- Mental Illness: The patients experience - Chronic Somatic Illness: - Talk about talk - Scandinavian study on biology and temperament.

Visiting Fulbright professor ved San Diego State University (SDSU), School of Communications etter invitasjon fra professor Peter Andersen for å samarbeide med professorene Peter Andersen og Wayne Beach om prosjektene: 1. Mental illness: The pa tient's experience. Qualitative studies in illness representations, illness reactions, and illness experience. 2. Chronic somatic illness: The patient's experience. Phenomenological studies in illness representations, illness reactions, and ill ness experience. 3. Talk about Talk. Integrating basic interpersonal communication research and clinical communication. Videre til University of Massachusetts for samarbeide med professor Kevin Nugent, MassUniversity of Massachusetts, og dokto rgradsstipendiat ved Universitetet i Tromsø og University of Massachusetts og dr. Ann Becker om Scandinavian Study on Biology and Temperament.