Ole Jacob Madsen

Ole Jacob Madsen is a clinical psychologist and a philosopher. He recently defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. Madsen is examining how the therapeutic culture is currently unfolding in Norwegian society, and he argues that these cultural changes present psychologists with new societal ethical dilemmas. Of particular interest is the validity of the traditional critique claiming that psychology causes ideological dissimulation and transforms societal and political issues into individual, psychological, and biological problems.

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