Sverre Varvin

Sverre Varvin, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst, and a past President of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society. He is senior researcher at the Norwegian centre for studies on violence and traumatic stress, affiliated to the University of Oslo, and his main research areas are the traumatisation and treatment of traumatised patients, traumatic dreams, and psychoanalytic training. He has held several positions in the IPA (e.g. Vice-president, Board representative, member of research committees), and is currently chair of the program committee for the next IPAC in Prague, and a member of the China Committee.

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Psychoanalysis in China

Psychoanalysis in China

Edited by David E. Scharff, Sverre Varvin

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The introduction of psychoanalysis to China over the last twenty years brings a clash between Eastern and Western philosophical backgrounds. Chinese patients, therapists and trainees struggle with... (more)

Psychoanalysis in Asia: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan

Psychoanalysis in Asia: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan

Edited by Alf Gerlach, Maria Teresa Savio Hooke

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The world is looking East. Whilst in the West psychoanalysis is fighting to maintain its position among the other therapies in a society which has less time for introspection and self-reflective... (more)

Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

Edited by Sverre Varvin, Vamik D. Volkan

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Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)

Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience

Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience

by Sverre Varvin

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Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences through war, forced migrations,... (more)

Violence or Dialogue?: Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

Violence or Dialogue?: Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

Edited by Sverre Varvin, Vamik D. Volkan

  • Paperback £36.99

Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)

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