• A Psychoanalytic Approach to Fieldwork 

      Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-12)
      This article focuses on what both psychoanalysis and anthropology have in common: the emphasis on the researcher’s own experience. An ethnographic fieldwork will be used to illustrate how a psychoanalytical approach unfolds ...
    • I am only a nurse: a biographical narrative study of a nurse’s self-understanding and its implication for practice 

      Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article, 2015-04)
      Background: The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice. From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. A literature search on nurses’ self ...
    • Out of control : A teacher's account 

      Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-12)
      This paper draws on data collected from my recent exploration of how teachers become competent in the area of relationships. In an interview, a student teacher, Kristin, voiced the challenges she faced: 'I think it is ...
    • The risk of entering relationships: experiences from a Norwegian hospital. 

      Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-09)
      This article analyses how nursing students being trained in a Norwegian hospital interact and communicate with their patients – a task that seems to be one of the hardest of all for the students. Based on data from a ...