Are Holen

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Are Holen is a M.D. and Ph.D. and is currently an associate professor and associate dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology^[1]. He specializes on stress psychiatry, and has done scientific research on meditation.

In addition to having a medical degree, he has studied psychology and is a trained psychotherapist.

In 1966 he founded the non-profit organisation Acem International School of Meditation^[2].

[edit] Writings

"The North Sea Oil Rig Disaster." In International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. Edited by John P. Wilson and Beverley Raphael. New York: Plenum, 1993. 471-478.
With Christian Moldjord and Lars Kristian Fossum. "Coping with Peacekeeping Stress." In The Psychology of the Peacekeeper: Lessons From the Field. Edited by Thomas W. Britt and Amy B. Adler. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 169-184.