About
Linda Sandbæk is working on a PhD on the relationship between literature and psychology. Among the articles included in the project are On witnessing systematic violence and impunity – Martha Soto Gallo's archive for her missing brother and Sara Uribe's Antígona González. Supervisors are Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad at OsloMet and Siri Erika Gullestad at the University of Oslo.
Previously, Sandbæk worked as a clinical psychologist, most of the years in public mental health care. She is a fiction writer and has published the novel The Therapist's Christmas - on the Limits of Love and Knowledge (in Norwegian at the publishing house Cappelen Damm) and short stories for children and adults.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Clinical psychology Social sciences
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Sandbæk, Linda ; Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar (2025). Om møte mellom det litterære og kliniske i Sara Stridsbergs Drömfakulteten – tillägg till sexualteorin. Samlaren: tidsskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur. Vol. 145.
Sandbæk, Linda (2024). Om umulig psykologisk løsrivelse – Elfriede Jelineks Pianolærerinnen og Psykoanalytisk objektrelasjonsteori. Matrix. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Psykoterapi. Vol. 40.
Sandbæk, Linda
(2023).
On Naming the Unnamable—Trauma and Testimony in A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux.
American Imago.
Vol. 80.
https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a909047
Sandbæk, Linda
;
Qvortrup, Natalia Bermudez
(2023).
Om å bevitne systematisk vold og straffrihet – Martha Soto Gallos arkiv for sin forsvunne bror og Sara Uribes Antígona González.
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet).
Vol. 60.
https://doi.org/10.52734/VMEI5330
Sandbæk, Linda
(2023).
Like a river or a silver thread running through the vehement landscapes of reality–reflections on psychoanalysis and literary theory.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2023.2219881
Sandbæk, Linda
(2022).
Om å benevne det unevnelige – «Sommeren 58» av Annie Ernaux og psykoanalytisk traumeteori.
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet).
Vol. 59.
https://doi.org/10.52734/98w54ALF
Sandbæk, Linda
(2022).
The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis: reflections on object relations theory, researcher's subjectivity, and transference in psychoanalytic literary criticism.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2022.2047490