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Birgit Nordtug

Birgit Nordtug

Professor

Professor of psychology

Email
birgit.nordtug@inn.no
Phone number
+47 61 28 81 57

Faculty of education
Department of Pedagogy
Campus Lillehammer

Short description

Birgit Nordtug has for a number of years worked with French psychoanalysis - especially the writings of Jacques Lacan, which she combines with ideas in phenomenology, among others from Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas, and ideas in semiotics - primarily from Roland Barthes and Charles Sanders Peirce. She has applied these ideas in her work on fundamental psychological questions related to subjectivity, body and language. In the clinical research, these questions have been examined, among other things, through qualitative interviews with people who have struggled with eating problems & therapists and researchers in the eating disorder field, and people who have tried to take their own life & survivors after suicide.

Birgit Nordtug started her professional career in psychiatry, partly full-time and partly part-time in the period 1984-1992. Since then, academia has been the workplace. First at the University of Trondheim/NTNU from autumn 1992 to summer 2001 at the Department of Psychology and Department of Pedagogy. Then at the University College of Sogn og Fjordane/Sogndal with teaching in psychology at the Department of Social Sciences from autumn 2001 to autumn 2009, and then at the University College of Lillehammer/Innlandet with teaching in mental health and scientific theory & applied knowledge theory in various educations. In her forthcoming book "Knowledge responsibility. Eating disorders as an example ",  the two areas of teaching are combined both through traditional professional communication and in conversations with the pioneer in the Norwegian field of eating disorders psychologist Charlotte Buhl (with more than 40 years of experience in the treatment of eating disorders), clinical specialist in child and youth psychology Per Are Løkke (with more than 35 years of experience in treating children and young people) and the Danish professor of psychology Svend Brinkmann who has done research on the function of diagnoses in our time. The afterword is written by professor of health science and physical education Gunn Engelsrud, who has been (and still is) an important teacher and professional for Nordtug.

Publications

  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2026). Tvangsbehandling og subjektivitet: spiseforstyrrelser som kasus. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 50(1), p. 28–41. doi: 10.18261/tfk.50.1.4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2026). Størst av alt er frykten. Tanker etter å ha lest Geir Haugsbakks bok om en forunderlig ferd mot en fulldigitalisert skole. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. 12(1), p. 69–79. doi: 10.23865/ntpk.v12.7727. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn Helene & Nordtug, Birgit (2025). The lived and intersubjective gendered body in sport encounters: An example from cross-country skiing | idrottsforum.org. Idrottsforum.org - Nordic Sport Studies Forum. doi: https:/idrottsforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/engelsrud-nordtug251203.pdf. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Steinnes, Jenny Elise (2022). Spesialpedagogen – i samfunnets knutepunkt og skjæringsfelt? En psykoanalytisk invitasjon til spesialpedagogisk aktivisme. In Thuen, Harald; Myklestad, Synnøve & Vik, Stine (Ed.), Pedagogikkens idé og oppdrag. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245040883. p. 94–110. doi: 10.55669/oa010306. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Grimsgaard, Cathrine (2021). On the Care of Children Entrusted in our Hands: Reflections on the Position of Knowledge in Ethics-Based Practices. In Knizek, Birthe Loa & Klempe, Sven Hroar (Ed.), Foundation of Ethics-Based Practices. Springer. ISSN 9783030836658. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn; Rugseth, Gro & Nordtug, Birgit (2021). Taking time for new ideas: learning qualitative research methods in higher sports education. Sport, Education and Society. ISSN 1357-3322. 28(3), p. 239–252. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.2014804. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit; Thaulow, Benedikte & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2021). Den Ene og den Andre. Betraktninger om forskningsbaserte stillbilder av kjønnsforskjeller og andre forskjeller i skolen. Prismet. ISSN 0032-8847. 72(1), p. 67–76. doi: 10.5617/pri.8735. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Steinnes, Jenny Elise (2020). «DU SKAL IKKE MOBBE» : En psykoanalytisk revolusjon i tilnærmingen til mobbing? Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. 6, p. 32–47. doi: 10.23865/ntpk.v6.1580. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Løkke, Per Are (2020). Når det er tallene som teller. Kunnskap om ungdom og psykisk helse i et byråkratisk positivistisk landskap. Fontene forskning. ISSN 1890-9868. 13(1), p. 89–95. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn; Øien, Ingvil & Nordtug, Birgit (2018). Being present with the patient : a critical investigation of bodily sensitivity and presence in the field of physiotherapy. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. ISSN 0959-3985. 35(10), p. 908–918. doi: 10.1080/09593985.2018.1460431. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2017). Boken som mangler, ord som går på tomgang og sykt flinke jenter : kunnskap og helse :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 41(4), p. 262–278. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2017-04-06. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn; Nordtug, Birgit & Øien, Ingvil (2016). Kroppens subjektivitet – glemt eller anerkjent i fysioterapifaget? Fysioterapeuten. ISSN 0016-3384. 84(9), p. 16–20. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2016). Boken som mangler, ord som går på tomgang og sykt flinke jenter: Kunnskap og helse. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 40(3/4), p. 151–167. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2016-03-04-02. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2015). Levinas's ethics as a basis of healthcare - challenges and dilemmas. Nursing Philosophy. ISSN 1466-7681. 16(1), p. 51–63. doi: 10.1111/nup.12072. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2013). "The welcoming of Levinas in the Philosophy of Education : At the cost of the Other?". Theory and Research in Education. ISSN 1477-8785. 11(3), p. 250–268. doi: 10.1177/1477878513498174. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2009). "Sykdom, semiotikk og kommunikasjon". Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 46(8), p. 776–777. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2007). Education as Subjectivity: Three Perspectives on the Construction of Subjectivity and the Position of Knowledge. In Ze'ev, Ilan Gur & Roth, Klas (Ed.), Education in the Era of Globalisation. Springer Publishing Company. ISSN 9781402059445. p. 169–184. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2004). Subjectivity as an unlimited semiosis: Lacan and Peirce. Studies in Philosophy and Education. ISSN 0039-3746. 23(2), p. 87–102. doi: 10.1023/SPED.0000024434.67000.36. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2002). Den Andre i det samme og den Andre i den andre. Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi. ISSN 0801-2911. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Nordtug, Birgit; Haugsbakk, Geir Olav; Kvernbekk, Tone & Thoresen, Wenche (2026). Kunnskapsansvar - Universitetet i Innlandet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2026). “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world” (John.17:16). Lacan, Levinas and responsibility. Abstract book . doi: https:/www.hvl.no/contentassets/53a9095ad5bb4aa181cc7747b41758a6/abstract-book-020626.pdf. Full text in Research Archive
