Arne Vikan is a psychotherapist and professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He graduated as a psychologist in 1970 and completed his PhD at the University of Oslo in 1979. He was associate professor in 1979, professor of clinical psychology in 1986, and professor of medicine in 1994, and was a visiting professor at the Brazilian Federal Universities of Pernambuco (Recife)2003, and Paraiba (Joao Pessoa) 2010. Vikan is professor emeritus from 2013. He is also a certified psychotherapist and has practiced psychodynamic psychotherapy for more than 30 years.
His research focuses on the development of logic, social cognition and magical thinking, epidemiology of mental illness in children, cross-cultural studies of children’s concepts of causes and regulation of emotion, ecological cognition, emotion communication, shame, and cultural and clinical comparative research on emotion regulation strategies. He has published books in Norwegian
on socio-cognitive development and on children’s concepts of causes and regulation of emotions.
