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Juhani Ihanus

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Juhani Ihanus (born in 1954, in Helsinki) is a Finnish academic psychologist and writer, working at the University of Helsinki. His main areas include cultural psychology, the history of psychology and psychoanalysis, psychohistory, political psychology, and the psychology of literature and art. He is also a European pioneer in the field of biblio/poetry therapy, an essayist, a critic, a poet and an aphorist. He has written, co-written and edited several publications, mainly in Finnish, English and Swedish.

Career

Ihanus has belonged to the staff of the University of Helsinki since 1982 (PhD in 1990) and he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychology until the beginning of 2021. He also has the title of Docent (Associate Professor) in Psychology and in Cultural Psychology (at the University of Helsinki), in Art Education and Art Psychology (at Aalto University) and in the History of Science and Ideas (at the University of Oulu). He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at the University of Cambridge and at Tallinn University. He has written 20 books and edited 14 books. He has also published several scientific and popular articles, essays and reviews. As a fiction writer, he has co-written two dialogical books of poetry with a Finnish poet Jyrki Pellinen and published his own works of aphorisms (a collection On the edge in English, À la lisière in French), poems (a collection On the Road to Narva the Kabbalist, connected with Kabbalistic tradition, and The birch and the steam, about the Finnish sauna tradition) and short prose. His total of publications is over 540.[1]

Research interests

In his academic work, Ihanus has focused on the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and anthropology, the psychohistory of especially Russia and Russian leadership, theoretical issues of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis, and the psychological study of literature and art. He published a large-scale study of the Finnish-born, internationally renowned social anthropologist Edward Westermarck.[2] His interest in psychohistory, psychobiography, leadership studies and political psychology is manifest in several articles, ranging from Imperial Russia and child rearing to recent Russian issues and Vladimir Putin’s macho pose.[3] [4]

Ihanus has also been active in developing the theory and practice of biblio/poetry therapy and writing therapy. He was a co-founder, in 1981, and the first president of the Finnish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, the first such organization in Europe.[5] His work combines the philosophical, historical and cultural aspects of the transformative functions of words, literature, writing, and biblio/poetry therapy, approaching the subject through narrative and cultural psychology, storytelling, and shareable meaning making.[6] He is also a scientific chief of the training programs in that field.

Besides academic interests, he is engaged in writing literary essays, critiques, poems, short prose, aphorisms and in translating into Finnish (he has translated works, for example, by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, E. M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, and Juliet Mitchell).

Works

Selected publications in English

Professional

  • Multiple origins: Edward Westermarck in search of mankind. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999. ISBN 978-08-2044-3065 Search this book on .; ISBN 3-631-34455-4 Search this book on .
  • Swaddling, shame and society: On psychohistory and Russia. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications, 2001. ISBN 952-10-0098-8 Search this book on .
  • Transformative words: Writing otherness and identities. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2019. ISBN 978-1-53614-965-4 Search this book on .; ISBN 978-1-53614-966-1 Search this book on . (ebook)
  • Manninen, Juha; Ihanus, Juhani; Jalava, Marja & Niiniluoto, Ilkka: A History of Philosophy and Psychology in Finland, 1809–1917. (The History of Learning and Science in Finland 1828-1918, 19.) Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2021. ISBN 978-951-653-461-2; ISBN 978-951-653-462-9 (pdf)

Fictive

ISBN 978-609-96561-0-6

Selected publications in Finnish

Selected edited publications

References

  1. ↑ "University of Helsinki Research Portal".
  2. ↑ Ihanus, Juhani (1999). Edward Westermarck in search of mankind. ISBN 978-08-2044-3065. Search this book on
  3. ↑ Ihanus, Juhani (2001). Swaddling, shame and society: On psychohistory and Russia. Kikimora Publications. ISBN 952-10-0098-8. Search this book on
  4. ↑ O'Keefe, Denis; Elovitz, Paul H. "A Finnish psychohistorian: Juhani Ihanus. An interview of a major builder". Clio's Psyche. 26 Number 3 (Spring 2020): 328–340.
  5. ↑ "Finnish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy".
  6. ↑ Ihanus, Juhani (2019). Transformative words: Writing otherness and identities. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-53614-965-4. Search this book on

Research database Tuhat – University of Helsinki/Publications and activities of Juhani Ihanus

The Finnish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy (Finnish)


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