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Elisabeth Punzi
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social WorkAbout Elisabeth Punzi
Biography
Clinical psychologist, specialized in clinical psychology, specialized in neuropsychology. I have worked with clients with various psychosocial difficulties, in marignalized situations. PhD in psychology and associate professor.
Teaching
I mainly teach qualitative methods and courses in mental health, disability, trauma, crisis and substance misuse. I am also director of doctoral studies.
Research interests
I write about how people with severe mental healthissues and/or intellectual disability can receive adequate and person-centred interventions, not least in cases of violence. I often start from an existential, humanistic, critical, Mad studies or psychoanalytical perspective.
In addition, I write about how creative expressions can support recovery, involvement in education and practical activities.
I am interested in the cultural heritage of psychiatry and who "has the right" to define history and cultural heritage. Who will tell the story when old psychiatric institutions are converted into business parks and housing estates? Which human efforts and perspectives were there before in the world, which we can learn from? I collaborate with people who are or have been users of psychiatry, for example within the association Mad Heritage & contemporary arts.
In addition to this, I examine the relationship between Judaism and psychoanalysis, especially Sigmund Freud's Jewish identity, how he and other Jews were exposed to anti-Semitism, and how his approach and psychoanalysis as a discipline need to be understood against this background.
Current research
I have received funding from RJ to establish an international, interdisciplinary network that touches on narrative, creative expression and clinical practice. The network is led by myself and Jarmila Mildorf, Paderborn University, Christoph Singer, Innsbruck University and Cornelia Wächter, Dresden University. Together, we are editors for the book series Narratives and Mental Health, which is published by the academic publisher Brill.
At the turn of the year 2023-2024, I started a three-year research project financed by the crime victims' fund. The project is called Crime victims with intellectual disabilities. To identify the target group and improve the response using the LDSQ questionnaire. I have the project together with Mikaela Starke and Johan Hagborg Melander. I am also involved in a Forte-funded project led by Mikaela Starke where, together with representatives of the city of Gothenburg, we are investigating how social services can better work together to support people with intellectual disabilities who are exposed to violence.
I also have a research project together with Kompetenscentrum kultur och hälsa, Region Stockholm where I research Creative Workshop, a creative operation for patients in affective Psychiatry, Stockholm Södra.
Previously, I have participated in a project on the renovation of housing led by Professor Paula Femenias, Chalmers, where I particularly look at psychosocial factors and how renovation is experienced by the residents, as well as being a researcher in a project led by docent Lisa Rudolfsson that deals with response of women who have been raped. The studies took into account the perspective of the women, the medical staff and the police on how treatment works today and how it can be improved. Together with Mikaela Starke and Anneli Larsson, I had a research project on violence against people with intellectual disabilities. It was done in collaboration with the the Swedish agency for participation and we focused on what knowledge about violence is available for professionals, and what methods to identify violence and support vcitims, are used, and not least what knowledge and efforts are needed.
In addition, together with doctoral student Mostafa Hosseini, I had a research project on how newly arrived young people from Afghanistan perceive integration and what they see as strengthening a sense of belonging.
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Judiska begravningsplatser och ritualer vid livets
slut
Elisabeth Punzi, Jens Carlesson Magalhães, Dan Fibert
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Truth-Telling, Aging, and Healing From Institutional Psychiatric Violence: A Life Story and Mad Studies
Perspective
Elisabeth Punzi, Gunnel Bergstrand
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry - 2024 -
Lillhagen Is Still Elsewhere: Approaching a Dismantled Mental
Hospital
Elisabeth Punzi, Helena Lindbom
Narrating the heritage of psychiatry - 2024 -
Narrating the heritage of
psychiatry
Elisabeth Punzi, Cornelia Wächter, Christoph Singer
2024 -
To Belong: Narratives About Family Belonging Among Children in Foster Families or Where Custody has been
Transferred
Sara Larsson, Elisabeth Punzi, Therese Wissö
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal - 2024 -
Judiskt liv i
Göteborg
Pia Lundqvist, Elisabeth Punzi
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Caring for Undocumented Migrants: Significance of Recognition and Respect during Healthcare
Encounters
Lena Andersson, Elisabeth Punzi
Issues in Mental Health Nursing - 2024 -
Persons with intellectual disabilities and their risk of exposure to abuse
and violence: identification and prevention – a literature
review
Mikaela Starke, Anneli Larsson, Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities - 2024 -
Nääs slott och slöjdseminarium - modernitet, slöjd och
bildning
Elisabeth Punzi, Anders Hammarlund, Marie Hjalmarsson Engelke,
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Jiddisch. Språk, kitsch och
kultur
Elisabeth Punzi, Staffan Böös
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Research Interviews as Interaction and Therapeutic Possibility: A Relational Psychoanalytic
Approach
Elisabeth Punzi
Inspecting the Interview A Companion - 2024 -
Encounters
Paul Hansen, Elisabeth Punzi
Presentation på konferensen Social Work as Emancipatory Practice. Creating Pathways towards Social Justice, GU. - 2024 -
Heritage from Below: Co-creating Jewish Narratives. Keynote
presentation.
