Academic Interest
Explication of a necessary model for psychological practice, given what we already know about being human.
Higher education and employment history
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Jan Smedslund is Professor Emeritus and Specialist in Clinical Psychology
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He received his PhD at the University of Oslo in 1955A
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ppointed Professor of Psychology in 1966
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Worked at numerous foreign universities including Geneva, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1967-68. He has done experimental research in cognitive development with Piaget and Bruner
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Clinical background includes working at a psychiatric emergency ward and a crisis intervention team, an outpatient clinic for children and youth, a treatment home with drug addicts, with group psychotherapy and in private practice. He has published 7 books and some 130 articles and chapters.
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Main interests have been in the foundations of psychology
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The integration of theory and practice
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In the development of a general conceptual framework and axiomatic system that he has called psycho-logic
Awards
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Society for Research in Child Developmeent. Monograph Award, 1964
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Fellow ved Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1967/68.