Ole Jacob Madsen

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Faglige interesser

Jeg forsker på psykologiens rolle i samfunnet. Spesielt har jeg jobbet med samtidsdiagnosen «den terapeutiske kultur» der psykologiens utbredelse i senmoderne samfunn ikke ulikt kristendommen kommer til å prege mennesket sin selvforståelse på godt og ondt.

Jeg forsker også på øko- og klimapsykologi, der jeg er særlig interessert i spørsmål som angår forholdet mellom individet og samfunnet og individet og naturen, det være seg identitet, forestillingsevne og motstand mot eller vilje til atferdsendringer.

I tillegg er jeg interessert i de fleste spørsmål som angår utfordringene med å leve i senmoderniteten.

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Jeg er alltid åpen for å veilede studenter som skriver innenfor mine interesseområder. Ta kontakt på epost om du har et aktuelt prosjekt.

Undervisning

Bachelor: PSY2505 - Psykologien og samtiden

Profesjon: PSYC3204 - Perspektiver på psykologien

Master: PSY4505 - Identitet, kultur og kritisk psykologi

Bakgrunn

2017-: Professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi, Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
2013-2017: Førsteamanuensis i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi, Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
2011-2013: Toårig arbeidsstipend fra Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening
2008-2011: Ph.d.-stipendiat, Senter for vitenskapsteori, Universitetet i Bergen
2007-2008: Psykolog i PP-tjenesten, Øygarden kommune
2002-2006: Hovedfag i filosofi, Filosofisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen
2000-2005: Profesjonsstudiet i psykologi, Det psykologiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen

Midtgaard, M. B. & Madsen, O. J. (2018). Exploring local knowledge on climate variability in Bangladesh: a cultural psychological inquiry. Human Arenas.

Madsen, O. J. (2018). The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway. London: Routledge.

Madsen, O. J. (2018). Verden forgår, men mennesket består. I P. Bjerregaard & K. Kverndokk (red.), Kollaps. På randen av fremtiden (ss. 85-97). Oslo: Dreyer.

Larsen, E. A. W. & Madsen, O. J. (2018). Fra fantasier om bærekraft til bærekraftige fantasier En lacansk diskursanalyse av grønn ideologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 55(6), 514- 526.

Weme, A. V. & Madsen, O. J. (2018). What motivates green living? A qualitative investigation of sustainable life choices. Human Arenas, 1(1), 1- 22.

Madsen, O. J. (2018). Den terapeutiske skolesekken? Fremtidens skole slik Ludvigsen-utvalget ser det. I K. Bjørkdahl (red.), Rapporten: Sjanger og styringsverktøy (ss. 204-230). Oslo: Pax.

Amrud, I. J., Madsen, O. J. & Kjøs, P. (2018). My Little Brony - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av unge menn som ser på animasjonsserien My Little Pony. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 55(1), 94- 105

Lohne-Knudsen, L. & Madsen, O. J. (2018). Orthorexia nervosa - en kulturdiagnose for vår tid? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 55(1), 13- 23.

Madsen, O. J. (2017). «Hvordan har dere det egentlig?» Som man spør, får man svar. Samtiden, 125(3), 40-45.

Milfont, T. L., Bain, P. G., Kashima, Y., Corral-Verdugo, V., Pasquali, C., Johansson, L.-O., Guan, Y., Gouveia, V. V., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Doron, G., Bilewicz, M., Utsugi, A., Aragones, J. I., Steg, L., Soland, M., Park, J., Otto, S., Demarque, C., Wagner, C., Madsen, O. J., Lebedeva, N., González, R, Schultz, P. W., Saiz, J. L., Kurz, T, Gifford, R., Akotia, C. S., Saviolidis, N. M., & Einarsdóttir, G. (2017). On the relation between social dominance orientation and environmentalism: A 25-nation study. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Bondevik, H., Madsen, O. J. & Solbrække, K. N. (red.) (2017). Snart er vi alle pasienter. Medikalisering i Norden. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.

Madsen, O. J. (2017). Medikaliseringsbegrepets kolonisering av forskerverden. I H. Bondevik, O. J. Madsen & K. N. Solbrække (red.), Snart er vi alle pasienter. Medikalisering i Norden (ss. 25-62). Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.

Madsen, O. J. (2017). Den terapeutiske kultur. 2. utgave. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Madsen, O. J. (2017). Diagnosenes makt over sinnene: refleksjoner om diagnoser og diagnosekritikkens mangler. Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid, 13(1), 25-41.

Petersen, A. & Madsen, O. J. (2017). Depression: Diagnosis and suffering as process. Nordic Psychology, 69(1), 19-32.

Nyborg, K., Anderies, J. M., Dannenberg, A., Lindahl, T., Schill, C., Schluter, M., Adger, W. N., Arrow, K. J., Barrett, S., Carpenter, S., Chapin III, F. S., Crépin, A.-S., Daily, G., Ehrlich, P., Folke, C., Jager, W., Kautsky, N., Levin, S. A., Madsen, O. J., Polasky, S., Scheffer, M., Walker, B., Weber, E. U., Wilen, J., Xepapadeas, A. & De Zeeuw, A. (2016). Social norms as solutions. Science, 354(6308), 42-43.

Kroken, R. & Madsen, O. J. (red.) (2016). Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"? Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.

Kroken, R. & Madsen, O. J. (2016). Fra sosialt arbeid til sosialt entreprenørskap - en moralsk forvandling? I R. Kroken & O. J. Madsen (red.), Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"? (ss. 152-167). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.

Madsen, O. J. (2016). Psykologiens innflytelse i velferdsstaten. I R. Kroken & O. J. Madsen (red.), Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"? (ss. 86-111). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.

Bain, P. G., Milfont, T. L., Kashima, Y., Bilewicz, M., Doron, G., Garðarsdóttir, R. B., Gouveia, V. V., Yanjun, G., Johansson, L.-O., Pasquali, C., Corral-Verdugo, V., Aragones, J. I., Utsugi, A., Demarque, C., Otto, S., Park, J., Soland, M., Steg, L., Gonzalez, R., Lebedeva, N., Madsen, O. J., Wagner, C., Akotia, C. S., Kurz, T., Saiz, J. L., Schultz, P. W., Einarsdóttir, G. & Saviolidis, N. M. (2016). Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world. Nature Climate Change, 6, 154-157.

Skagestad, L. J. & Madsen, O. J. (2015). «Man blir så redd for å gå glipp av seg selv» - En tematisk analyse av depresjon hos unge voksne. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 52(9), 751-761.

Madsen, O. J. (2015). Optimizing the Self: Social representations of self-help. London: Routledge.

Kjøs, P., Madsen, O. J. & Tjersland, O. A. (2015). "Barnets beste" i mekling ved samlivsbrudd. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 52(7), 570-579.

Madsen, O. J. (2015). Psychotherapists: Agents of change or maintenance men? I I. Parker (red.), Handbook of Critical Psychology (ss. 222-230). London: Routledge.

Slåttå, L. S. & Madsen, O. J. (2014). «Jeg svømmer alene»: En økopsykologisk utforskning av de endelige vilkår i eksistensiell psykoterapi. Scandinavian Psychologist, 1(e9).

Madsen, O. J. (2014). Hinsides sant eller falskt: En undersøkelse av Ian Hackings teori om mentale lidelsers sosiale dynamikk. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 51(9), 745- 752.

Madsen, O. J. (2014). Psychology oblivious to psychology: Some limits on our capacity for processing psychology in society. Theory & Psychology, 24(5), 609-629.

Madsen, O. J. (2014). The Therapeutic Turn: How psychology Altered Western culture. London: Routledge.

Madsen, O. J. (2014). Psychologisation and critique in modern-day Western culture. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(5), 193-200.

Madsen, O. J. (2014). "Det er innover vi må gå" - en kulturpsykologisk studie av selvhjelp. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Holth, I. K. & Madsen, O. J. (2013). Behandling på boks - En kasusstudie av selvhjelpsverktøyet 'Psykologisk førstehjelp' som normativ diskurs. Matrix - nordisk tidsskrift for psykoterapi, 30(4), 285-303.

Madsen, O. J. (2013). Parenthood in Norway: Between politics and science. I M. Ah-King (red.): Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology (s. 89-100). New York: Springer.

Øyen, S. A. & Madsen, O. J. (2013). The second cultural revolution? Individualization and the emergence of psychology in late modern China. I: C. Brautaset & C. M. Dent (red.), The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development (s. 117-131). Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Madsen, O. J. (2013). Doing critical psychology in a state of affluence. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, (10), 756-764.

Bjørkelo, B. & Madsen, O. J. (2013). Whistleblowing and neoliberalism: Political resistance in late capitalist economy. Psychology & Society, 5(2), 28-40.

Madsen, O. J. (2013). Depoliticising society. The strained relationship between science and politics in psychology. Psychology & Society, 5(2), 46-57.

