Olga Vanessa Lehmann

Associate Professor

Olga Vanessa Lehmann

Contact

Telephone: 51832074

Email: olga.lehmann@uis.no

Department

Faculty of Social Sciences

Department of Social Studies

About me

My background is in clinical, community and cultural psychology and I work as transdisciplinary as possible in favour of mental health and well-being. I hold a dual degree in psychology from Colombia (my homeland) and Italy, and have full authorisation to practice as a clinical psychologist in Norway.

I earned my doctoral degree in Psychology at NTNU - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, writing a thesis about silence and emotions in our everyday lives. I continued my stay at NTNU with a postdoctoral fellow in Mental Health, focusing on therapeutic writing and existential meaning among older adults. 

My main areas of research are: qualitative methodologies and epistemology in qualitative research; R&D of low-threshold interventions to promote mental health and well-being; grief; silence; feelings and emotions; therapeutic writing; existential meaning; compassion; meaning-making; the psychological humanities; aesthetics; history of psychology. 

When it comes to my training in clinical psychology, I would describe it as pluralistic and integrative, with a special focus on existential psychology. These are some of my clinical qualifications:

  • Certified instructor in Mindful Eating - Conscious Living (MEC-CL) by the University of California San Diego. 

  • Fullfilled the Levels 1 and 2 of the core skills training in couple therapy by The Gottman Institute.

  • Fullfilled a core skills training in Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, by the ALAEF - Associazione di Logoterapia e Analisi Esistenziale Frankliana in Italy in collaboration with the Catholic University of Milan. 

  • Fulfilled the therapists' training program in Emotion-focused Skill Training for Parents (EFST), at the Norwegian Institute of Emotion-focused Therapy. 

  • I have fulfilled 2 out of 3 modules of psychotherapy training in Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) at NIEFT - The Norwegian Institute of Emotion-focused Therapy. This is a 3 years training program approved by the Norwegian Association of Psychologists. 

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Lehmann O, Olga V; Murakami, Kyoko

(2024)

Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals.

Culture & Psychology.

ISSN 1354-067X.

DOI: 10.1177/1354067X241253658

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Brinkmann, Svend

(2023)

Virtuous ageing as a poetic endeavour : Motivations to write and effects of writing among older adults in Norway. I: A poetic language of ageing.

Bloomsbury Academic.

ISBN 9781350256804.

s.117-135.

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Synnes, Oddgeir Arne

(2023)

Introduction: A Poetic Language of Ageing. I: A poetic language of ageing.

Bloomsbury Academic.

ISBN 9781350256804.

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Kalstad, Trine Giving; Neimeyer, Robert A.

(2023)

Experiences of Fathers in Norway Attending an Online Course on Therapeutic Writing After the Death of a Child.

Qualitative Health Research.

ISSN 1049-7323.

DOI: 10.1177/10497323231216099

Lehmann O, Olga V; Neimeyer, Robert A.; Thimm, Jens; Hjeltnes, Aslak; Lengelle, Reinekke; Kalstad, Trine Giving

(2022)

Experiences of Norwegian Mothers Attending an Online Course of Therapeutic Writing Following the Unexpected Death of a Child.

Frontiers in Psychology.

ISSN 1664-1078.

Volum 12.

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.809848

Klempe, Sven Hroar; Lehmann O, Olga V

(2021)

Pleromatization: Bringing Cultural Psychology Closer to Human Experience. I: Culture as process: A tribute to Jaan Valsiner.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-030-77891-0.

s.243-250.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77892-7_22

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa

(2021)

Silence. I: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-319-98390-5.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_225-1

Lehmann O, Olga V; Hansen, Mixo; Hurme, Helena

(2020)

This is the real “death-line” AND I am still alive: A collaborative reflexivity about life trajectories.

Culture & Psychology.

ISSN 1354-067X.

Volum 26.

Hefte 4.

s.819-836.

DOI: 10.1177/1354067X20922132

Lehmann O, Olga V; Murakami, Kyoko; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2019)

Developmentally Oriented Thematic Analysis (DOTA): A Qualitative Research Method to Explore Meaning-Making Processes in Cultural Psychology.

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung.

ISSN 1438-5627.

Volum 20.

Hefte 2.

DOI: 10.17169/fqs-20.2.3190

Lehmann O, Olga V; Brinkmann, Svend

(2019)

Revisiting “The Art of Being Fragile”: Why cultural psychology needs literature and poetry.

Culture & Psychology.

ISSN 1354-067X.

s.1-17.

DOI: 10.1177/1354067X19862183

Lehmann O, Olga V; Brinkmann, Svend

(2019)

“I´m the one who has written this”: reciprocity in writing courses for older adults in Norway.

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being.

ISSN 1748-2623.

Volum 14.

Hefte 1.

s.1-10.

DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2019.1650586

Lehmann O, Olga V; Brinkmann, Svend

(2019)

“Humbled by Life”: Poetic Representations of Existential Pathways and Personal Life Philosophies Among Older Adults in Norway.

Qualitative Inquiry.

