lecturer.

Appointments

  • Head of department, Department of Psychology, 2008-
  • Coordinator UiO, Project Double Competence
  • President, Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, 2006-2008
Tags: Clinical psychology

Publications

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Gullestad, Siri Erika; Killingmo, Bjørn & Magnussen, Svein (red.) (2009). Klinikk og laboratorium. Psykologi i hundre år. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-01563-7. 301 s.

Gullestad, Siri Erika (2006). Arven fra Freud. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. (4), s 317- 330

Gullestad, Siri Erika & Killingmo, Bjørn (2005). Underteksten. Psykoanalytisk terapi i praksis. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 82-15-00893-3. 257 s.

Gullestad, Siri Erika (2005). In the beginning was the affect. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 28(1), s 3- 10

Gullestad,Siri Erika (2005). Who is 'who' in dissociation? A plea for psychodynamics in a time of trauma. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 86

Gullestad, Siri Erika (2003). The Adult Attachment Interview and psychoanalytic outcome studies. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 84, s 651- 668 Gullestad,

Siri Erika & Killingmo, Bjørn (2002). Dybdeintervjuet: Dialogen bak dialogen., I: Det kliniske intervjuet. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 82-05-30443-2. kapittel 5. s 123 - 147

Gullestad, Siri Erika & Theophilakis, Mary (1997). En umulig profesjon? Om opplæring i intensiv dynamisk psykoterapi.. Universitetforlaget, Oslo. ISBN 82-00-22777-4. 222 s.

Gullestad, Siri Erika & Lippe, Anna Louise von der (red.) (1984). Kvinner i psykologien. Portretter av ni pionerer [Woemn in Psychology - portraits of nine pioneers]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

 

