
Norka Malberg, PsyD
Norka Malberg, PsyD, is an adult and child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst trained at the Anna Freud in London and the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society in New Haven, Connecticut. She obtained her clinical doctorate at University College London for her work with chronically ill adolescents in mentalization-based groups. She currently lives and practices in Barcelona, Spain, where she is Director of IMAGINA Mentalization Applications Centre and consults to multiple community mental health organizations. She is on the faculty of the Vidal & Barraquer University Institute of Mental Health at Ramon Llull University and on the Clinical faculty of the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University and the psychology department at Rutgers University. Dr. Malberg is a MBT trainer and supervisor for children, adolescents, and families, and provides trainings and supervision in Spanish and English internationally.
Her current research and clinical work focus on the development of modifications of mentalization-informed interventions working in the context of trauma and autism, the impact of emigration on parental reflective functioning, and the development of mentalization-based group interventions for adolescents in community mental health settings.
Dr Malberg is one of the coeditors of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (second ed. [PDM-2]) and a guest master clinician for the APA video series. She has published numerous papers and book chapters and is co-author of Mentalization-Based Treatment with Children: A Time-Limited Approach (APA, 2017), and first author of the book Working With Parents in Therapy: A Mentalization-Based Approach (APA, 2022).
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