Ola Raknes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian psychologist
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1887
Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Date of Death: 28-Jan-1975
Profession: writer, psychologist, translator, contributing editor, journalist, anthropologist, philosopher, philologist, literary historian, linguist, lexicographer
Nationality: Norway
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ola Raknes
- Ola Raknes (17 January 1887 – 28 January 1975) was a Norwegian psychologist, philologist and non-fiction writer.
- Born in Bergen, Norway, he was internationally known as a psychoanalyst in the Reichian tradition.
- He has been described as someone who spent his entire life working with the conveying of ideas through many languages and between different epistemological systems of reference, science and religion (Dannevig, 1975).
- For large portions of his life he was actively contributing to the public discourse in Norway.
- He has also been credited for his contributions to strengthening and enriching the Nynorsk language and its use in the public sphere. Raknes was known as a thorough philologist and a controversial therapist.
- Internationally he was known as one of Wilhelm Reich's closest students and defenders.
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