  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Knutsen, Tormod; Stänicke, Erik & Hvalstad, Mette (2026). Letter from Oslo. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. p. 287–296. doi: 10.1080/00207578.2026.2647565. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2025). Murderous narcissism in a terrorist act : A psychoanalytic perspective 1, Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue. Routledge. ISSN 9781032932989. p. 53–65. doi: https:/www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003565284-5/murderous-narcissism-terrorist-act-siri-erika-gullestad?context=ubx&refId=eeebafc7-27bf-4160-a06e-b7315c348316. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2024). Herr über Leben und Tod. Anders B. Breivik und der Terror vom 22. Juli in Oslo. Eine psychoanalytische Perspektive. Personlichkeitsstörungen - Theorie und Therapie. ISSN 1433-6308. 28(3), p. 260–279. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (2024). Introduction: In search of change. In Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (Ed.), Psychoanalytic studies of change - an integrative perspective. Routledge. ISSN 9781032651934. p. 1–6. doi: 10.4324/9781032651934-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2024). In search of change: the role of affirmation. In Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (Ed.), Psychoanalytic studies of change - an integrative perspective. Routledge. ISSN 9781032651934. p. 128–139. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2024). Transgender–a challenge for psychoanalysis? Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. doi: 10.1080/01062301.2024.2432050. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2023). Containing darkness. In Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne; Ambresin, Gilles; Fischmann, Tamara & Solms, Mark (Ed.), On the Dark Side of Chronic Depression. Psychoanalytic, Social-cultural and Research Approaches. Routledge. ISSN 9781032245676. p. 166–171. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2023). Confronting the foreign. Surrealism and psychoanalysis in dialogue. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. doi: 10.1080/01062301.2023.2223028. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jordet, Maria; Gullestad, Siri Erika & Haavind, Hanne (2022). When singing strengthens the capacity to aspire: girls’ reflexivity in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Critical Realism. ISSN 1476-7430. 22(1), p. 7–26. doi: 10.1080/14767430.2022.2095110. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2022). Finding the Mind in the Body. Psychoanalytic inquiry. ISSN 0735-1690. 42(4), p. 244–252. doi: 10.1080/07351690.2022.2059277. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2022). Confronting the foreign. Surrealism and psychoanalysis in dialogue. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 45(1), p. 24–34. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2021). Our contempt for weakness. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. ISSN 1742-3341. p. 1–6. doi: 10.1002/aps.1697. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hanly, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick; Gullestad, Siri Erika; White, Robert & Bernardi, Ricardo (2021). Transformation and interpretation: The case of Adam, a clinical narrative and discussion. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. ISSN 0033-2828. 90(3), p. 439–467. doi: 10.1080/00332828.2021.1938873. Full text in Research Archive
  • White, Robert; Gullestad, Siri Erika & Salesio, Bruno (2021). Three hypotheses on impasse in the case of Janine. In Hanly, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick; Litvan, Marina Altmann de & Bernardi, Ricardo (Ed.), Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis.Transformations and Interventions, The Three Level Model. Routledge. ISSN 9780367560911. p. 165–186. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Hanly, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick & Hvalstad, Mette (2021). “I don’t want to be like my mother”: Exploring changes in identity using the analyst as a model. In Hanly, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick; Litvan, Marina Altmann de & Bernardi, Ricardo (Ed.), Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis.Transformations and Interventions, The Three Level Model. Routledge. ISSN 9780367560911. p. 121–138. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2020). The otherness of sexuality: Exploring the conflicted nature of drive, desire and object choice. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 101(1), p. 64–83. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2020). The otherness of sexuality: Exploring the conflicted nature of drive, desire and object choice. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 101(1), p. 64–83. doi: 10.1080/00207578.2019.1686390. Full text in Research Archive
  • Jordet, Maria & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2020). Egen stemme - En studie av å synge som individuasjon. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 57(9), p. 646–656. doi: 10.52734/4UZ6jJw5. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stänicke, Line Indrevoll; Haavind, Hanne; Rø, Frida Gullestad & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2019). Discovering One’s Own Way: Adolescent Girls’ Different Pathways Into and Out of Self-Harm. Journal of Adolescent Research. ISSN 0743-5584. p. 1–30. doi: 10.1177/0743558419883360. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2018). Talende taushet. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 55(6), p. 459–466. Full text in Research Archive
  • Rønnestad, Michael Helge; Nissen-Lie, Helene A; Oddli, Hanne; Benum, Kirsten; Ekroll, Vidar Blokhus & Gullestad, Siri Erika [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2018). Expanding the Conceptualization of Outcome and Clinical Effectiveness. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. ISSN 0022-0116. 49, p. 87–97. doi: 10.1007/s10879-018-9405-z. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2018). Seksualitet i et psykoanalytisk perspektiv : et forsvar for drift og begjær. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 55(9), p. 807–821. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stänicke, Line Indrevoll; Haavind, Hanne & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2018). How do young people understand their own self-harm? A meta-synthesis of adolescents' subjective experience of self-harm. Adolescent Research Review. ISSN 2363-8346. 3(2), p. 173–191. doi: 10.1007/s40894-018-0080-9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2017). Anders Behring Breivik, master of life and death: Psychodynamics and political ideology in an act of terrorism. International Forum of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0803-706X. doi: 10.1080/0803706X.2017.1333138. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2015). How to capture character through the patient's Language? Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 38(1), p. 31–37. doi: 10.1080/01062301.2015.1040335. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2014). Dynamic psychotherapy: a model for teaching and supervision in China. In Scharff, David & Varvin, Sverre (Ed.), Psychoanalysis in China. Karnac Books. ISSN 9781780490830. p. 231–242. doi: 10.4324/9780429478826-26. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2014). "Jeg vil ikke slutte". Utfordringer for terapeuten. 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. 131–149. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2014). Når pasienten forelsker seg i terapeuten : om den såkalte overføringskjærligheten. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. 32(1/2), p. 30–49. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2014). Close to observation: some reflections on the value of the three-level-model for studying change. In Litvan, Marina Altmann de (Eds.), Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model. Karnac Books. ISSN 9781782201816. p. 163–171. doi: 10.4324/9780429484032-6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2013). Die Seele im Körper entdecken. Eine Fallstudie. In Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne; Emde, Robert N. & Pfeifer, Rolf (Ed.), Embodiment - ein innovatives Konzept fur Entwicklungsforschung und Psychoanalyse. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISSN 9783525451304. p. 385–408. doi: 10.13109/9783666451300.385. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2013). Ideological Destructiveness. Division/Review. ISSN 2166-3653. p. 29–36. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2013). Ideologi og personlighet. 22. juli i et psykologisk perspektiv. In Jupskås, Anders Ravik & Jupskås, Anders Ravik (Ed.), Akademiske perspektiver på 22. juli. Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788232101313. p. 59–71. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2012). Psykoanalyse og ideologi. In Gilbert, Sidsel Kari; Stänicke, Erik & Engelstad, Fredrik (Ed.), Psyke, kultur og samfunn: Perspektiver på indre og ytre virkelighet. Abstrakt forlag. ISSN 9788279353324. p. 201–215. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2012). 22.juli i et psykologisk perspektiv. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 29(1), p. 5–15. Full text in Research Archive
