Johan Cullberg



Johan Cullberg (6 January 1934 – 14 June 2022)  was a Swedish professor in psychiatry and psychology, researcher, psychoanalyst, and author of a number of internationally recognised textbooks.

Career
He started his career at the department of gynecology at the Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm studying the effects of birth control. He became head of one of the outpatient clinics in the Nacka Project, doing groundbreaking work on psychiatric care outside the hospital in Sweden. He was recognised for advocacy of lower doses of antipsychotic medicine, reduction in compulsory treatment and more humane psychiatric care. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize (Swedish: Doblougska Priset), a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy in 2008.

Cullberg was the son of bishop John Cullberg and brother of painters Erland Cullberg and Carin Adler, and of Staffan Cullberg, who has been head of the Swedish National Arts Council.

Bibliography (partial)

 * Crisis and Development (1975) (revised 1992)
 * Creating Crisis (1992) ISBN 91-27-06697-5
 * Dynamic Psychiatry in Theory and Practice (1993) ISBN 9127035719
 * Mänskliga gränsområden - About extase, psykos and gale creation. Johan Cullberg, Karin Johannisson, and Owe Wikström (red). (1996) ISBN 91-27-05831-X
 * Psychoses, a humanist and biological perspective (2000) ISBN 91-27-07972-4
 * Evolving Psychosis (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses) (2006) Johan Cullberg with Jan Olav Johannessen, and Brian V. Martindale ISBN 978-1-58391-992-7
 * My psychiatric life, Memoires (2007)
 * My psychiatric life, Memoires (2007)