Mark B. Andersen

Mark B. Andersen retired (mostly) from academia in 2014, but he is still an adjunct professor of psychology at both the School of Health and Welfare at Halmstad University in Sweden and the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia. His areas of research and practice interests include: the psychology of injury and rehabilitation; the role of exercise in mental health and quality of life; the training and supervision of graduate students; interpersonal mindfulness; Buddhist psychology; and psychodynamic applications in sport and performance psychology. He has published 9 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters, and has made over 100 national and international conference presentations, including 15 invited keynote addresses on four continents. He currently works as a clinical psychologist in a group practice in Hobart, Tasmania and supervises psychologists in nine countries around the world over Skype. Some of the institutions he values most are the restaurants where he lives in the Battery Point, Hobart.