Associate Professor of Language Psychology, Faculty of Humanities; University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Christina Fogtmann Fosgerau (CFF), MA, PhD, associate professor of Language Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. CFF has been working within the field of health care communication and mental health for more than 15 years. She has worked intensively with issues related to heath care professionals abilities to understand patient perspectives and to understand emotional aspects of communication. CFF is a leading researcher within the field of mentalizing and she has written theoretical and methodological papers on ways in which mentalizing can be identified and studied. Also, she has developed interventions and study programmes successfully aiming at raising health care professionals mentalizing abilities. Being a language psychologist, her psychological expertise is supported by extensive knowledge and experience within the field of communication and linguistics.