Elisabeth Punzi, Jenny Högström Berntson
Keynote vid konferensen Jewish Cultural Heritage: Grand Forum, 2-6 Juni 2024, Jewish Historical Institute, German Historical Institute & POLIN, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warszawa - 2024 -
Sites of conscience. Place, memory, and the project of
deinstitutionalization,
Elisabeth Punzi, Linda Steele
2024 -
Jiddisch, språkfrämjande och levande
kultur
Elisabeth Punzi, Tomas Woodski
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Judisk musikkultur i
Sverige
Elisabeth Punzi, Anders Hammarlund, Benjamin Gerber
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
Minnen och berättelser om flykt och
identitet
Elisabeth Punzi, Johan Melander Hagborg, Lisa Granér
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
En introduktion till
Shmues!
Jenny Högström Berntson, Elisabeth Punzi, Shahar Isak
Shmues! Judiskt kulturarv i Sverige - 2024 -
A place to have a cup of coffee: Remembering and returning to a dismantled psychiatric
hospital.
Helena Lindbom, Elisabeth Punzi
Sites of conscience. Place, memory, and the project of deinstitutionalization - 2024 -
"Through my poems, I wanted a sense of recognition": Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors' experiences of poetic writing, migration, and
resettlement
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Poetry Therapy - 2023 -
“Through my poems, I wanted a sense of recognition”: Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ experiences of poetic writing, migration, and
resettlement
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Poetry Therapy - 2023 -
Beteendeproblem
Elisabeth Punzi, Malin Hildebrand Karlén, Ann-Sophie Lindqvist Bagge
Handbok i missbruks- och beroendepsykologi - 2023 -
Barnens judiska kulturarv. Hur ser det ut i
framtiden?
Elisabeth Punzi, Jenny Högström Berntson, Olle Widhe
Samtal om kulturarv i Göteborgs synagoga. Samarrangemang GU och Judiska församlingen inom ramen för Bokmässan med temat Judisk kultur. - 2023 -
Poesins plats i det terapeutiska rummet. J. Alfredsson & J. Pennlert
(Red:er).
Elisabeth Punzi
Poesins platser. Om diktens betydelse i perifera och populära rum - 2023 -
The Art of Teaching the Art of Listening: An Interview Study with University Teachers in Clinical Psychology and Social
Work
Elisabeth Punzi, Malgorzata Erikson
Narrative and mental health. Reimagining theory and practice. - 2023 -
Practitioners’ self-reported knowledge about violence against disabled
people
Anneli Larsson, Elisabeth Punzi, Mikaela Starke
https://nndr2023.is/ - 2023 -
Multi design study to capture people with intellectual disabilities and their exposure to violence and preventive
work
Mikaela Starke, Anneli Larsson, Elisabeth Punzi, Maria Melin, Maria Montefusco
NNDR 16th Research Conference - 2023 -
Narratives and Mental Health: An
Introduction
Jarmila Mildorf, Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer
Narrative and Mental Health: Reimagining Theory and Practice - 2023 -
The Father(s) in Moses and Monotheism and Fanny and Alexander: A Closer Look at Isak Jacobi, the Jewish Magical
Savior
Elisabeth Punzi
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman. From Freud to Lacan and Beyond. - 2023 -
Edouard Louis, his mother, and the meandering shame of
poverty
Elisabeth Punzi
Autobiographical writing and the gestalt of shame. Interdisciplinary workshop. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 23 & 24 June, 2023 - 2023 -
Judiskt matarv: cholent, challah och
kifoloch
Elisabeth Punzi, Elisabeth Fogel
Matarvspodden - 2023 -
Narrative and mental health. Reimagining theory and
practice.
Jarmila Mildorf, Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer
2023 -
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological
analysis.