Madsen, O. J., Johannes, S. & Øyen, S. A. (2013). 'I am a philosopher of the particular case': An interview with the 2009 Holberg prizewinner Ian Hacking. History of the Human Sciences, 26(3), 32-51.

Madsen, O. J. (2013). The ethics of psychology in the age of the globalized therapeutic culture. I: Marvakis, A., Motzkau, J., Painter, D., Ruto-Korir, R., Sullivan, G., Triliva, S. & Wieser, M. (red.), Doing Psychology under New Conditions (s. 219-227). Concord: Captus Press.

Øyen, S. A. & Madsen, O. J. (2013). Individet slipper fri: selvhjelp, selvmord og depresjon i det senmoderne Kina. Sosiologi i dag, 43(1), 31-57.

Flatseth, M. & Madsen, O. J. (2013). The mind is a brittle object: The abortion law and therapeutic legitimation. History of the Human Sciences, 26(1), 111-127.

Grenness, C.-E. & Madsen, O. J. (2012). Kritiske forutsetninger for moderne psykologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 49(8), 759-765.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Baudrillard and videocracy: the virtual absence of the political. The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 9(3).

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Filosofisk praksis – et paradoksalt tilskudd i «den terapeutiske kultur». Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 47(2), 89-101.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Hvorfor trenger vi en kritisk psykologi? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 49(8), 740-745.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Kritisk psykologi - røtter og framtid. Nordiske udkast, 40(1), 3-18.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Psychology as science or psychology as religion. I: S. A. Øyen, T. Lund-Olsen & N. Sørensen Vaage (red.), Sacred science? On science and its interrelations with religious worldviews (s. 75-86). Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). Tapetbevissthet. Om "utopienes død" i Axel Jensens Epp. Sosiologisk Årbok, (1), 151-166.

Madsen, O. J. (2012). The liturgical reform of the Sunday high mass: The last attempt of Christ? The therapeutic and Christian cultures revised. Studia Theologica, 66(2), 166-189.

Madsen, O. J. & Arnulf, J. K. (2012). Arbeidets nødvendighet: Samtale om Klaus Holzkamp. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 49(8), 771-774.

Madsen, O. J. & Brinkmann, S. (2012). Lost in paradise: Paradise Hotel and the showcase of shamelessness. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 12(5), 459-467.

Madsen, O. J. & Ytre-Arne, B. (2012). Me at my best: therapeutic ideals in Norwegian women's magazines. Communication, Culture & Critique, 5(1), 20-37.

Madsen, O. J. (2011). Nyliberalismens sosialpsykologi: Dany-Robert Dufours kritikk av nyliberalismen. Agora: Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon, 29(1), 94-117.

Madsen, O. J. (2011). The Unfolding of the Therapeutic. The Cultural Influence of Psychology in Contemporary Society. Ph.d-avhandling. Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen. 168 s.

Madsen, O. J. & Brinkmann, S. (2011). The disappearance of psychologisation? Annual Review of Critical psychology, 8, 179-199.

Madsen, O. J. (2010). Den terapeutiske kultur. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Madsen, O. J. (2010). Finanskrisen som meningskrise. I: O. J. Madsen & S. A. Øyen (red.), Markedets fremtid: Kapitalismen i krise? (s. 179-206). Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk.

Madsen, O. J. & Øyen, S. A. (2010) (red). Markedets fremtid: kapitalismen i krise? Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk.

Madsen, O. J., Servan, J. & Øyen, S. A. (2010). En interaktiv type. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 27(1-2), 115-126.

Madsen, O. J. (2009). Psykologi, samfunn og etikk. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening, 46(2), 144-152.

Madsen, O. J. (2006). In psychology we trust... Vardøger, (30), 157-187.