  • Vebenstad, Marit Aaby & Nordtug, Birgit (2026). Mener tvangsbehandling er et underbelyst kvinnehelseproblem | Kilden magasin. [Internet]. https://magasin.kildenkunnskap.no/nb/2026/06/mener-tvangsbehandling-er-et-underbelyst-kvinnehelseproblem. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2025). Finn Skårderud maler over åndeligheten i vår tid, skriver professor Birgit Nortug. p. 16–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit; Kvernbekk, Tone; Engelsrud, Gunn Helene; Kollien, Karen M Nygaard & Østrem, Solveig (2025). Seminar "Kunnskapsansvar". doi: https:/www.facebook.com/solumbokvennen/posts/velkommen-til-boklansering-kunnskapsansvar-spiseforstyrrelser-som-kasusi-kunnska/1637696804349322/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2025). Studenter er nettopp studenter, ikke pasienter. Khrono. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2025). Ukritisk, akselererende hyllest av Hartmut Rosa. p. 45–45. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2025). Rosas himmelske resonans. 17.06.2025 Online(17.06.2025 Papirutgaven), p. 19–19. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2025). Kunnskapsansvar i en tid med mye fake knowledge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2025). Rosas virkelighet. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Lørdag 7. juni, p. 35–35. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2024). Masteroppgaven trenger ikke å fremmedgjøre studentene og utbytte praksisfeltet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2024). Empowerment: More as something that comes into being in sport, than as a product of sport. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit; Engelsrud, Gunn & Steinnes, Jenny Elise (2023). Legitimering av mobbeprogram i barnehage og skule. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gedde-Dahl, Siri & Nordtug, Birgit (2023). Forsker i dobbeltrolle. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Thaulow, Benedikte (2022). Erfaringer av overskridelse. Betraktninger med utgangspunkt i Per Are Løkkes «Ungdommens transformasjoner». Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. 8, p. 448–456. Full text in Research Archive
  • Løkke, Per Are & Nordtug, Birgit (2022). Kritisk blikk på tradisjonell selvmordsforebygging. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. 59(9), p. 842–847. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn Helene (2020). Ikke til stor skade om flere kommuner gjør som Trondheim: exit Ungdata. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ravneng, Henrik Johansen, & Nordtug, Birgit (2019). Measuring body-experience in eating disorders - measuring what? Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2019). Det blir ofte banalt når psykologer skal forklare kjønn og følelser i offentligheten. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2018). Begrepsforståelse i og for fysioterapi – hva er «psykisk» og hva er «fysisk» helse? Fysioterapeuten. ISSN 0016-3384. 85(3), p. 30–33. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2018). Mennesket er ikke oppdelt i "fysisk" og "psykisk". [Journal]. Fysioterapeuten. Full text in Research Archive
  • Løkke, Per Are & Nordtug, Birgit (2018). Fire "vrangforestillinger" om ungdom og psykisk helse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2017). Fysisk aktivitet for bedre psykisk helse – noen betraktninger. Bedre Skole. ISSN 0802-183X. 29(4), p. 28–33. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2016). Retusjering i kampen mot kroppspresset. p. 6–6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2016). Presset på kroppspresset. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2016). Nytemeningen – noen lacanianske refleksjoner. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2016). Retusjering i kampen mot kroppspresset. p. 3–3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2016). Vi må slutte å prate om kroppspresset. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2016). Tull med tall om globalisert kroppshat. p. 18–18. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2016). Er alle kvinner fortapt i kroppshat? Det kunne være opplysende med noen kritiske spørsmål, Skårderud. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2016). Jenter og gym - ingen krise. Bergens Tidende. ISSN 0804-8983. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2016). "Reflections on Userparticipation in the light of Jacques Lacan's discourses". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Andersen, Susanne (2015). Spiseforstyrrelser og overvekt - to sider av samme sak? En samtale med to kliniske psykologer, to forskere og en journalist. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2015). Fra forskning til politikk. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 18–18. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2015). Some critical reflections on user participation in research on mental health. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit; Birkvad, Søren & Servoll, Johanne Kielland (2015). Samtale om filmen "Min lille søster". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Cederstrøm, Madeleine (2015). Spiseforstyrrelser. [Radio]. NRK, P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2015). Mat og spising som språk om å takle det vanskelige. Full text in Research Archive