Elisabeth Punzi
European Journal of Social Work - 2022 -
“I want to contribute to the new country” Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors and their own perceptions of integration. Results from a Swedish interview
study
Elisabeth Punzi
Presentation på konferensen Migration and super-diversity: Theory, Method and Practice. GU, 17-18 Mars 2018. - 2022 -
The Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile. Features and applications to
addictions.
Elisabeth Punzi
Patel V.B., Preedy V.R. (eds) Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67928-6_173-1 - 2022 -
Freud and H.D. - Freedom of thought and
speech.
Elisabeth Punzi, Per Magnus Johansson
The Fenris Wolf, Issue 11 - 2022 -
Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse
Analysis
Elisabeth Punzi
Space and Culture - 2022 -
Reflections on the integration of poetry therapy and psychodynamic practice based on an analysis
of the book Tribute to Freud by the poet
H.D.
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of poetry threapy - 2022 -
Dedicated Swedish Football Supporters’ Narratives about Alcohol and Drug Use and Treatment Needs: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Interview
Study
Elisabeth Punzi
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly - 2022 -
Våldsutsatthet för personer med intellektuella
funktionsnedsättningar.
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The voices of vulnerable tenants in
renovation.
Paula Femenias, Elisabeth Punzi, Kaj Granath
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol.1078 - 2022 -
"We will make you feel safe": Female medical staff's experiences of meeting with raped women in
Sweden
Lisa Rudolfsson, Elisabeth Punzi
Feminism & Psychology - 2022 -
Matarvspodden, avsnitt 15: Mat i nöd och
lust.
Elisabeth Punzi, Astrid von Rosen
Matarvspodden - 2022 -
Mad studies, kulturarv &
konst.
Annica Engström, Elisabeth Punzi
2022 -
Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors and the need to problematize and challenge Western perspectives on ‘mental illness’: Results from a Swedish interview
study
Elisabeth Punzi
Presentation at the International conference New perspective in transcultural psychiatry, Berlin, Marc Bloch institute, 3-5 November 2021 - 2021 -
Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors’ understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological
analysis.
Elisabeth Punzi
Smith College studies in social work - 2021 -
Creative writing at a Swedish psychiatric inpatient clinic. Perspectives from the authors who guided the patients. An interview
study.
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Poetry Therapy - 2021 -
Negotiating Institutional Heritage and
Wellbeing
Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter
2021 -
Matarv i skuggan av trauma. Saknad, minne, tröst och hopp. I Matarv. Berättelser om mat som kulturarv. Redaktörer; Anita Synnestvedt & Monica
Gustafsson.
Elisabeth Punzi
Matarv. Berättelser om mat som kulturarv. - 2021 -
Presentation av kulturarvsakademin (förinspelad
film)
Anita Synnestvedt, Monica Gustafsson, Karl Magnusson, Christine Caux Gustavsson, Elisabeth Punzi, Mostafa Hosseini, Jenny Högström Berntson
Museernas vårmöte 2021, 27-29 april - 2021 -
Kreativitetens kraft. Seminarium och workshop. 2 december
2021.
Elisabeth Punzi, Anita Synnestvedt
Kulturhuset Kåken. Seminarieserie. - 2021 -
Rent och orent. Inside the
box.
Elisabeth Punzi, Henrik Bogdan, Jenny Högström Berntson
Podcastserien Inside the box. Ett samarbete mellan Världskulturmuseet och Göteborgs universitet, CCHS. - 2021 -
The art studio in inpatient psychiatric
care
Elisabeth Punzi
Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing, Brill Academic publishers, Spatial practices series - 2021 -
The art activities at Lillhagen and their relevance for current
psychiatry.
Elisabeth Punzi
Outsider Inpatient. Reflections on art as therapy - 2021 -
Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy Paperback – March 6,
2021
Elisabeth Punzi, Vanessa Sinclair
2021 -
Violence and desire described by committed football-supporters in substance abuse treatment. Clinical psychodynamic
findings
Elisabeth Punzi
Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology - 2020 -
"Living poets society" - a qualitative study of how Swedish psychologists incorporate reading and writing in clinical
work
P. Bergqvist, Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Poetry Therapy - 2020 -
Mind the gap. Föreläsning inom ramen för utställningen Mind the gap - a creative programme led by the National Museums of World Culture to facilitate intercultural dialogue, inclusion and equality through digital
storytelling
Elisabeth Punzi
Publik föreläsning vid Världskulturmuseet, 4 mars 2020. - 2020 -
Judar och jiddisch i Sverige
Ett arbete inom området Nationella minoriteter i Västra Götaland, Västarvet, Natur- och kulturarv i Västra
Götaland.
Elisabeth Punzi, Bo Isenberg, Staffan Böös, Monica Gustafsson, Josef Frischer
Västarvet, Kunskap och fakta - 2020 -
Kvinnorna i Ravensbrück.
Invigning av utställning vid Kulturhuset Kåken. Ett samarrangemang mellan Kulturhuset Kåken, Kulturarvsakademin och Kulturarv och hälsa , Center för kritiska kulturarvsstudier
(CCHS).
Elisabeth Punzi, Anita Synnestvedt, Cornelia Nordlund
Publikt arrangemang vid Kulturhuset Kåken - 2020 -
Reading Fiction as a Learning Activity in Clinical Psychology Education:
Students’
Perspectives
Malgorzata Erikson, Martin G. Erikson, Elisabeth Punzi
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - 2020 -
Brave New Psychiatry and the Idealization of Nonplaces: A Critical Discourse
Analysis
Elisabeth Punzi
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry : an International Journal of Critical Inquiry - 2019 -
Art and mental health care as cultural heritage and current
practice
Elisabeth Punzi
Ikon - Journal of the iconographic studies - 2019 -
Jewishness and psychoanalysis - the relationship to identity, trauma and exile. An interview
study
Per Magnus Johansson, Elisabeth Punzi
Jewish Culture and History - 2019 -
Ghost walks or thoughtful remembrance. How should the heritage of psychiatry be
approached?
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy - 2019 -
Challenging complicity in the context of mentalism: Mental distress memoirs and performance
art.
Elisabeth Punzi, Katrin Röder
C. Wächter and R. Wirth (Eds.) Complicity and the politics of representation. - 2019 -
"She is perfect" - Nuancing Freud's view of femininity through reading "Tribute to Freud" with respect to mystical and religious
themes.
Per Magnus Johansson, Elisabeth Punzi
Rendering unconscious. Psychoanalytic perspectives, politics & poetry - 2019 -
Mind The Gap
Presentation integrated in the exhibition Mind the gap - a creative programme led by the National Museums of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) to facilitate intercultural dialogue, inclusion and equality through digital
storytelling
Elisabeth Punzi
Världskulturmuseet, utställning - 2019 -
Struggles with masculinity, sexual orientation and substance misuse in the urban
landscape.
Elisabeth Punzi
Metropolitan masculinities: Narratives of gender and urban space, 29-30 November, University of Bochum, Germany. - 2019 -
Residential movements in connection to renovation of rented multi-residential housing: A pilot
study
P. Femenias, L. Jonsdotter, J. Forsemalm, Elisabeth Punzi, Elena Bogdanova, C. Thodelius, K. Granath
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - 2019 -
Relationships, Emotions, and Defenses Among Patients with Substance Use Disorders, Assessed with Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile: Possibilities to use Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in Substance Abuse
Treatment
Elisabeth Punzi, Karin Lindgren
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly - 2019 -
Rapport. Kreativt skrivande, Psykiatri affektiva,
SU.
Elisabeth Punzi
2019 -
Review of Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry: Social Relations, Psychopathology, and Husserl’s
Philosophy
Elisabeth Punzi
The Humanistic psychologist - 2019 -
‘Any room won’t do.’ Clinical psychologists’ understanding of the consulting room. An interview
study
Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer
Psychodynamic Practice - 2018 -
Elsa-Brita Nordlund
Carin Ulin
Alfhild Tamm
Hanna Bratt
Marianne Frankenhaeuser
Stefi Pedersen
Gertrud Rodhe
Tora Sandström
Daisy Schalling
Alla omskrivna inom Svenskt Kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
(SKBL)
Elisabeth Punzi
Svenskt Kvinnobiografiskt Lexikon - 2018 -
Rapport. Konstateljén, Psykiatri affektiva,
SU.
Elisabeth Punzi
Rapport till Kulturnämnden Västyra Götalandsregionen - 2018 -
A single-question qualitative bachelor’s programme
evaluation
Malgorzata Erikson, Martin G. Erikson, Elisabeth Punzi
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education - 2018 -
The virtues of poetic writing: Implications for clinical practice - An interview
study.