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Amrud, Ingvild Jensen; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Kjøs, Peder (2018). My Little Brony - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av unge menn som ser på animasjonsserien My Little Pony. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 55(2), s 94- 105
Larsen, Eskil A. Wold & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Fra fantasier om bærekraft til bærekraftige fantasier En lacansk diskursanalyse av grønn ideologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 55(6), s 514- 526 Vis sammendrag
This article draws upon the psychoanalytic framework of Lacanian discourse analysis to explore political subjects’ affective investment in green ideology. An analysis of key texts by the Norwegian Green Party reveal how the Green Party postulate «nature» as the symbolic structure for man’s existence (the big Other), which the subject is invited to maintain through the notion of «sustainability» and promise of jouissance. The Green Party gives a conflicting account of the bond between man and nature, which serves both as a limit where symbolization falls short and an explanation to the constituent lack that green ideology necessarily must cover up. Finally, we discuss the prospect of a post-fantasmatic approach to green politics in the current political climate.
Lohne-Knudsen, Liv & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Orthorexia nervosa - en kulturdiagnose for vår tid?. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 55(1), s 13- 23
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Den terapeutiske skolesekken? Fremtidens skole slik Ludvigsen-utvalget ser det, I: Kristian Bjørkdahl (red.), Rapporten: Sjanger og styringsverktøy. Pax Forlag. ISBN 978-82-530-4052-3. 8. s 204 - 230
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Verden forgår, men mennesket består, I: Peter Bjerregaard & Kyrre Kverndokk (red.), Kollaps. På randen av fremtiden.. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISBN 9788282654234. 7. s 85 - 97
Midtgaard, Madeleine Brørs & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Exploring Local Knowledge on Climate Variability in Bangladesh: a Cultural Psychological Inquiry. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. . doi: 10.1007/s42087-018-0031-9 Vis sammendrag
This article looks at the impact of climate variability on communities in northeast Bangladesh through narrative-based interviews with community actors. We investigate the construction of climate knowledge looking particularly at processes of knowing by applying a cultural psychological approach. The findings reveal that personal experiences with weather were the most common source of knowledge on climate variability. Existing knowledge systems, such as the seasonal calendar aided participants in reasoning and sense making about changes, and elders, media outlets, and science formed the most trusted sources of climate information. Lessons drawn from the study emphasize a need to include cultural and contextual factors when investigating how people construct and build climate knowledge in the future.
Weme, Andrea Varga & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. 1(1), s 1- 22 . doi: 10.1007/s42087-018-0023-9 Vis sammendrag
The purpose of this qualitative enquiry was to map the psychological motives behind sustainable lifestyles. Narrative interviews with inhabitants (N = 8) of the ecovillage in Hurdal north of Oslo and the Sustainable Lives movement in Bergen were conducted. A thematic analysis shows that the informants express taking responsibility for climate change, which suggests that they perceive sustainability as a moral issue. They report a greater sense of alignment with their own values when living sustainably, something that is experienced as rewarding, but living sustainably is also recognized as more positive in own right. For example, the participants enjoy a lifestyle that is more social after a change to sustainable living. Nevertheless, there is acceptance that the informants sometimes have to live in ways that are less environmentally friendly in order to achieve the long-term goal; this duality helps them to continue their sustainable lifestyle even in the face of setbacks.
Bondevik, Hilde; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Solbrække, Kari Nyheim (2017). Snart er vi alle pasienter: Medikalisering i Norden fra vugge til grav, I: Hilde Bondevik; Ole Jacob Madsen & Kari Nyheim Solbrække (red.), Snart er vi alle pasienter. Medikalisering i Norden. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230401859. Innledning. s 7 - 23
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Diagnosenes makt over sinnene : refleksjoner om diagnoser og diagnosekritikkens mangler. Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid. ISSN 1503-6707. 14(1), s 25- 42 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3010-2017-01-04 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). «Hvordan har dere det egentlig?» Som man spør, får man svar. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. 127(3), s 40- 45
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Medikaliseringsbegrepets kolonisering av forskerverden, I: Hilde Bondevik; Ole Jacob Madsen & Kari Nyheim Solbrække (red.), Snart er vi alle pasienter. Medikalisering i Norden. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230401859. 1. s 25 - 62
Milfont, Taciano L.; Bain, Paul G.; Kashima, Yoshihisa; Corral-Verdugo, Victor; Pasquali, Carlota; Johansson, Lars-Olof; Guan, Yanjun; Gouveia, Valdiney V.; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Doron, Guy; Bilewicz, Michał; Utsugi, Akira; Aragones, Juan Ignacio; Steg, Linda; Soland, Martin; Park, Joonha; Otto, Siegmar; Demarque, Christophe; Wagner, Claire; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Lebedeva, Nadezhda; González, Roberto; Schultz, P. Wesley; Saiz, José L.; Kurz, Tim; Gifford, Robert; Akotia, Charity S.; Saviolidis, Nina M. & Einarsdóttir, Gró (2017). On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism: A 25-Nation Study. Social Psychology and Personality Science. ISSN 1948-5506. s 1- 13 . doi: /10.1177/1948550617722832 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
Petersen, Anders & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Depression: Diagnosis and suffering as process. Nordic Psychology. ISSN 1901-2276. 69(1), s 19- 32 . doi: 10.1080/19012276.2016.1267913 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag
The high rates of depression – as well as the widespread diagnosis of depression – are both controversial and contested in contemporary late-modern society. Issues of flawed definition have been voiced to account for the bourgeoning rates of depression and the diagnosis has been subject to criticism of medicalization and pharmaceuticalization. Others have stated that the actualization of depression is to be seen in light of societal and structural transformations. Be that as it may, depression is affecting more and more people and the diagnosis is prevalent. In this context, a more nuanced understanding of how people relate to, experience and ascribe meaning to their suffering as depression and being diagnosed as such is needed. This article draws on qualitative interviews from Denmark and Norway to explore lay accounts of depression in contemporary late-modern society. The findings reveal that lay accounts of suffering, including living with the diagnosis of depression is a dynamic process, meaning that people vacillate in and out of various perspectives of suffering and categorization to make it fit their specific life situation and prospects of the future. In this article we thus highlight the perspectives of thoroughly analyzing suffering and the diagnostic experience by applying the overall concept of process, which takes on different meanings in the course of the analysis.
Bain, Paul G.; Milfont, Taciano L.; Kashima, Yoshihisa; Bilewicz, Michał; Doron, Guy; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Gouveia, Valdiney V.; Guan, Yanjun; Johansson, Lars-Olof; Pasquali, Carlota; Corral-Verdugo, Victor; Aragones, Juan Ignacio; Utsugi, Akira; Demarque, Christophe; Otto, Siegmar; Park, Joonha; Soland, Martin; Steg, Linda; Gonzalez, Roberto; Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Wagner, Claire; Akotia, Charity S.; Kurz, Tim; Saiz, José L.; Schultz, P. Wesley; Einarsdóttir, Gró & Saviolidis, Nina M. (2016). Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world. Nature Climate Change. ISSN 1758-678X. 6(2), s 154- 157 . doi: 10.1038/nclimate2814 Vis sammendrag
Personal and political action on climate change is traditionally thought to be motivated by people accepting its reality and importance. However, convincing the public that climate change is real faces powerful ideological obstacles1, 2, 3, 4, and climate change is slipping in public importance in many countries5, 6. Here we investigate a different approach, identifying whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change7 could motivate pro-environmental behaviour around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real. We describe an integrated framework for assessing beliefs about co-benefits8, distinguishing social conditions (for example, economic development, reduced pollution or disease) and community character (for example, benevolence, competence). Data from all inhabited continents (24 countries; 6,196 participants) showed that two co-benefit types, Development (economic and scientific advancement) and Benevolence (a more moral and caring community), motivated public, private and financial actions to address climate change to a similar degree as believing climate change is important. Critically, relationships were similar for both convinced and unconvinced participants, showing that co-benefits can motivate action across ideological divides. These relationships were also independent of perceived climate change importance, and could not be explained by political ideology, age, or gender. Communicating co-benefits could motivate action on climate change where traditional approaches have stalled.
Kroken, Randi & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"?, I: Randi Kroken & Ole Jacob Madsen (red.), Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"?. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-05-49269-1. 1. s 10 - 25
Kroken, Randi & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Fra sosialt arbeid til sosialt entreprenørskap - en moralsk forvandling?, I: Randi Kroken & Ole Jacob Madsen (red.), Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"?. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-05-49269-1. 8. s 152 - 167
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Psykologiens innflytelse i velferdsstaten, I: Randi Kroken & Ole Jacob Madsen (red.), Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"?. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-05-49269-1. 5. s 86 - 111
Kjøs, Peder; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Tjersland, Odd Arne (2015). "Barnets beste" i mekling ved samlivsbrudd. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 52(7), s 570- 579
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Psychotherapists: Agents of change or maintenance men?, In Ian Parker (ed.), Handbook of Critical Psychology. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-84872-218-7. 23. s 222 - 230
Skagestad, Linn Julie & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). «Man blir så redd for å gå glipp av seg selv» - En tematisk analyse av depresjon hos unge voksne. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 52(9), s 751- 761 Vis sammendrag
Depression is emerging as one of the major threats to public health in the 21st century. Yet, unexpectedly few studies have looked into how defining features of late modernity, like increased complexity, detraditionalization and individualization, may upset young people’s subjectivation, well-being and mental health. This study provides qualitative interviews with seven Norwegian young adults between 20 and 31 years that have experienced a bout of depression. The results reveal that failure to live up to perceived standards and ideals of contemporary Western neoliberal culture of the sovereign, self-governing individual, in total control of all aspects of life, looms large over their heads. However, there were also more personal unique themes about bullying and genetic dispositions for depression that suggest that sociocultural theories about late modern life as producing conditions for depression must be interpreted in line with more individual biographic and biological factors.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Hinsides sant eller falskt: En undersøkelse av Ian Hackings teori om mentale lidelsers sosiale dynamikk. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 51(9), s 745- 752
