Autorenporträt
Kyösti Waris:
Kyösti Waris was born in Lahti 1946 and graduated from Lahti lyceum. He has completed his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) majoring in psychology and sociology. He is a social scientist, psychologist, sociologist and a health care professional. He specializes in mental health care, in work and organization psychology and in psychology of occupational health care. He is an expert of work-related issues and he has got a training of work mentor.The author has been working in health care for several years, among others in mental health offices. There his role as a psychologist was to assess clients' mental health and working capacity and to write psychologist's statements to the psychiatrists for the planning of clients' care and rehabilitation. Tasks included also individual and group therapy as well as the work of preventive mental health.
He has worked as a psychologist and a Senior Adviser for the National Board of Labor Protection, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Ministry of Labor. In the administration his duties included, among others, strategic plans for promoting people's mental wellbeing in work places (mental labor protection).
Schlagwörter
The purpose of life,the concept of man, society, science, human, fake man, robot, social norms, Nazism, self-esteem, free will, perceiving, personality, the concept of child, critics of science, mental health, ccupational health and safety, societal use of power, power politics, European Union, religion, universe, Mental disorders, self-care