The Division of Psychology

Erik is director of studies at the department of psychology, he is a psychologist, PhD, docent in clinical psychology at the Karolinska Institutet and chairman of the Swedish Association of Clinical Psychologists.

Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, Director of the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge and the author of several influential books visited the department on October 27 and gave a lecture at the Karolinska Institutet Psychology Speaker Series

Bernard and Barbro Osher donate USD 2,100,000 (approx. SEK 23 million) to the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Karolinska Institutet. The donation follows an earlier donation in 2005 from the same donors.

Lecture series with speakers focusing on Goal 10 - Reducing Inequalities. Organized by the Department of Psychology

The Division of Psychology arranges a climate psychology lecture series with international researchers during the spring 2022.

Julie Lasselin at the Division for Psychology and Osher center for integrative medicine has been awarded the Robert Ader New Investigator Award from the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society. This prestigious award is presented to an outstanding new research scientist who has made exciting basic science or clinical contributions to the field of PNI. 

The WHO has recently published a report on chronic pain in children. Rikard Wicksell from the Department of Psychology has participated as an external reviewer of the report.

Being socially active generally increases your chances of getting a good night’s sleep. But if you are active late into the evening, it reduces the number of hours you sleep – and can also affect your social life. 

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have compared two ways of delivering cognitive behavioral therapy to treat people with health anxiety, a condition that may increase in the wake of COVID-19.