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Psychologisation and Critique in Modern-day Western Culture. Social & Personality Psychology Compass. ISSN 1751-9004. 8(5), s 193- 200 . doi: 10.1111/spc3.12103 Vis sammendrag
The paper reflects on the advancement of the psychologisation of Western society through the notion of «the therapeutic ethos» and discusses political and moral implications of its “triumph”. It is argued that the attempt to exorcise a “therapeutic Zeitgeist” showcases the problems of critique of contemporary culture. The Zeitgeist reveals itself as much in the tools of critique as the objective of critique. I therefore conclude that popular critical methods like discourse analysis have itself become a hegemonic discourse, which rarely equals its philosophical originator Michel Foucault's imaginative radical ambition.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Psychology oblivious to psychology: Some limits on our capacity for processing psychology in society. Theory & psychology. ISSN 0959-3543. 24(5), s 609- 629 . doi: 10.1177/0959354314543969 Vis sammendrag
George A. Miller’s presidential address to the American Psychological Association in 1969 urged psychologists “to give psychology away” in order to solve social problems related to human health and welfare, and has since become a standard reference for calls for social responsibility. But Miller also envisioned a psychological revolution that would ultimately change humankind’s concept of itself. In the decades that followed, according to numerous historical studies, psychology’s influence was vital to the conduct of self-governing that resulted in a globalised therapeutic culture. Yet, professional psychology’s self-perception, in Norway and around the world, continues to rest on the modernist assumption of psychology being something underrepresented and external to society. I argue that the psychological revolution that Miller foresaw should lead responsible professionals to revise the ethical framework; in fact, the moral justice of “taking psychology away” should now be seriously considered.
Slåttå, Lina Søreide & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). «Jeg svømmer alene»: En økopsykologisk utforskning av de endelige vilkår i eksistensiell psykoterapi. Scandinavian Psychologist. ISSN 1894-5570. 1(e9) . doi: 10.15714/scandpsychol.1.e9 Vis sammendrag
In its effort to understand the individual person, psychology has largely overlooked man’s dependency on nature. By taking Irvin D. Yalom’s influential existential psychotherapy as our object of departure, we analyze how his four existential conditions for living – freedom, death, existential isolation and meaninglessness – all fail to reflect on how an intact climate is an unavoidable necessity for all life. Building on insights from ecopsychologists, we reason that a fifth existential condition for living, existential dependency on nature, should be included. Finally, we maintain that all prominent psychological ideas about wellbeing must be brought up to date with the challenge from the looming environmental crisis.
Bjørkelo, Brita & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Whistleblowing and neoliberalism: Political resistance in late capitalist economy. Psychology & Society. ISSN 2041-5893. 5(2), s 28- 40 Vis sammendrag
The reigning global market ideology, frequently referred to as neoliberalism, inherently strives for fewer economic regulations in order to create greater wealth for humanity. Whistleblowing, on the other hand, is an action that aims at preserving the conditions and values of the greater common good. Therefore, economic considerations, and human and ethical considerations sometimes collide. In the present globalised economy where neoliberalism endeavours for fewer regulations, workers that oppose wrongdoing at work (i.e. whistleblowers) seem to hold a unique position in-between governmental interference and singular action. Whistleblowers are neither sole state regulators nor grass root activists but attempt to effect change from within the organisation. This paper discusses ways in which neoliberalism can influence the act of whistleblowing.
Flatseth, Merethe & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). The mind is a brittle object: The abortion law and therapeutic legitimation. History of the Human Sciences. ISSN 0952-6951. 26(1), s 111- 127 . doi: 10.1177/0952695112474285 Vis sammendrag
This article takes a historical look at abortion in Norway, especially the parliamentary debates and the legislation on selective abortion. By using metaphor theory and discourse analysis we disclose that mental health issues came into practice as a legitimate cause for selective abortion for women in Norway from the 1960s and recur in more recent debates about important amendments in 1996 and 2003. In order to abort, women must simultaneously adopt a psychological means of self-representation. The history of the discourse on selective abortion in Norway thus illustrates the often ambiguous relationship between reproductive policy and ‘psy’. The analysis also shows that a therapeutic discourse today creates a framework of meaning for all political parties in Norway in the questions regarding abortion, including the Christian Democratic Party traditionally committed to religious motifs. This particular part of the history of abortion in Norway suggests that the psy-sciences and a therapeutic outlook on the self and society came into being in Norway from the 1960s, marking a defining moral shift from the previous religious and moral reasoning to a therapeutic ethos.
Holth, Ida Kathrine & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Behandling på boks - En kasusstudie av selvhjelpsverktøyet 'Psykologisk førstehjelp' som normativ diskurs. Matrix. ISSN 0109-646X. 30(4), s 285- 303 Vis sammendrag
Denne artikkelen er en kasusstudie av det norske selvhjelpsskrinet Psykologisk førstehjelp, et kognitivt psykoedukativt program rettet inn mot barn og unge i alderen 8 til 18 år. Verktøyet har vist seg lovende i arbeidet med psykisk helse hos barn og unge, og er vurdert som noe alle barn og unge potensielt kan ha nytte av. Med et diskursanalytisk utgangspunkt spør vi i denne artikkelen om hvilke underliggende normer som formidles til barn og unge når prinsipper fra individualpsykologisk praksis tas i bruk som et allment forebyggingstiltak. Resultatene av vår diskursanalyse indikerer at skrinene står i fare for å fremme en reduksjonistisk forståelse av emosjoner ved å plassere dem i dikotomiske kategorier. Idealer om positiv tenkning og økt selvkontroll gjenspeiler en tendens i psykologifaget til å fremme en form for instrumentell etikk, som kan stå i fare for å erstatte løsninger og forebyggingstiltak av mer relasjonell og samfunnsmessig art. Mer forskning på implementeringen av Psykologisk førstehjelp behøves imidlertid for å undersøke hvordan disse underliggende normene kan gjøre seg gjeldende i praksis.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Depoliticising society. The strained relationship between science and politics in psychology. Psychology & Society. ISSN 2041-5893. 5(2), s 46- 57 Vis sammendrag
Within philosophy of science the belief in universal, value free science has been largely abandoned over the recent decades due to the epistemological and moral bias latent in Western “white male” metaphysics (Code, 1991; Lloyd, 1993). However, as this paper will examine, psychology as an academic discipline may yet have to adapt to this widely accepted theoretical criticism regarding its own underlying presumptions. This suspected neglect is discussed in relation to Sandra Harding’s notion of depoliticisation applied to three cases: (1) A recent debate on caregiving and fatherhood in Norway, (2) a debate on infidelity in a Norwegian newspaper, and (3) the conduct of the research project The Bergen Child Study (2002—). The three case studies illustrate how some psychologists may no longer theoretically embrace universal realism, but in psychological research and in public debate that draws on psychological experts, this ideal of knowledge still persists in all three cases. The explanation for this might be that the psychologists in question in their clinical practice, or their research, are professional representatives of an internal belief system where the psychologist’s role is to uncover and ultimately heal what is really “out there.”
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Doing Critical Psychology in a State of Affluence. Annual Review of Critical Psychology. ISSN 1746-739X. (10), s 756- 764 Vis sammendrag
Critical psychologists’ objective is to understand forms of social injustice and inequality, and ultimately change conditions to the better. Historically critical psychology evolved from the student revolt in Germany in the late 1960s as a reaction against an unjust capitalistic society, and poor living conditions for students. In recent years critical psychology appears to have been most prominent in societies in Latin America often characterized by their endemic poverty and forms of exclusion. What then of one of the wealthiest and well-managed countries in the world, Norway? In this paper I give a brief discussion of the challenges of doing critical psychology in a state of affluence. Does critical psychology become redundant? Does critical psychology’s objective change? Or none of the above, which suggests that critical psychology and its aim, is the same independent of historical and national context.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Een ademloos discours: therapeutische cultuur en de mogelijkheid van kritiek. Ethiek Maatschappij. ISSN 1373-0975. 15(1), s 57- 67
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Kritisk psykologi? Men landet er jo Norge!. Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi. ISSN 0801-2911. 65(3), s 58- 66
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Parenthood in Norway: Between politics and science, In Malin Ah-King (ed.), Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-01978-9. 9. s 89 - 100 Vis sammendrag
Norwegian legislators have recently altered the legal regulations for the parental leave. Parents are now given the chance to split the existing one year of leave fifty-fifty. A newly proposed bill even seeks to make paternity leave mandatory. Several Norwegian medical and psychological experts have opposed this newly introduced legislation. Their argument is that ‘Research shows that…’ young children may show symptoms of stress reactions and in the worst case suffer from mental health disorders later in life when the primary caregiver changes during the child’s first year of life. Many of the experts implicitly seem to defend a normative idea of static ‘natural preferences’ between men and women, as a basis for a conservative political outlook, that neglects that deducing from scientific knowledge to political decision-making rarely is straightforward. The experts in question rarely seem to recognise that questions of maternity and paternity leave, also concerns opposing values and political priorities, for instance equal rights between the sexes.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). The ethics of psychology in the age of the globalized therapeutic culture, In Athanasios Marvakis; Johanna Motzkau; Desmond Painter; Rose Ruto-Korir; Gavin Sullivan; Sofia Triliva & Martin Wieser (ed.), Doing Psychology under New Conditions. Captus Press Inc.. ISBN 978-1-55322-279-8. 25. s 219 - 227 Vis sammendrag
Psychology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is often depicted as a globalized therapeutic culture, existent in evermore niches of late Western society. How can this "everywhereness of psychology" be dealt with by the discipline of psychology in a responsible manner? The article maintains that whereas in previous decades the debate has been whether psychologists should refrain from any extra-laboratory activities, or should actively take the role of promoters of human welfare in society, this distinction is no longer meaningful, as psychology already finds itself in the center of Western culture. I highlight the new challenge for psychology under new conditions by the recent rise of cosmetic surgery in Norway, which is embedded in the therapeutic culture, and thus avoids criticism by advocating that surgical interventions is mainly directed at gaining self-esteem. I conclude that the present challenge might be considered the final argument for societal ethics rather than traditional professional ethics, in order to sufficiently deal with the present psychologized state of affairs.
