Svein Haugsgjerd (born August 3, 1942) is a Norwegian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is notable for using psychodynamic psychotherapy to treat patients with schizophrenia.. He is influenced by the Kleinian tradition in psychoanalysis and by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, on whom Haugsgjerd wrote a book-length introduction in 1986.. He has published extensively on the field of ....