Pietikäinen, Petteri
Title
Professori
Unit
History of Ideas and Science
Fields of expertise
Intellectual history, history of the human sciences, history of mental health
Fields of science
615 History and archaeology
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Email
petteri.pietikainen@oulu.fi
Personal links
Description of activity
Homepage is here: https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/petteri-pietikainen
Petteri Pietikäinen is Professor of the History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include history of madness and mental health; history of evolutionary theories; history of Utopian thought; and relations between the human sciences and society. He has written six books, edited six books and published about 80 articles. His major publications in English include Alchemists of Human Nature: Psychological Utopianism in Gross, Jung, Reich and Fromm (Pickering & Chatto, 2007), Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden (Brill, 2007), and Madness: A History (Routledge 2015).