Øyen, Simen Andersen & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Individet slipper fri: selvhjelp, selvmord og depresjon i det senmoderne Kina. Sosiologi i dag. ISSN 0332-6330. 43(1), s 31- 57 Vis sammendrag
I denne artikkelen presenterer vi subjektiverings- og individualiseringsprosesser i Kina de siste 30 årene og drøfter fremveksten av psykologi på bakgrunn av disse skiftene. Parallelt med Kinas særegne utvikling fra en planstyrt til en senkapitalistisk økonomi finner vi tegn på dype strukturelle endringer i idealene for enkeltmennesket som minner om individualiseringsprosesser vi har sett i vestlige land. Ved å ta for oss depresjon, selvmord og selvhjelp i Kina finner vi at den unge middelklassen på mange måter gjennomlever en ”ny kulturrevolusjon” der de må innrette sine liv både etter omgivelsene og tradisjonens forventninger og indre krav til autentisitet og selvrealisering. Behovet for psykologisk ekspertise er derfor økende selv om den herskende diskursen rundt psykiske lidelser og plager fortsatt synes vel så moralistisk som terapeutisk.
Øyen, Simen Andersen & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). The second cultural revolution? Individualization and the emergence of psychology in late modern China, In Camilla Brautaset & Christopher M. Dent (ed.), The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-8686-233-7. 7. s 117 - 131 Vis sammendrag
This article gives a partial overview over the research literature on individualization in contemporary China, and examines shifts in the ideals of the Chinese subjectivity. Over the last couple of decades China has evolved from an authoritarian State into a late neoliberal capitalist economy. This development has also set off deep structural changes regarding the ideals and strains on selfhood, comparable to previously observed cultural revolutions in the West in the wake of the sexual uprising and birth of countercultures throughout the 1960s. Of particular interest is the subjective turn which has led to the eruption of a booming psychological market targeted both to the promises and pitfalls of the newly exposed Chinese Enterprise Self. The results of the analysis from the therapeutic culture in China reveal that Chinese style individualization is both similar and different to previous investigations in Western countries.
Grenness, Carl-Erik & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Kritiske forutsetninger for moderne psykologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(8), s 759- 765 Vis sammendrag
In this brief overview article we present key scientific and modernistic philosophical precursors for critical thinking of importance for modern psychology from Sir Francis Bacon in the 16th century to Jürgen Habermas in the 21st century. «Critical» stems etymologically from the Greek word «krinein», which describes the process of differentiating, to judge or to decide, in order to avoid error. Thus, all science, psychology included, is essentially epistemological compelled to contain a vigorous critical attitude towards its own assertions. Through this short presentation of «critique» from within the history of ideas we remind readers that current «critical psychology» as distinctly unalike mainstream psychology is either a misconstrued tautology, or represents a symptom of real crisis for contemporary psychology if it fails to live up to traditional criteria for science, established under the Scientific Revolution six centuries ago.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Baudrillard and Videocracy: The Virtual Absence of the Political. The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. ISSN 1705-6411. 9(3)
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Filosofisk praksis – et paradoksalt tilskudd i «den terapeutiske kultur». Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1943. 47(2), s 89- 101 Vis sammendrag
Philosophical counselling originated in Germany in the early 1980s and is now available in most Western countries as a commercial service to ‘guests’ seeking a deeper insight on personal or world matters. The philosophical counselling movement distances itself from established health professions like psychotherapy or psychiatry and often directs criticism against them for reducing existential and moral questions to a matter of health and sickness. However, by relating philosophical counselling to the present «therapeutic culture» I argue that the movement share many traits with more overt forms of therapy. Despite that philosophical counsellors do not prescribe antidepressants or set psychiatric diagnosis, they are still therapeutic agents in a self-absorbed «makeover culture» and might also become an inadvertent remedy for its enhancement and reinforcement. Philosophical counselling is currently a peripheral institution with limited influence upon society, but is in need of a socio-historic revision of its current status as much as the health professions it sets out to criticise.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Hvorfor trenger vi en kritisk psykologi?. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(8), s 740- 745 Vis sammendrag
This article offers a brief overview of the field «critical psychology» which over the last two decades has undergone a consolidation. In order to answer the proposed problem «Why do we need critical psychology?» the paper draws on Popper’s distinction between science and pseudoscience, to demonstrate that the urgent question for psychology today is not primarily its scientific status - «What is psychology?», but the ethical implications for society - «What are the consequences of psychologisation?» However, «the metaphysics of uncovering», whether it reveals universal structures in the brain or previously unknown prevalence of mental health problems in the population, including the traditional critique of these practices, is unhelpful as a foundation for self-critique. The profession of psychology’s understanding of its ongoing expansion in society shows that contemporary psychology lacks awareness of the new socio-political territory it occupies – «the therapeutic culture». The need for a critical psychology, or simply a responsible, real science, that treats itself as part of the problem, and not solely as an exclusive part of the solution, is therefore greater than ever.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Kritisk psykologi - røtter og framtid. Nordiske udkast. ISSN 1396-3953. 40(1), s 3- 18 Vis sammendrag
Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over kritisk psykologi sin historiske utvikling, utbredelse i nåtiden og utfordringer for framtiden ut fra dens overordnede mål om å utfordre og forandre mainstream psykologi. Marx og Foucault presenteres som de to filosofiske gigantene fra det 18. og 19. århundret med størst innflytelse på utformingen av kritisk psykologi. Til tross for en rekke ulike skoler og tradisjoner i dag, så forenes kritiske psykologer likevel rundt et felles etisk-politisk mål om å bekjempe undertrykkelse og fremme sosial rettferdighet. Selv om framtiden unektelig ser lys ut for kritisk psykolog, gitt at mainstream psykologi ser ut til å fortsette sin ekspansjon, så ligger det likevel potensielle konflikter mellom dens ideologiske-marxistiske arv og kritisk tenkning som må løses. Kritisk psykologi sitt prosjekt må til stadighet tas opp til kritisk vurdering for å unngå de abstrakte, tilstivnende reifikasjonene bevegelsen i utgangspunktet ønsker å motvirke.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Psychology as science or psychology as religion, In Simen Andersen Øyen; Tone Lund-Olsen & Nora Sørensen Vaage (ed.), Sacred science? On science and its interrelations with religious worldviews. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-8686-196-5. 6. s 75 - 86
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Tapetbevissthet. Om "utopienes død" i Axel Jensens Epp. Sosiologisk Årbok. ISSN 0808-288X. (1), s 151- 166
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). The liturgical reform of the Sunday high mass: The last attempt of Christ? The therapeutic and Christian cultures revised. Studia Theologica. ISSN 0039-338X. 66(2), s 166- 189 . doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2012.726930 Vis sammendrag
This article examines the intersection between the therapeutic and the Christian cultures, and the common conviction among scholars of the therapeutic, such as Philip Rieff, that the subjective turn eventually will overthrow organized Christianity. The culture clash between secularism and religion is engaged through the Protestant Church of Norway's liturgical reform of the Sunday high mass 2004–2011, which aims to make the liturgical service more relevant. The analysis of both institutional and theological attempts at finding a balance between the old and the new suggests that the authority of the emotive self strongly challenges the truth of God. Still, there are signs of a cultural merger that suggest the Church of Norway will prevail. The outcome, however, will not satisfy conservative theologians and critics of the therapeutic culture, as God, in order to survive, must accept a more subordinate supportive role as an optional remedy for well-being.
Madsen, Ole Jacob & Brinkmann, Svend (2012). Lost in paradise: Paradise Hotel and the showcase of shamelessness. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies. ISSN 1532-7086. 12(5), s 459- 467 . doi: 10.1177/1532708612453011 Vis sammendrag
This article examines the Norwegian and Danish versions of the reality television series Paradise Hotel. The reality show emulates what postmodern consumer society wants us to believe in: a kind of “second transgression” for the human being, in which she is both free and without anxiety. The guests (predominantly male in line with prevailing gender norms) at Paradise Hotel may qualify as shameless—after spells of physical and psychological revelations in front of the camera with no visible regrets—still, the price is perhaps the loss rather than the gain of freedom. The medialized shameless self demands the subordination to narrow bodily and emotional standards during filming, which postpones most of the guests’ shame and regrets until after the cameras are turned off. This particular Fall may have unwanted personal consequences that lead to a spiral ascent crueler than Adam and Eve ever underwent.
Madsen, Ole Jacob & Ytre-Arne, Brita (2012). Me at my best: therapeutic ideals in Norwegian women's magazines. Communication, Culture & Critique. ISSN 1753-9129. 5(1), s 20- 37 . doi: 10.1111/j.1753-9137.2011.01118.x Vis sammendrag
This article examines “the therapeutic culture” in contemporary women's magazines. A qualitative content analysis of the leading Norwegian women's magazines KK and Tara reveals how psychological experts, self-help advice, and the presentation of the self reflects a therapeutic ethos which has become a norm for women, offering a manageable way of dealing with individual self-realization. Leading theorists on the modern self argue that therapeutic discourses permeate the cultures of the Western world, and our analysis suggests that therapeutic discourses have succeeded in becoming recognized as cultural resources of selfhood in the local context we examine—Norway. The ideal of the empowered woman who is responsible enough to take care of her self stands at the forefront in these magazines.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Nyliberalismens sosialpsykologi: Dany-Robert Dufours kritikk av nyliberalismen. Agora : Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. 29(1), s 94- 117
Madsen, Ole Jacob & Brinkmann, Svend (2011). The disappearance of psychologisation?. Annual Review of Critical Psychology. ISSN 1746-739X. 8, s 179- 199 Vis sammendrag
The term psychologisation refers to psychology‘s variegated imprints on late modern Western society. In this paper, we argue that over the last few decades, psychologisation has become such a pervasive phenomenon that it is almost no longer possible to speak of psychologisation as something distinct from other systems of meaning that can be subjected to critique. We draw on the French contemporary author Michel Houellebecq‘s novel Whatever that examines the personal consequences of living under an individualised, psychological regime. To be a human being today is first and foremost to be a psychological being. A comparison of several influential critics of therapeutic culture leads to a seemingly recurring theme— the loss of alternatives— which now seems to have become a reality. Psychologisation has, therefore, disappeared in the sense that is has evolved into a monotheistic ontology of late modernity.