  • Engelsrud, Gunn & Nordtug, Birgit (2015). La oss glemme kroppen! p. 38–39. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Engelsrud, Gunn (2015). Utvendig og innvendig forståelse. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 18–18. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2014). Spiseforstyrrelser og autonomi - språklige utfordringer i behandlingen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2013). "Etikk som fagidentitet og legitimering av fagets status". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2013). "Levinas as a critical voice against the increased pressure for uniformity in education – an academic gesture to heighten the status of pedagogy as a scientific discipline?". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Andersen, Susanne (2013). "Utfordringer i møte med personer med spiseforstyrrelser". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2012). "De kunnskapsrike pasientene". Tidsskr nor legeforen. 132, p. 1122–1124. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.11.0597. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2012). "Kunnskap om spiseforstyrrelser : muligheter og begrensninger". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2012). "Ethical Anarchy : Challenges and Dilemmas in the area of Education". Full text in Research Archive
  • Kvernbekk, Tone & Nordtug, Birgit (2011). A plea for randomness. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2011). "De nye pasientene i skiftende diskursive posisjoner". Full text in Research Archive
  • Kvernbekk, Tone & Nordtug, Birgit (2011). Evidence Based Practice, predictability and the value of randomness. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2010). "Questions of methodology" (discussant). Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2010). "Reading desire of femininity as a symptom in context". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2010). "Spiseforstyrret subjektivitet: Kunnskap, ansvar for andre og diskursive posisjoner. Fra et psykoanalytisk-semiotisk ståsted". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit & Utheim, Marit Eide (2010). "Kjønnet danning i tekst og kontekst". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2009). "Når kroppen tenker". Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi. ISSN 0801-2911. 62(3), p. 112–113. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2009). "The Levinasian ethical turn in Education and Health Sciences - a turn for whom?". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2008). "Innsatt og utsatt i språket - subjektivitet og spiseforstyrrelser". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2008). Symptomer som tegn - semiotikk og helse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2008). "Om språkets muligheter og begrensninger i erfaringen av oss selv og vår omverden - fra et psykoanalytisk-semiotisk ståsted". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2008). "Kjønnsteoretiske perspektiver på spiseforstyrret subjektivitet". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2003). "Kropp og språk". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2002). "Spiseforstyrrelser, terapeutisk språk og selvforståelse". Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2002). The Other of the same and the Other of the other. A discussion of the concept of Otherness from the view of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2002). Subjectivity as an unlimited semiosis: Lacan and Peirce. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2001). A discussion of Anthony Giddens understanding of the self as a reflexive project from the view of Jacques Lacans psychoanalytic theory of the subject and Julia Kristevas theory of the signifying process. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2000). Ambisiøst om spiseforstyrrelser. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1998). Selvkonstruksjon i det refleksivt moderne. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1998). En diskusjon av forholdet mellom ulike analysenivåer i forskningen på spiseforstyrrelser. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1998). Dummere av å se på TV? [Journal]. Trønder-avisa. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1997). Kropp og identitet i vår refleksiv moderne samtid. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1997). En diskusjon av ulike konstruksjoner av fenomenet spiseforstyrrelser i lys av Luhmanns systemteori. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1997). A discussion of different constructions of the phenomenon eating disorders from the veiw of modern systems theory and critical structuralist approach. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1996). Refleksjoner rundt skillet mellom biologisk og sosialt kjønn. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1996). Subjektets posisjon i Potters diskursanalyse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (1996). Postmodernisme og det kliniske subjekt. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nordtug, Birgit (2008). Spiseforstyrret subjektivitet i det refleksivt moderne. NTNU-trykk. ISSN 9788247185131. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kvernbekk, Tone & Nordtug, Birgit (2002). The many faces of philosophy of education : traditions, problems and challenges : conference proceedings : International Network of Philosophers of Education, 8thBiennial Conference, August 8-11, 2002. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788256959990. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aasen, Petter; Nordtug, Birgit & Leirvik, Birgit (1995). Skolverkets forskningprogram 1993-1996:Oppfølgingsrapport nr.2. ALLFORSK, Senter for Samfunnsforskning (SESAM). Full text in Research Archive
  • Aasen, Petter; Nordtug, Birgit & Leirvik, Birgit (1995). Skolverkets forskningsprogram 1993 - 1995. Oppfølgingsrapport nr. 1. Senter for samfunnsforskning/Allforsk. Full text in Research Archive

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University of Inland Norway
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum
Norway