Jon Sletvold, Psy.D. ,is a licensed specialist in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He was founding Board Director of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute and is currently Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Character Analytic Institute. He is former chair of the Psychotherapy Specialty Board of the Norwegian Psychological Association. He has published articles particularly on the role of the body in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in national and international journals He is co-editor of two books: Den terapeutiskedansen [The therapeutic dance] and Karakteranalytiskedialoger [Character analytic dialogues] and the editor of Tage Philipson – Kjærlighetogidentifisering [Love and Identification]. He is the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality,published by Routledge Taylor and Francis in the Relational Perspectives Book Series, 2014, winner of the Gradiva Award, 2015.