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Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway. Routledge. ISBN 9780815360421. 166 s. Vis sammendrag
The Psychologization of Society explores the manner in which psychology has increasingly crept into everyday life, with nature reduced to a source of mental health, the belief in God motivated by health not salvation, sin and evil turned into psychiatric diagnosis and the market economy being primarily driven by psychology. Showing that Norway, like the United States and Great Britain, is currently subjected to a psychological worldview or "therapeutic ethos," Madsen examines an array of spheres such as media, law, religion, self-help literature and cosmetic surgery to shed light on the ways in which the therapeutic ethos, rather than simply "triumphing" over them, actually blends in with regional norms and values. A study of the psychological imprint on Western countries as a form of the global democratisation of psychologised self-care, this book explores the boundless struggle to be the "best version of yourself" in contemporary neoliberal culture. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychology and cultural and media studies with interests in therapeutic discourses and paradoxes of health.
Bondevik, Hilde; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Solbrække, Kari Nyheim (red.) (2017). Snart er vi alle pasienter. Medikalisering i Norden. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230401859. 385 s.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Den terapeutiske kultur. 2. utgave. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215028613. 224 s.
Kroken, Randi & Madsen, Ole Jacob (red.) (2016). Forvaltning av makt og moral i velferdsstaten: Fra sosialt arbeid til "arbeid med deg selv"?. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-05-49269-1. 171 s.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Optimizing the Self: Social representations of self-help. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-890967-0. 188 s.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). "Det er innover vi må gå" - en kulturpsykologisk studie av selvhjelp. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-02182-9. 220 s. Vis sammendrag
Ole Jacob Madsen gransker selvhjelpskulturens idealer: nevrolingvistisk programmering, kognitiv selvhjelp, mindfulness, selvledelse, selvfølelse og selvkontroll. Er disse toneangivende retningene bærekraftige i lengden? Selvhjelpslitteraturen speiler og former samtiden. Her møtes kommersielle, religiøse, vitenskapelige og ideologiske krefter og kappes om lesernes oppmerksomhet. De gir ulike oppskrifter for hvordan du skal leve livet ditt. I fraværet av ytre påbud om hva som er riktig å gjøre, får selvhjelpslitteraturen en fortrolig plass i stadig flere menneskers liv. Til tross for dette har den til nå i liten grad vært gjenstand for analyse. Boka gir derfor en oversikt og diskuterer kritisk de mest utbredte formene for psykologisk selvhjelpslitteratur. Boka henvender seg til psykologistudenter, klinikere, og andre interesserte.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). The Therapeutic Turn: How psychology altered Western culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-01869-3. 194 s. Vis sammendrag
In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society? In this book author Ole Jacob Madsen considers the notion of a ‘Therapeutic Turn’ in Western culture – the tendency for psychology to permeate ever new spheres within society. The Therapeutic Turn evaluates the increasing prevalence of psychology in several areas of Western society: Western consumer culture, contemporary Christianity, self-help, sport and politics. Madsen proposes that there are problematic aspects to this development which are seldom recognised due to a widely held assumption that ‘the more psychology, the better for everyone’. A recurring concern with psychological solutions is that they often provide individual solutions to structural problems. As a result, psychologists may be inadvertently increasing the burden on the shoulders of the people they are meant to help and, at the same time, our capacity to understand individual suffering in the light of major historical and political changes in society is becoming increasingly clouded. The Therapeutic Turn presents an accessible and engaging critique of the influence of psychology within Western society. It will appeal to a broad audience of students, academics and lay readers interested in this aspect of modernity and contemporary society, and it will also be of great interest to practitioners and therapists.

