| BIOGRAPHY
Finn Skårderud grew up in Rendalen, Rena and Elverum in Østerdalen, in Southeast of
Norway.
In 1982 he graduated in medicine from the University in Oslo. He then specialised in psychiatry. His special field in all these years has been eating disorders, and he has become an internationally renowned expert in this area.
Today he has his own psychiatric private practice in Oslo. He also works as a psychiatrist at the Centre for elite sports, for the Norwegian Olympic Committee and the Athletic Federation. He is the editor of Psychic Health on the Internet site www.lommelegen.no.
He is a scientist affiliated with the Regional Centre for child- and adolescent psychiatry in Oslo. His chief field is eating disorders but he also participates in other fields. He has also taken part in a project on modern shame, presented in the book "Shame, Perspectives on Shame, Honour and Shamelessness in Modernity", edited by Trygve Wyller (2001).
Finn Skårderud is a non-fiction author. He has himself written and edited nine books, and contributed to more than thirty books. Best known is "Unrest. A Journey in the Modern Self" from 1998. It has sold more than eighty thousand copies in Norway, and has been translated into several languages.
From Christian Graugaard's review in the Danish newspaper Politiken:
A shrewd and beautiful contemporary analysis. Let me state it very clearly: "Unrest" is a thunder of a book, strange and fascinating, erudite and yet with a touch of the colibri's delicate flight ..... a magnificent achievement.
From Trond Berg Eriksen's review in Aftenposten:
An outstanding work of a scholarly man, a courageous professional who - by registering with a keen eye the convulsions, nooks and corners of our times - makes it a little easier for the rest of us to understand ourselves and the world around us.
He writes regularly for the major newspapers Dagbladet and Aftenposten in Norway and Politiken in Denmark. Finn Skårderud holds courses and gives lectures on a large scale, also for leaders in business and organisations.
He has also for many years been active as a film critic. In 1999 he published his book "Federico Fellini", a biographical essay on the great Italian film maker and on creativity. He has also experience from film and TV-productions.
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