Jan Bergström Assistant Professor
Contact
Name and title: Jan BergströmAssistant Professor
Phone: +468163910
ORCID0000-0003-2157-1649 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Psychology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Albanovägen 12
Postal address Psykologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
Director of Studies of the Postgraduate Psychotherapist Program and Specialist Training Program in Clinical Psychology
Head of the Stockholm University Psychology Clinic
I am a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist (CBT) and psychotherapy supervisor with a PhD in clinical psychology.
Since 2010 I am Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology where I am currently Director of Studies of the Postgraduate Psychotherapist Program and Specialist Training Program in Clinical Psychology as well as Head of the Stockholm University Psychology Clinic.
My main areas of interest are functional analytic aspects of depression and anxiety (such as rumination and mental rituals) and their treatment.
I have worked as a psychologist since 2002. Besides my work at Stockholm University, I am clinically active as a psychologist and cognitive behavioural therapist at my own private practice in Stockholm. I speak Swedish, English, French and German and I have basic knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic. I have a BA in French (Literature, Stockholm University), a BA in German (Literature, Stockholm University) and a MA in Romance Languages (Literature, Uppsala University).
My main areas of teaching are within different aspects of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), clinical behavior analysis and psychopathology. I also do psychotherapy supervision (CBT).
More specifically, my primary domains of teaching are functional analytic aspects of depression, anxiety and psychotherapy supervision, exposure based therapy for anxiety- and obsessive compulsive disorders, behavioral approaches for depression as well as Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP).
I have several international collaborations within psychotherapy education/training, primarily in the French-speaking world. The most extensive of these is the CBT training program in Algeria (webpage in Swedish) that I pursue with French, Canadian and Algerian colleagues since 2012.
My current main research area is exposure based therapy for anxiety- and obsessive compulsive disorders as well as digital psychological interventions. I am co-supervisor for PhD student Jón Ingi Hlynsson and his PhD-project "Something Intrusive This Way Comes*: Innovating OCD Treatment with Augmented Reality" within the European/EU-funded multicenter study ZeroOCD. The main objectives of digital CBT applications are to broaden the scope of traditional CBT and to make such interventions accessible to a greater number of those suffering from common mental health problems.
Other main areas of interest are interdisciplinary perspectives between clinical psychology and different areas within the humanities such as literature and language. My publications include essays on modernist classics such as Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" and Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" (both building on Martin Hägglunds works on "secular faith"). One of many examples of the analogies between behavior analytical and literary perspectives on psychological/human phenomena is expressed in my teaching on "The Proustian Self and the Behaviorist I" (PDF in Swedish).
I am also involved in the field of Cross-Cultural Psychology as researcher in the psychological intervention study Raha for speakers of Arabic or Farsi/Dari.
Furthermore, I am also interested in broader metatheoretical (philosophical, religious/spiritual, gender- and sexuality-related) aspects of psychotherapy.
* A paraphrase of the line "Something wicked this way comes" (Act 4, Scene 1, "Macbeth", William Shakespeare, 1623).