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Andersen, Anders Johan W. & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 26. april). Den terapeutiske kultur. [Internett]. Universitet i Agder.
Grønbech, Turi; Haug, Otto & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 28. februar). Generasjon snøfnugg. [Radio]. NRK P2.
Haarde, Margrethe Zacho & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 19. januar). Ekstrem forvandling. A-magasinet.
Halvorsen, Bjørn Egil & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 12. januar). Den store vervejakten. Aftenpostens A-magasinet.
Jahr, Martin & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 02. oktober). Åpenhetens tid: Kan det skade å snakke om det?. [Radio]. NRK P2.
Lerø, Ingrid & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 01. april). -Det har gått inflasjon i bruken av ordet stress. Plot.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Den betingede åpenheten om psykiske lidelser. Aftenposten. s 34- 35
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). «Den terapeutiske kulturen» - et kritisk blikk.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Den terapeutiske skolen - hvilke motforestillinger finnes?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). "Det er innover vi må gå" - et kritisk blikk på selvhjelpskulturen.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). "Det er innover vi må gå" - et kritisk blikk på selvhjelpskulturen.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Du skal regulere deg selv!. Morgenbladet.no.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Generasjon prestasjon.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Generasjon prestasjon: Hva er det som feiler oss?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). «Generasjon snøfnugg» - eller en forutinntatt voksengenerasjon?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Invitasjon til kritisk psykologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Invitasjon til kritisk psykologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Kosmetisk kirurgi og Moss Avis. Moss Avis. s 16- 17
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Kræsjkurs i kritisk psykologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Opplysningen: Krenkelse.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Psykologers samfunnsansvar.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Psykologers samfunnsrolle og etiske ansvar utover det kliniske ansvaret.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Psykt eller normalt?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Samfunnet i selvets tidsalder.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). Snøfnugg kan du være selv. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. s 30- 31
Misje, Ingeborg & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 24. januar). Stoisk ro i hektisk tid. Vårt Land.
Moe, Ole Johan & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 01. september). Katastrofeturisme i Fukushima. [Tidsskrift]. Plot.
Nyhus, Ingrid & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018). I selvrealiseringens tid.
Sandåker, Lars; Jåbekk, Pål & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 02. februar). Ole Jacob Madsen om kritisk psykologi, ansvar, diagnoser og ortoreksi. [Internett]. Lars og Pål podcast.
Sylte, Turid & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 02. juni). Hele byrden på menneskets skuldre. Vårt Land.
Vaaland, Mattis C. O. & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 11. oktober). Vil møte klimakrise med moral. Vårt Land.
Westeng, Kjersti & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2018, 07. oktober). Stadig flere unge jenter sliter psykisk. [Internett]. Nettavisen.
Andenæs, Agnes; Benum, Kirsten; Carlquist, Erik; Halvorsen, Margrethe S.; Hauge, Mona-Iren; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Moss, Sigrun Marie; Oddli, Hanne; Roen, Katrina; Råbu, Marit; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Stänicke, Erik; Strømme, Hanne; Sveaass, Nora & Tjersland, Odd Arne (2017). Sneversynt om psykologisk kunnskap. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 198(5), s 28- 29
Clare, Emma & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 12. februar). Innafor. [TV]. NRK.
Danielsen, Dina & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 01. mars). Hvor kommer jeg fra? Dypdykk i DNA. [Tidsskrift]. Kamille.
Hammersmark, Karoline Berge & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 14. februar). Åpenhetens pris. [Internett]. NRK.
Hansen, Cathrine Krane & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 09. mai). – Ikke hør så mye på sånne som meg. Bergens Tidende.
Høstmælingen, Andreas & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Vil flere psykologer i samfunnet løse problemet eller bidra til flere problemer?.
Korsvik, Trine Rogg & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 01. november). Hva er kjønnsperspektiver i psykologi?. [Internett]. Kilden kjønnsforskning.
Leine, Jan Erlend & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 09. mai). Psykologiens verdensherredømme. [Radio]. NRK P2.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 09. mai). Hva skal vi med psykologene?. [Internett]. LittPod.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Hva skal vi med psykologene?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). A.I.: Artificial Intelligence – alt mer intelligent?. Montages.no.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Bulldoserbegrepet «medikalisering». Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. (19), s 28- 28
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). De nye prestene. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424. s 18- 19
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Den terapeutiske verdensanskuelsen.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). «Det er innover vi må gå…» Selvutviklingsbølgen i et kritisk perspektiv.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Hvorfor utgi en bok om medikalisering?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Kloden er truet. Moss Avis. s 10- 11
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Lansering av nytt Samtiden: Skamtiden.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Mark Fisher (1968-2017). Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Ole Jacob Madsen om Todd Haynes’ «Safe».
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Psykologens rolle i kommunens behandlingstilbud. Hvor viktig er diagnostisering i behandling?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Revolusjonen vil ikke bli iscenesatt. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (4)
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Snakk mindre om det. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 12- 13
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). “The therapeutic worldview” and its discontents: Only a new worldview can save us now?.
Melsom, Kaja & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Bokbad Den fordømte friheten.
Nesse, Trygve Brurås & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Tabutorsdag: Optimizing the Self.
Nyfløt, Hilda & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 22. juli). Risikosonen. Dagens Næringsliv.
Pileberg, Silje & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 27. januar). Stillhetens time. A-Magasinet.
Schwencke, Morten & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 30. desember). Fra frelse til helse. Vårt Land.
Strand, Nina & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017, 01. mars). Forvandlingen. [Tidsskrift]. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening.
Sørås, Dag; Melsom, Kaja & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2017). Den fordømte psykologien.
Hansen, Christine Kristoffersen & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 28. mai). Midtpunktet. Dagbladet Magasinet.
Hjeltnes, Aslak & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 01. mars). Når selvrealisering blir samfunnsmoral. [Internett]. Akademiet for yngre forskere.
Hverven, Sigurd & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 27. februar). Handling og ubehag. [Internett]. Forfatternes klimaaksjon.
Imeland, Vilde & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 10. april). Eskapisme på resept. Natt&Dag.
Ingebrigtsen, Julia Renate & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 23. august). Emilie «Voe» Nereng kjemper mot presset: Tar et oppgjør med perfektjaget. VG.
Kleive, Johanna Holt & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 24. mai). Den andre puberteten. [Internett]. Puhh - Et sminkefritt pusterom for unge kvinns.
Klyve, Arne & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Om det sosiale som forsvant.
Macdonald, Laila Sandvold & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Enquête: 5 om perspektivet i rusfeltet. Rus & samfunn. ISSN 1500-8614. 10(5), s 42- 42
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Helsestasjonismen. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. s 30- 31
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). Nedsatt virkelighetsfølelse i Antonionis Blow-Up. Montages.no. Vis sammendrag
I år er det 50 år siden den italienske filmskaperen Michelangelo Antonionis kultfilmklassiker Blow-Up hadde premiere. Sørgelig nok ser den ut til å bli litt mer relevant for hvert år som går.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016). "Psychological man" - the last man on Earth?.
Mykkeltveit, Pål & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 01. juli). Nyliberalismens makt over sinnene. [Internett]. Minerva.
Nyborg, Karine; Anderies, John M.; Dannenberg, Astrid; Lindahl, Therese; Schill, Caroline; Schluter, Maja; Adger, W. Neil; Arrow, Kenneth J.; Barrett, Scott; Carpenter, Stephen; Chapin III, F. Stuart; Crépin, Anne-Sophie; Daily, Gretchen; Ehrlich, Paul; Folke, Carl; Jager, Wander; Kautsky, Nils; Levin, Simon A.; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Polasky, Stephen; Scheffer, Marten; Walker, Brian; Weber, Elke U.; Wilen, James; Xepapadeas, Anastasios & De Zeeuw, Aart (2016). Social norms as solutions. Science. ISSN 0036-8075. 354(6308), s 42- 43 . doi: 10.1126/science.aaf8317 Vis sammendrag
Climate change, biodiversity loss, antibiotic resistance, and other global challenges pose major collective action problems: A group benefits from a certain action, but no individual has sufficient incentive to act alone. Formal institutions, e.g., laws and treaties, have helped address issues like ozone depletion, lead pollution, and acid rain. However, formal institutions are not always able to enforce collectively desirable outcomes. In such cases, informal institutions, such as social norms, can be important. If conditions are right, policy can support social norm changes, helping address even global problems. To judge when this is realistic, and what role policy can play, we discuss three crucial questions: Is a tipping point likely to exist, such that vicious cycles of socially damaging behavior can potentially be turned into virtuous ones? Can policy create tipping points where none exist? Can policy push the system past the tipping point?
Roald, Jon Marius & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 04. november). –Selvledelse kan øke stresset for den enkelte. Ukeavisen Ledelse.
Rygg, Inga Skogvoll; Norum, Marie Lytomt & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 18. januar). Hardere, bedre, raskere, sterkere. [Internett]. Dusken.no.
Sandåker, Lars; Jåbekk, Pål & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 10. juni). Episode 12: Ole Jacob Madsen om psykologi og selvhjelpskultur. [Internett]. Lars og Pål - Podcast.
Storrøsten, Kaja & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2016, 15. september). -Positive tanker overvurdert. Dagbladet.
Alm, Maiken & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 04. mars). De lærde strides. Universitas.
Alsaker, Line & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 26. mai). Hvis mindfulness er svaret, hva er da spørsmålet?. [Radio]. NRK P2.
Brattland, Kristin & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 20. april). Styrker samhold med helvetesuke. [Fagblad]. Eiendomsmegleren.
Guanio, Daniel & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 01. oktober). Psykologibølgen. [Internett]. NRK P3.
Hesselberg, Jan-Ole & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 30. mai). Selvhjelpsbøkenes bakside. [Internett]. Psykologlunsj 53/psykologisk.no.
Higson, Elizabeth & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). freedom_79.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Biter av dannelse. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 52(11), s 1006- 1006
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). "Det er innover vi må gå" - Selvhjelpskulturen og psykologien.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Er medikalisering et fruktbart begrep?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Hvis mindfulness er svaret, hva er da spørsmålet?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Individualiseringens samtidshistorie.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Psykologiens plass i samfunnet.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Selvhjelpslitteraturen og samtiden.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015). Terapisamfunnet i den nordiske modellen: Drivkrefter og uttrykksformer.
Milde, Svein Harald & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 13. februar). Protesterer mot gnålende foreldreeksperter. [Internett]. forskning.no.
Solberg, Per Olav & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2015, 05. januar). Penger til klimapsykologi?. [Tidsskrift]. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening.
Bjartvik, Geir Ole & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 05. november). Mindfulness til hjelp og besvær. [Fagblad]. Klartekst.
Clare, Emma & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 11. april). Nirvana 2.0. D2.
Debes, Lars Rune & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 11. april). Dagens navn. Moss Avis.
Flatås, Marius & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 18. november). Frihetens slagside. [Tidsskrift]. Under Dusken.
Flemmen, Haakon & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 07. april). På selvhjelpens avveier. [Internett]. Salongen - Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
Flemmen, Haakon & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 20. mars). På selvhjelpens avveier. Klassekampen.
Halvorsen, Per & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 26. mars). I strupen på selvhjelpskulturen. [Internett]. Norsk Psykologforening.
Høglund, Anders & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 10. april). Med internet på hytta i påsken. [Radio]. Radio Norge.
Johannessen, Gitte & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 26. mars). Mange vil bli som Bertrand Larsen. Tidens Krav.
Jåsund, Birger Kolsrud & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 17. juli). Bøker om mindfulness for barn selger som aldri før. [Radio]. NRK P2 Kulturnytt.
Lunde, Adriane Lilleskare & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 06. november). Selvhjelpsismen. [Tidsskrift]. Speilvendt.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Avhengig av avhengighet. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 51(1), s 66- 67
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Avhengig av avhengighet. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 195(1), s 18- 19
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Den lange veien hjem igjen. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424. 70(84), s 26- 27
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Den nye vitenskapen om selvkontroll. Scandinavian Psychologist. ISSN 1894-5570.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Den terapeutiske kultur: Profesjonell hjelp, selvhjelp og ideologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). "Det er innover vi må gå".
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). "Det er innover vi må gå" - Om psykologi, selvhjelp og ideologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). "Det er innover vi må gå" på 20-30 minutter.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Diagnosens makt over sinnene. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 51(9), s 690- 691
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Du må lede deg selv!. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. 146(13), s 54- 55
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Er psykologer et udelt og ubegrenset gode?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Et kritisk blikk på selvhjelpskulturen.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Gale vandrere. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 195(45), s 26- 27
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Governmentality, In Thomas Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-5582-0. Governmentality. s 814 - 816
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). "Hva gjør det med oss?". Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 51(11), s 936- 940
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Livet etter psykologien. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 12- 13
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Lunsj med Thomas: "Det er innover vi må gå".
