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LIISA KELTIKANGAS-JÄRVINEN psychologist 1946- In the words of Professor Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, her Chair of Applied Psychology at the University of Helsinki "stands on publications in the field of psychosomatics, or rather, behavioural medicine". Psychosomatics studies the relationship between personality, behaviour and illness, and the mechanisms through which the psyche increases risk factors for illness. Keltikangas-Järvinen has written about psychosocial risk factors in the etiology of coronary heart disease, and on the relationship between stress, personality, physiology and neurology. Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen completed her doctoral dissertation on the personality traits of aggressive criminals and self-destructive persons in 1977. She developed the same topic further in her book Väkivalta ja itsetuho (1979). Keltikangas and her research group have also studied social development in children and adolescents, and especially the relationships between aggression, motivation and social cognition. She has recently published a book on healthy self-esteem. 1 2 1 Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen and Katri Räikkönen, the first student in her research group to finish a dissertation in early 1990s. 2 At the public defense of the dissertation of Katariina Salmela-Aho, 1997. Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen as custodian, prof. Brian Little as opponent. Photos: Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen