Dr. Sverre Varvin

Sverre Varvin, MD. DPhil is a training and supervising analyst of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society. He is professor emeritus at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has been working clinically and with research on traumatization and the treatment of traumatized patients, especially in the refugee field. He has done process and outcome research on psychoanalytic therapy, research on traumatic dreams, and on psychoanalytic training. He has for many years worked and been director for training programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in China.

He would like to promote teaching and research on severely traumatized people and of migration and exile at IPU. Promoting the transcultural dimension of psychoanalysis is of utmost importance. He sees collaboration with research groups on these themes and IPU may be a possibility.