The Moonlight Doctor

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<p><b>Jaan Valsiner,</b><i> </i>born in Tallinn, Estonia, is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, <b><i>Culture & Psychology</i></b> (since 1995) and Editor-In-Chief, <b><i>Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science</i></b> (Springer, since 2007). After working for over three decades in USA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Clark University, he accepted in 2013 the position of <b>Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology</b> at Aalborg University, Denmark, in collaboration with University of Luxembourg and Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien in Austria and in Berlin. He focuses on theoretical innovation, with monographs <b><i>The Guided Mind</i></b> (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998), <b><i>Culture in Minds and Societies </i></b>(New Delhi: Sage, 2007), <b><i>Ornamented Lives</i></b> (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers, 2018) and <b><i>Sensuality in Human Living</i></b> (Springer, 2020). He has recently published a major theoretical treatise <b><i>General Human Psychology</i></b> (Springer, 2021) that would synthesize William Stern¿s personology with his Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics.</p> <p>Jaan Valsiner has been awarded major research prizes in Europe: the <b><i>Alexander von Humboldt Prize</i></b> of 1995 in Germany, and the <b><i>Hans-Kilian-Preis </i></b>of 2017. As part of his credo for building psychology on an international and trans-cultural basis, he has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Since 2017 he is a <b><i>Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences</i></b>.<b></b></p>

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