Björn Philips Professor
Contact
Name and title: Björn PhilipsProfessor
Workplace: Department of Psychology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Albanovägen 12
Postal address Psykologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
Research group
About me
The main area for my research and teaching is psychodynamic therapy, especially contemporary variants such as mentalization-based therapy, affect-focused therapy, and relational psychotherapy. My clinical experience is mainly from psychiatric services for adults and it covers a fairly broad spectrum of psychological disorders, such as personality disorders, psychosis, depression, and substance use disorders. I teach at both the psychologist programme and the psychotherapist programme, primarily about psychodynamic diagnosis and treatment, as well as research methods.
My dissertation was carried through in 2005 at the Karolinska Institutet, Department for clinical neuroscience, Psychotherapy section. The doctoral thesis was called "Ideas of cure related to psychotherapy outcome: Young adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy".
Subsequently, I was the project leader for two studies conducted at Stockholm County Council, Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders, and Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Psychiatry Research: "Matching and Outcome of Psychotherapy at Addiction Clinics in Sweden (MOPACS)" and "Mentalization-Based Treatment for Dual Diagnosis (MBTDD) – A Randomized Controlled Trial". During the years 2011-2016 I worked at Linköping University, first as senior lecturer and later as associate professor, and during that time I was engaged in research collaborations focusing on practice-based psychotherapy research, which means naturalistic studies that are close to the clinical reality. As associate professor at Linköping University I was main supervisor for My Frankl (PhD in 2017) and Ylva Söderberg Gidhagen (PhD in 2018), and co-supervisor for Carl-Johan Uckelstam (PhD in 2021).
From 2018, I am the project leader of the research project EaRly internet-based interventions for Children and Adolescents (ERiCA). Together with professor Per Carlbring i supervised the PhD students Karin Lindqvist (PhD in 2023) and Jakob Mechler (PhD in 2023) who work within this project. The ERiCA project studies internet-delivered psychological treatment for depressed adolescents and project receives external funding of 5.7 million SEK from the Kavli Trust during the years 2019-2023. The project is conducted in collaboration with Linköping University. The project focuses on a recently developed affect-focused internet-delivered psychodynamic therapy (IPDT), which is tested in a series of randomized controlled trials.
The study web site is www.erica.nu.
During 2023 and 2024, I am leading the project “Group therapy in psychiatric care for complex and long-term problems”, carried out in collaboration with Northern Stockholm Psychiatry, Region Stockholm. In this project, we are conducting a pilot study regarding a short term treatment for patients with complex and long-term problems: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy – Group (ISTDP-G).
I manage the Stockholm University research group for Process and Outcome in Psychodynamic therapies (SU-POP).