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Welcome to psychologist Susanna Carolusson.

Hello!

Who I am:
I grew up in a time when Mrs. Anderson looked after the stairwell so that we children were not playing in the basement. I miss the moral courage and the social solidarity which then was considered a virtue. My teacher left us in the classroom and picked up Tommy in his home, when he skipped class. I shun those days’ respect for authority which was based on fear and defended as “good upbringing”. I love Kent Andersson's poems. Cornelis Vreeswijk was also nice.

I have many friends throughout the world and I feel that the Earth is relatively small and that the differences between continents are less than the differences between people - perhaps the greatest difference is between those who can question and those who cling to dogma. Both types are everywhere. Adorno was a wise sociologist who described this long ago.

It is primarily of professional reasons I care to have a website at all. I'm ambivalent to the web, blogging, and that almost all communication that used to be done through personal meetings, telephone or letter, is now online.

I sit at the computer in my spare time about 15 hours per week, primarily to answer email, to create publications and also to prepare my forthcoming lectures.

Therefore, I long to move around outdoors. And I do that every week, not least to keep me healthy. I love mountains, oceans and views. There I get spiritual nourishment and my mind creates its own vitality, from a state in which I do nothing but being there with my whole body. I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, educator and mentor. I think this is good enough, and I have not taken the title “coach”, but if that is what you prefer to me, you are welcome.

Interesting events behind us: 2008 I held a course in Italy with eight selected women from different countries. Our book Women's Voices by psychologist C. Casula as editor came out in 2009 (in Italian only, English translation will come later ).

In Gothenburg, I was invited to talk with relatives of people with disabilities. The air around a family group vibrates with emotion, despair, desire and power! Intense undertones are created in meetings with families of accident victims and/ or disabled people. I am grateful to the participants for their sincere dedication. I supervise psychotherapists and other treatment and health care professionals, and those working with disabled people. In May and December each year I usually am, in addition to regular activities, engaged as a teacher at the University of Gothenburg, psychology program’s final course in clinical practice. In autumn 2009, students from these courses continued in "Basic Course level 2 of hypnosis" in cooperation with SSCH (Hypnosis Association).

2008 SSCH Southern branch arranged with Danish Society for Clinical Hypnosis and Psychologist Association for Clinical Hypnose a Nordic conference on Treatment of stress with hypnosis. The keynote speaker was Professor Etzel Cárdena, myself and PhD, psychologist Gunnar Rosén.

Photo: Rome, XVIII Int Soc. Congress of Hypnosis. Bertil Vallien’s “Brains” is held up by the former President of ISH Eric Vermetten. Awardee: Psychologist Claude Virot from France.

I have now been published in Italian! I can not read that language but those who can will get a very exciting reading about health and self-care with emphasis on the situation of women in Western cultures. The book has already sold over 1000 copies! See below Publications.

From 2008 - continously, I have lectured worldwide on topics such as: Acquired brain injury, integrity, psychotic reactions, crises, family situation and communication; (see my book on brain injury)
South Africa, Nepal, London; Royal Society of Medicine, Austria and Sweden.

Basic and advaced training in hypnosis are ongoing projects all the time.
I am the principle (or principessa? ;-) ) of a teaching faculty in SSCH Gothenburg and we really enjoy teaching hypnosis to clinical psychotherapists.

Swedish Psychology Students are really proactive! 2010 and 2011 they have arranged a student conference in the format of an amazing "Open Space"! I joined as a representative of SSCH and I admire the students’ initiative and organisational capacity.

My book There is Someomne in There is now on line.

In October, I lectured on Dalheimers House again. The conference theme this year was "Bereavement". I talked about what it means to have cognitive impairments after brain injury and the "grief" that family members have difficulties to express. I will also finish my latest manuscript, a not yet published book about psychological symptoms and the neuro-psychological complexity that can not be simplified or generalized. Empathy is a key word and a very difficult art with this group.

On 22 October I lectured and joined discussion groups at a student conference on the future for psychologists with 475 participants. An amazing "Open Space" congress!

Upcoming events

August 2011 I am participating in a hypnosis convention in Istanbul. See www.hypnosforeningen.se and the link to this congress, for further details.

Plans for the summer 2011: Enjoy my three grandchildren, spend vacation with my very commuting husband (Bei Jing – Lund – Gothenburg every month), dance, run, swim and do the gardening.

Sincerely,

Susanna

www.carolussons.se