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Mens vi venter på noe godt. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 23- 23
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Mindfulness - sentrering, de-sentrering eller selv-sentrering?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Modernity, In Thomas Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-5582-0. Modernity. s 1199 - 1204
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Opium for folk flest. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 20- 21
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Self-Esteem, In Thomas Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-5582-0. Self-esteem. s 1705 - 1707
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Sfærisk asymmetri. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 51(7), s 572- 573
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). The therapeutic turn: How psychology altered Western culture.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Therapeutic Culture, In Thomas Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-5582-0. Therapeutic Culture. s 1965 - 1969
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Transgression, In Thomas Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-5582-0. Transgression. s 2002 - 2004
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014). Å skape bølger. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 17- 17
Myrtveit, Aase Cathrine & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 15. mars). -Det er innover vi må gå!. [Radio]. NRKP2 Verdibørsen.
Myrtveit, Aase Cathrine & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 14. juni). Selvkontroll. [Radio]. NRK P2 Verdibørsen.
Ness, Kjersti Fikse & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 14. september). Nå kan folk som sliter få psykologen i lomma. [Internett]. Adresseavisen.
Sivertsen, Kristin Buvik & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 02. august). Frykter «makeover»-samfunnet. Dagsavisen.
Sæther, Jens Marius & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 22. mars). Pusteproblemer. Dagsavisen.
Tenmann, Jenny & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2014, 26. mars). Etterlyser mer kritisk psykologi. Universitas.
Aardal, Eline Buvarp & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 26. oktober). Lykkejag. [TV]. NRK TV - Dagsrevyen.
Finsrud, Ingvild & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Teknokrater eller intellektuelle på PSI?. Speilvendt. ISSN 1893-4560. (2), s 37- 39
Hjeltnes, Aslak & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Tuning out, tuning out: Når bør vi være kritiske til mindfulness?.
Jansen, Kristin & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 14. juli). Bekymret for at mindfulness fører til passivitet. Bergens Tidende.
Kraft, Kirsti & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 03. desember). Har psykologien blitt vår tids religion og magefølelsen vår Gud?. [Radio]. NRK P2 Ekkoloddet.
Kvittingen, Ida & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 24. mai). På kanten. Morgenbladet.
Laustsen, Eliese; Byrkjedal, Mona & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 13. august). Depresjonslandet. VG.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Critical perspectives on the therapeutic culture: The case of mindfulness.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Det indre klimaparadokset. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. 154(198), s 4- 5
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Det indre klimaparadokset: Hjertet følger ikke alltid hodet.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Mens vi venter på DSM-V. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 50(1), s 42- 43
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Mens vi venter på nye diagnoser. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 194(2), s 17- 17
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Mindless mindfulness?. Ytring : NRK.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Om det politiske i psykologien.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Stresset med stress. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 194(26), s 19- 19
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Stressets genealogi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 50(7), s 712- 713
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Substansløs kritikk?. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 194(21), s 20- 21
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). What's psychology got to do with it?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob; Servan, Johannes & Øyen, Simen Andersen (2013). ‘I am a philosopher of the particular case’: An interview with the 2009 Holberg prizewinner Ian Hacking. History of the Human Sciences. ISSN 0952-6951. 26(3), s 436- 444 . doi: 10.1177/0952695113484318 Vis sammendrag
When Ian Hacking won the Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009 his candidature was said to strengthen the legitimacy of the prize after years of controversy. Ole Jacob Madsen, Johannes Servan and Simen Andersen Øyen have talked to Ian Hacking about current questions in the philosophy and history of science.
Sollien, Therese & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 11. oktober). No når vi alle har blitt sjuke. Dag og Tid.
Sollund, Sigrid & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 13. mai). Om mindfulness. [Radio]. NRK Dagsnytt 18.
Sæther, Jens Marius & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013, 14. september). Apokalypseutmatelsen. Dagsavisen.
Øyen, Simen Andersen & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2013). Fra risbolle til risikosamfunn. Le Monde Diplomatique. ISSN 0026-9395. (3), s 19- 19
Debes, Lars Rune & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 23. januar). Dagens navn. Moss Avis.
Johansen, Robert Veiåker & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 03. november). Etikette for en ny tid. Aftenposten.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 31. juli). Den vonde selvinnsikten. Klassekampen.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 27. september). Dufour til Bergen i dag. Klassekampen.
Lundgaard, Hilde & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 08. september). En diett for alt. Aftenposten.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). De introvertes revolusjon?. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(7), s 700- 701
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Den terapeutiske kultur; Kampen om selvet; Er Gud blitt Den store terapeut?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Fungerer psykologien frigjørende eller undertrykkende i samfunnet?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Gudstjenestereformen: Et forsøk på å ri av/på "den terapeutiske kultur"?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Invitasjon til kritisk psykologi.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Kritisk psykologi: Psykologien plass i samfunnet og samfunnets plass i psykologien.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Om kritisk psykologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(8), s 738- 739
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Oppklaring om kritisk psykologi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(12), s 1226- 1227
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Psychology and neoliberalism: Strange bedfellows.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Psykologi og nyliberalisme / Psykologi som religionserstatning.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Psykologiens blinde flekker.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Psykologiens blinde flekker.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Sjelelig makeover. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(1), s 94- 95
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Slavemoral. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. 144(220), s 56- 57
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Strandet i Marokko. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (2-3), s 126- 126
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Ukritiske psykologer. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 193(30), s 19- 19
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Utkast til en forestilling. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (4), s 52- 53
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Vagn Lid i Minor. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (4), s 64- 65
Madsen, Ole Jacob & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012). Arbeidets nødvendighet: Samtale om Klaus Holzkamp. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. (8)
Meland, Eivind & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Møte med det hellige i klinisk praksis. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. 132, s 1252- 1254 . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.12.0125
Myrtveit, Aase Cathrine & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 07. januar). Psykologi er den nye religionen. [Radio]. NRK P2 Verdibørsen. Vis sammendrag
Psykologi er den nye religionen! Poenget med religion er å få oss til å føle oss vel og presten er blitt terapeut.
Nesse, Trygve Brurås & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 19. oktober). Flere unge med psykiske lidelser blir uføre. [Radio]. Radio Nova Opplysningen 99.3.
Schjødt, Bibi; Haave, Einar; Hansen, Fredrik & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Hvilke psykologer skal finnes i framtiden?. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 49(10), s 1001- 1002
Snoen, Jan Arild & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012). Synd i vår tidsalder. Minerva. ISSN 0805-7842. (4), s 47
Sæther, Jens Marius & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2012, 21. april). Pratesjuk. Dagsavisen.
Amdahl, Pernille & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 22. desember). Dameblader skifter fokus. [Radio]. NRK P2 Kulturnytt. Vis sammendrag
Damebladene våre har fått en terapeutisk vri den siste tiden. I studio: programleder Pernille Amdahl, Ole Jacob Madsen (Forsker, Universitetet i Bergen) og Torunn Pettersen (Redaktør Tara).
Andreassen, Kim & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 16. desember). Ukeblader selger selvfølelse. [Internett]. På Høyden.
Kraft, Nina & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 02. mai). -Du kan bli syk av hyperkapitalismen. NTL- magasinet.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 12. desember). Du har tatt Guds plass. Klassekampen.
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 09. februar). En generasjon i terapi. Klassekampen.
Lund, Astrid Borchgrevink & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 12. september). Skeptisk til selvhjelpsboom og psykologer. [Internett]. Nasjonalt senter for erfaringskompetanse innen psykisk helse.
Macdonald, Laila Sandvold & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 04. juli). Enquête: 5 om behandlingsbegrepet. Rus & Samfunn.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). ADHD - et samfunnsproblem?. Psykisk helse. ISSN 0805-5599. (5), s 39- 39
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Brautende Braut. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (3-4), s 138- 139 Vis sammendrag
Anmeldelse av Bondestudentar. Ei tragi-komisk klassereise, Det Norske Teateret, Oslo, 14. oktober 2011
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Critical Psychology in Norway.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Den terapeutiske kultur.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Den vidunderlige nye terapeutiske verden.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Det som ligger innenfor. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 43(22), s 22
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Digital dialog. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (1), s 48- 49
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Filosofisk praksis. Botemiddel eller symptom på «den terapeutiske kultur»?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Grense for psykologisering?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Kontrollen med psykologien. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 48(7), s 688- 689
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Kritisk psykologi - røtter og framtid.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Migrapolis fra scenekanten. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (3-4), s 142- 143 Vis sammendrag
Anmeldelse av Larache, Marokkanske drømmer - norsk virkelighet, Den norske opera & ballett, Oslo, 7.-11. oktober 2011
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psychology Oblivious to Psychology: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Psychology in Society.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologi og samfunn.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologi og samfunn.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologi og samfunn.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologiens blinde flekker.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologiens blindflekker.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Sinne i tide og utide. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 43(26), s 17
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Terapi for alt?.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). The Norwegian Church Service Reform 2004-2011: The last attempt of Christ? The therapeutic and the Christian culture revised.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). The Unfolding of the Therapeutic. The Cultural Influence of Psychology in Contemporary Society. Vis sammendrag
This PhD dissertation examines various theories in relation to the importance of psychology’s influence on Western culture in recent decades: the triumph of the therapeutic, the therapeutic ethos and the therapeutic culture. My interest for this topic stems from the acknowledgement that psychology as a science, a profession and a cultural artifact increasingly appears to exert an influence on ever new areas of Norwegian society. The purpose of the thesis has been to complement the Norwegian psychology profession’s self-understanding with a more complex picture of psychology, which, despite the important role it serves in today’s individualised culture and professionalised welfare state, may also have some unintended side effects. In four different studies I have chosen to particularly focus on the aspect of the cultural influence of psychology - more specifically on the notion of the therapeutic ethos/culture - as a specific cultural hegemony in which individuals come to make sense of their lives which has not previously been systematically studied or critically examined in a Norwegian societal context.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). The ethics of psychology in the age of the globalised therapeutic culture.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Ut i naturen. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. ISSN 1503-2310. (3-4), s 38- 40 Vis sammendrag
Anmeldelse av De Utvalgte Kunsten å bli tam, Black Box Oslo, 15. oktober 2011
Madsen, Ole Jacob & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2011). Utfordringen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 43(39), s 22
Norevik, Silje Stavrum & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 11. januar). -Selvhjelp kan virke sosialt bedøvende. Byavisen.
Nåvik, Margrete & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 27. februar). ADHD og Marshmallow-eksperimentet. [Radio]. NRK P1 Mellom himmel og jord. Vis sammendrag
Meditasjon mot prestasjonsangst, VM-prestens bønn for deltakere og publikum og økt medisinering mot ADHD i Norge, dette er blant temaene i søndagens sending, samtidig som vi får betraktninger rundt betydningen av ”å være seg selv”.
Simonsen, Marit & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 16. desember). Doktoren svarer. Morgenbladet.
Vetlesen, Arne Johan & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011). Psykologiens blindflekker. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 43(33), s 14- 15
Åmotsbakken, Tormod Kvithyld & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2011, 14. juli). Sjelopptatt. Stella.
Andreassen, Kim; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Øyen, Simen Andersen (2010, 10. august). Like naturlig som jordskjelv. [Internett]. På Høyden.
Andreassen, Kim; Madsen, Ole Jacob & Øyen, Simen Andersen (2010, 11. august). Tar markedet for gitt. [Internett]. forskning.no.
Dypvik, Astrid Sverresdotter & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2010, 03. desember). Jakta på sjølvkjensla. Dag og Tid.
Høstmælingen, Andreas & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2010). Ekspertene må tøyles!. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. 151(231), s 5- 5
Høstmælingen, Andreas & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2010). Flere eksperter ikke alltid bedre. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. 151(247), s 4- 4
Lillebø, Sandra & Madsen, Ole Jacob (2010, 04. desember). -Vi produserer tapere. Klassekampen.
Madsen, Ole Jacob (2010). Beskjæringen av virkeligheten. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 47(12), s 1132- 1133

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