ISSN 1077-8004.

s.1-12.

DOI: 10.1177/1077800419885414

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2018)

Understanding Silence-Phenomena through the Boundaries of Speech: Semiotic Demand Settings Regulating Felt Experiences. I: I Activate You to Affect Me.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 9781641130707.

s.125-144.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Kardum, Goran; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2018)

The search for inner silence as a source for Eudemonia.

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.

ISSN 0306-9885.

DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2018.1553295

Klempe, Sven Hroar; Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Reviving the Logic of Aesthetics: Poetry and Music in Cultural Psychology. I: The Psychology of Imagination: History, Theory and New Research Horizons.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 9781681237091.

s.67-81.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Valsiner, Jaan

(2017)

Deepening the Experiences: New Voices in Psychology. I: Deep Experiencing - Dialogues Within the Self.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-319-68692-9.

s.1-5.

DOI: 10.1007%2F978-3-319-68693-6_1

Tangene, Per Christian; Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

The “Silence” of the Ocean: Affective Self-Dialogue on a Sailing Night-Shift. I: Deep Experiencing - Dialogues Within the Self.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-319-68692-9.

s.39-50.

DOI: 10.1007%2F978-3-319-68693-6_4

Lehmann O, Olga V; Valsiner, Jaan

(2017)

Deep Feelings in Actions: Where Cultural Psychology Matters. I: Deep Experiencing - Dialogues Within the Self.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-319-68692-9.

s.93-103.

DOI: 10.1007%2F978-3-319-68693-6_8

Lehmann O, Olga V; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2017)

“The Tune Without the Words”: Dickinson’s Verses in a Jazz Ensemble — A Case Study on the Poetics of Music and the Musicality of Poetry. I: Poetry And Imagined Worlds.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-319-64857-6.

s.175-195.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64858-3_10

Lehmann O, Olga V; Chaudhary, Nandita; Abbey, Emily

(2017)

Conclusive Remarks: Writing Toward the Core—Poetically Framing a Science of Cultural Psychology. I: Poetry And Imagined Worlds.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-319-64857-6.

s.281-290.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64858-3_17

Lehmann O, Olga V; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2016)

The Centrality of Aesthetics for Psychology: Sciences and Arts United Through Poetic Instants. I: Psychology as the Science of Human Being - The Yokohama Manifesto.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-319-21093-3.

s.51-66.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_4

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

Silence and Sense-Making: The Musicality of Affect Restored to Wissenshaft in Everyday Life. I: Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 978-1681234847.

s.281-298.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2015)

Psychology and the Notion of the Spirit: Implications of Max Scheler’s Anthropological Philosophy in Theory of Psychology.

Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science.

ISSN 1932-4502.

Volum 49.

Hefte 3.

s.478-484.

DOI: 10.1007/s12124-015-9295-5

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2015)

Something Blossoms in Between: Silence-Phenomena as a Bordering Notions in Psychology.

Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science.

ISSN 1932-4502.

Volum 50.

Hefte 1.

s.1-13.

DOI: 10.1007/s12124-015-9321-7

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2015)

Poetic Instants in Daily Life: Towards the Inclusion of Vertical Time in Cultural Psychology. I: Integrated experiences: Body and mind moving contexts.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 978-1-68123-007-8.

s.165-177.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_4

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2015)

Taboos, culture and everyday life: is there any hope to reconcile the tensions of existence?.

Psykologisk tidsskrift.

ISSN 1501-7508.

Volum 19.

Hefte 3.

s.54-58.

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

Man's Search for Extra-Ordinary Answers in Life: Silence as a Catalyst for Crisis-Solving. I: The Catalyzing Mind - Beyond Models of Causality.

Springer.

ISBN 9781461488200.

s.239-249.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8821-7_13

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

¿VIVIR, UNA SITUACIÓN TERMINAL? EL SENTIDO DEL DOLOR Y DEL SUFRIMIENTO A PARTIR DE LA LOGOTERAPIA Y EL ANÁLISIS EXISTENCIAL. I: ACOMPAÑAR LA FINITUD.

SAN PABLO.

ISBN 9789870903499.

s.161-177.

Mori, Harald; Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

PSICOTERAPIA CENTRADA EN EL SENTIDO COMO HERRAMIENTA PARA EL TRATAMIENTO CONTEMPORÁNEO DEL CÁNCER. I: ACOMPAÑAR LA FINITUD.

SAN PABLO.

ISBN 9789870903499.

s.251-277.

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

Towards dialogues with and within silence in psychotherapy processes: Why the person of the therapist and the client matters?.

Culture & Psychology.

ISSN 1354-067X.

Volum 20.

Hefte 4.

s.537-546.

DOI: 10.1177/1354067X14551298

Lehmann O, Olga V; Saita, Emanuela

(2014)

Health Professionals die too - How an Anesthesiologist Looks at Death in Palliative Care Practice. I: Multicentric Identities in a Globalizing World.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 9781623967178.

s.41-73.