  • Strømme, Hanne & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2012). Disclosure or non-disclosure? An in-depth study of psychodynamic supervision. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 35(2), p. 105–115. doi: 10.1080/01062301.2012.10662648. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelstad, Irene & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2012). Fedre og sønner. En litteraturforsker og en psykoanalytiker leser Sigmund Freud og Karl Ove Knausgård. In Øverland, Janneken & Engelstad, Irene (Ed.), Freud, psykoanalyse og litteratur. Artikler. Gyldendal Litteratur. ISSN 9788205429949. p. 145–170. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2011). Om veiledning av dynamisk psykoterapi - spesielle utfordringer. In Rønnestad, Michael Helge & Reichelt, Sissel (Ed.), Veiledning i psykoterapeutisk arbeid. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215017563. p. 96–109. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2011). Crippled feet. Sadism in Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 34(2), p. 79–84. doi: 10.1080/01062301.2011.10592890. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika & Killingmo, Bjørn (2009). Dybdeintervjuet: Dialogen bak dialogen, Det kliniske intervjuet. Gyldendal Akademisk. p. 123–147. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reichelt, Sissel; Gullestad, Siri Erika; Hansen, Bjørg Røed; Rønnestad, Michael Helge; Torgersen, Anne Mari & Jacobsen, Claus Haugaard [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2009). Nondisclosure in psychotherapy group supervision: The supervisee perspective. Nordic Psychology. ISSN 1901-2276. 61(4), p. 5–27. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skjerve, Jan; Nielsen, Geir Høstmark; Jacobsen, Claus Haugaard; Gullestad, Siri Erika; Hansen, Bjørg Røed & Reichelt, Sissel [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2009). Nondisclosure in psychotherapy group supervision: The supervisor perspective. Nordic Psychology. ISSN 1901-2276. 61(4), p. 28–48. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nielsen, Geir Høstmark; Jacobsen, Claus Haugaard; Skjerve, Jan; Gullestad, Siri Erika; Hansen, Bjørg Røed & Reichelt, Sissel [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2009). Mutual assumptions and facts about nondisclosure among clinical supervisors and students: A comparative analysis. Nordic Psychology. ISSN 1901-2276. 61(4), p. 49–58. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2008). Die Dynamik de Dissoziation am Beispiel der Multiplen Persönlichkeitsstörung. In Leuzinger, Marianne; Roth, Gerard & Buchheim, Anna (Ed.), Psychoanalyse - Neurobiologie - Trauma. Schattauer Gmbh. ISSN 9783794525478. p. 55–66. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2007). "Thinking" - in a psychoanalytic perspective. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 30(2), p. 94–97. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2007). Psychoanalysis and empirical research. Comments on a doctoral dissertation. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 30(2), p. 113-117–113-117. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2006). Arven fra Freud. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. p. 317–330. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2005). Who is 'who' in dissociation? A plea for psychodynamics in a time of trauma. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 86. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2005). In the beginning was the affect. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 28(1), p. 3–10. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2004). Selvavsløring - et nyttig terapeutisk virkemiddel? Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 41, p. 487–488. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2003). One depression of many? Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 26, p. 123–130. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2003). The Adult Attachment Interview and psychoanalytic outcome studies. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. ISSN 0020-7578. 84, p. 651–668. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2003). Hugo Bleichmar: Algunos subticos de depresión, sus interrelaciones y consecuencias para el tratamiento psycoanaítico. Comentario de Siri Gullestad - Respuesta de Siri Gullestad. Aperturas Psycoanalíticas. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2001). Attachment theory and psychoanalysis. Controversial issues. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. ISSN 0106-2301. 24, p. 3–16. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2001). Hva er evidensbasert psykoterapi? Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 38, p. 942–951. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2000). Om å lytte til pasienten, Medisinske feil. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788241711404. p. 169–181. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2000). Tilknytningsteori og psykoanalyse, Psykoterapi og psykoterapiveiledning: Teori, empiri, praksis. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788241711978. p. 45–70. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (1999). Den fortrolige samtalen. Om opplæring av psykologistudenter i psykoterapeutisk kommunikasjon. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 36(5), p. 428–435. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne; Hau, Stephan; Lerner, Rogério; Stänicke, Erik & Gullestad, Siri Erika (2025). Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue. Routledge. ISBN 9781032932989. 266 p. doi: 10.4324/9781003565284. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (2024). Psychoanalytic studies of change - an integrative perspective. Routledge. ISBN 9781032651934. 240 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Stänicke, Erik & Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne (2024). In search of change: The role of affirmation. Routledge. ISBN 9781032651927. 10 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika (2021). Å begjære den du elsker - om lengselen etter spenning og behovet for trygghet. J.M. Stenersens Forlag AS. ISBN 9788272017285. 168 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika & Killingmo, Bjørn (2020). The theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Listening for the subtext. Routledge. ISBN 9781138364349. 257 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Killingmo, Bjørn & Magnussen, Svein (2009). Klinikk og laboratorium. Psykologi i hundre år. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215015637. 301 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika; Killingmo, Bjørn & Magnussen, Svein (2009). Laboratorium og klinikk. Psykologisk institutt i Oslo 100 år. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215015637. 301 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gullestad, Siri Erika & Killingmo, Bjørn (2005). Underteksten. Psykoanalytisk terapi i praksis. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215008936. 257 p. Full text in Research Archive

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