Per Magnus Johansson
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Certified psychotherapist.
Current places of residence: Gothenburg and Paris.
Per Magnus Johansson is a psychoanalyst, associate professor in the History of Ideas and Learning, and a writer with close ties to the French intellectual milieu. He has written about the history of psychoanalysis in Sweden, the history of psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology in Gothenburg, and has also highlighted the criticism of psychoanalysis. He has published sixteen books, a large number of scientific articles, just over a hundred cultural articles and introduced around twenty anthologies. Johansson has extensive clinical experience and supervises psychologists, doctors, and managers in primary care and psychiatry, among other areas. He is the founder of the Association for French Psychoanalysisand a member of Ars Dogmatica in Paris. Johansson is the editor and publisher of the cultural journal Arche, which was named cultural journal of the year in 2018, and the publishing company Arche Press. For just over thirty years, he has been holding seminars and lectures on current issues in order to highlight historical, social science, and psychoanalytic perspectives in different contexts. Johansson frequently participates in the public discourse, in the media and writes regular columns in Göteborgs-Posten, and has also published feature articles in Svenska Dagbladet. He became a licensed psychologist in 1982, a licensed psychotherapist in 1986, a specialist in clinical psychology in 1994, a doctor in the history of ideas in 1999 (PhD), and became an associate professor in 2003 in the same subject. He was the head teacher of the training program for licensed psychotherapists at the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg between 1999 and 2023.
Per Magnus Johansson received his psychoanalytic education in Paris from Pierre Legendre (1930–2023), a legal historian, active at the École pratique des hautes études, and a psychoanalyst – Analyste de l’École – at the psychoanalytic school founded by Jacques Lacan, the École freudienne de Paris.
Johansson is the head of education for the Institute for Modern Psychoanalysis, founded in 2025. In the spring of 2026, he published the acclaimed book Om skrivande, which was published by Fri Tanke.
From 2007 to 2013, he was chairman of the ethics council at the Swedish Psychological Association. In 2006, he received the award Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques[1](Officer in the Order of Academic Palms) from the French Ministry of Education and Science. In 2014, he was elected into the Royal Society of Sciences and Arts in Gothenburg, founded in 1778. In 2024, he received the City of Gothenburg’s work grant for writers.
[1] Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques is one of France’s most prominent and oldest awards. It is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to education and the promotion of French culture and science.