Bøker og kapitler

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Otterlei, Marte Tonning

(2024)

Imagining the Possible and teh Impossible in Family Reunification: An Integrative Framework to Explore Grief in the Context of Child Remowals (Chap. 16 pp. 375-398) In: Rebuilding Family Relations for Children and Youth Separated from Family. Hean et al. (2024). I: Rebuilding family relations for children and youth separated from family.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-031-67105-0.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67106-7

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Synnes, Oddgeir Arne

(2023)

A poetic language of ageing.

Bloomsbury Academic.

ISBN 9781350256804.

Hagen, Anne Hilde Vassbø; Ansar, Nadia; Autsbø, Bente; Berg Kårstad, Silja; Lehmann O, Olga V

(2023)

Guidelines for an Online & Cultural Inclusive Version of Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents (EFST-O).

ISBN 9788269251234.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Kalstad, Trine Giving; Neimeyer, Robert A.

(2023)

Å skrive gjennom sorg: En terapeutisk arbeidsbok for etterlatte foreldre.

ISBN 9788293261117.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2018)

Meaning Focused Perspectives on Suffering, Compassion, and Caregiving for the Elderly. A Commentary on Schulz’s & Monin’s Model. I: Cultures of Care in Aging.

Information Age Publishing.

ISBN 978-1-64113-138-4.

s.251-269.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Høre hjemme - Poesikveld i Trondheim en antologi.

ISBN 978-82-93354-16-1.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Foreword. I: Høre hjemme - Poesikveld i Trondheim en antologi.

ISBN 978-82-93354-16-1.

s.i-iii.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Jornada Interior. I: Høre hjemme - Poesikveld i Trondheim en antologi.

ISBN 978-82-93354-16-1.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Inner journey. I: Høre hjemme - Poesikveld i Trondheim en antologi.

ISBN 978-82-93354-16-1.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Valsiner, Jaan

(2017)

Deep Experiencing - Dialogues Within the Self.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-319-68692-9.

Hefte ..

Lehmann O, Olga V; Chaudhary, Nandita; Bastos, Ana Cecilia; Abbey, Emily

(2017)

Poetry And Imagined Worlds.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-319-64857-6.

Hefte x.

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

ACOMPAÑAR LA FINITUD.

SAN PABLO.

ISBN 9789870903499.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Kroeff, Paulo

(2014)

FINITUDE E SENTIDO DA VIDA: A logoterapia no embrate com a triade tragica.

ISBN 978-85-7727-696-7.

Formidling

Lehmann, Olga Vanessa; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2024)

Engasjerende og eksistensielt om meningsløshetens psykologi.

Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening.

ISSN 0332-6470.

Volum 61.

s.64-65.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2024)

Divas, captains, ghosts, ants and bumble-bees: collaborator attitudes explained.

Nature.

ISSN 0028-0836.

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00808-z

Lehmann O, Olga V; Amundsen, Bård

(2017)

Derfor trenger vi mer stillhet.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Can "silence" be a "superpower" in dialogue?.

ISTP 2017: The 17th Biennial Conference of The International Society of Theoretical Psychology;

2017-08-21 - 2017-08-25.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Can "silence" be a "superpower" in dialogue?.

ISTP2017 Proceedings.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

‘Vi må lytte til stillheten’.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2017)

Stillhet er blitt en mangelvare - Finn et stille rom.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Chaudhary, Nandita; Bastos, Ana Cecilia; Abbey, Emily

(2017)

Introduction: Feeling the Inifinite and Shapening It Inward an Outward: Exploring Human Lives. I: Poetry And Imagined Worlds.

Palgrave Macmillan.

ISBN 978-3-319-64857-6.

s.xi-xiv.

Mortensholm, Stein Kleppe; Sjursen, Liv Ragnhild Holdhus; Bakka, Haakon Christopher; Toraskar, Jimita Prashant; Platou, Rikke Stoud; Schultz, Joseph Samuel; Snipstad, Sofie; Aurand, Katherine Rose; Lehmann O, Olga V; Finnøy, Andreas; Mathisen, Siri Holthe

(2016)

Forsker Grand Prix 2016, regionfinale i Trondheim.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

Den mektige stillheten.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

Dikt og slam i Trondheim.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

– Stillhet kan være superpower.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

Silence as a superpower.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

– Stillhet kan være superpower.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2016)

Stillhet i kvardagen - Innslag i Norgeglasset.

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

Introducción. I: ACOMPAÑAR LA FINITUD.

SAN PABLO.

ISBN 9789870903499.

s.7-9.

Oliveros, Olga V.L.

(2014)

Semana del Sentido de la Vida: El perdón.

Universidad de La Sabana.

Lehmann O, Olga V

(2014)

Introducao. I: FINITUDE E SENTIDO DA VIDA: A logoterapia no embrate com a triade tragica.

ISBN 978-85-7727-696-7.

s.11-14.

Lehmann O, Olga V; Giordane, Peter; Valsiner, Jaan; Klempe, Sven Hroar

(2014)

The Voices of Silence in the Cultural Psychology of Dialogical Self.

8th International Conference on dialogical self;

2014-08-19 - 2014-08-22.