Maria Pohl, Elisabeth Punzi, Olof Berwald
The Humanistic psychologist - 2018 -
A biased ADHD discourse ignores human
uniqueness
Soly Erlandsson , Elisabeth Punzi
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2017 -
Dignity and the goals of
therapy.
Niclas Hagen, Elisabeth Punzi, Ken Richman
Öppet seminarium inom ramen för Medicinsk humaniora - 2017 -
The art of teaching the art of listening - to students in psychology and social
work.
Elisabeth Punzi, Malgorzata Erikson
International conference "Narratives and mental health", Paderborn, Germany - 2017 -
Agentiell realism och diffraktiv
analys
Niclas Hagen, Elisabeth Punzi
Öppet seminarium inom ramen för Medicinsk humaniora - 2017 -
The incorporation of literature into clinical
practice
Elisabeth Punzi, Niclas Hagen
The Humanistic psychologist - 2017 -
Symposium: Migration, transkulturella möten och mental
hälsa.
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Neuropsykiatriska diagnoser - Ett resultat av ideologiska, politiska och sociala faktorer snarare än vetenskapliga upptäckter? Ett öppet seminarium med professor Sami Timimi, University of
Lincoln.
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Religion, ritualer och tvång. Öppet seminarium med professor Kate Loewenthal, Royal Hollway University of
London
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Behavioral misuse among clients in substance abuse treatment. An interview
study.
Elisabeth Punzi, Claudia Fahlke, Inga Tidefors
Journal of Substance Use - 2016 -
Voluntary work with sporting activities for Jewish children and teenagers: commitment to inclusiveness, Jewish identity, and a future Jewish life – an interview
study
Elisabeth Punzi, Josef Frischer
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies - 2016 -
Challenging the ADHD
consensus
Elisabeth Punzi, Soly Erlandsson
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2016 -
Student responses to reflexive course
evaluation
Malgorzata Erikson, Martin G. Erikson, Elisabeth Punzi
Reflective Practice - 2016 -
It's a deficiency disorder. Clients' understanding of substance and behavioral addictions and treatment needs: An interview
study.
Elisabeth Punzi
Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome & Addiction Science - 2016 -
A narrative needs a listener - Waiting as a crucial component in mental health
care
Elisabeth Punzi, Soly Erlandsson
Waiting as cultural practice vid universitetet i Paderborn i Tyskland 20-22 maj - 2016 -
Excessive behaviors in clinical practice - A state of the art
article
Elisabeth Punzi
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2016 -
A discursive analysis concerning information on ‘‘ADHD’’ presented to parents by the National Institute on Mental Health
(USA)
Elisabeth Punzi, Soly Erlandsson, Linda Lundin
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2016 -
Co-occurring self-reported behavioral problems in a substance use disorder treatment population: Treatment
perspective
Elisabeth Punzi, Claudia Fahlke
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly - 2015 -
Elderly Swedish Jewish Men and Egalitarianism: A Narrative
Study
Elisabeth Punzi
Women in Judaism: a multidisciplinary journal - 2015 -
“These are the things I may never learn from books”. Clinical psychology students’ experiences of their development of practical
wisdom.
Elisabeth Punzi
Reflective Practice - 2015 -
Judaism and psychoanalysis.How the Jewish roots of psychoanalysis influence contemporary psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists”
Elisabeth Punzi, Per Magnus Johansson
Health Care: Supply and Demand in Prehistory and History, Internationell konferens, Göteborgs universitet maj 2015. - 2015 -
Neuropsychological Assessment in Substance Abuse Treatment-Focusing on the Effects of Substances and on Neuropsychological Assessment as a Collaborative
Process
Elisabeth Punzi
Smith College Studies in Social Work - 2015 -
Excessive sexual activities among male clients in substance abuse treatment. An interview
study.
Elisabeth Punzi, Claudia Fahlke, Inga Tidefors
Mediterranean journal of clinical psychology - 2014 -
"it wasn't the proper me" - Narratives about alcoholism and view of oneself: The impact of disavowed shortcomings and
dissociation
Elisabeth Punzi, Inga Tidefors
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly - 2014 -
Freud's Jewish identity, circumcision, and the theory of castration anxiety: problem or
pride?
Elisabeth Punzi
Mental Health, Religion & Culture - 2014 -
"Too much is never enough" Psychological studies of substance misuse and other excessive
behaviors
Elisabeth Punzi
2014 -
Substance abuse and behavioural problems. Prevalence and psychological aspects of
importance
Elisabeth Punzi
2010