Kirjoittaja Pertti Luukkonen » 01.04.2010 18:07
ERKKI JUHANI RUTANEN
Erkki Rutanen was born (1932) and brought in Helsinki, learning Finnish and Swedish as his native tongues, and German as his first foreign languages. At the Helsinki Real-Lyceum he majored in mathematics and science which he continued to study at the Helsinki University. He finally graduated from there, however, in psychology and phonetics in 1958 after a in the Finnish Navy and promotion to commissioned officer on the reserve. His writing career began in 1952 as a chess-columnist on "Uusi Suomi" and as a chess-correspondent for Agence France Presse during the Chess Olympiad in Helsinki, having participated in the Student Team World Championship Tournament in Liperpool, UK, when Finland came first and Great Britain second. For some years he worked at night as an assistant to the managing editor of "Uusi Suomi" and during the day as an assistant clinical psychologist at Helsinki University Clinics on Neurology and Psychiatry (Lapinlahti Hospital), where he became Psychologist-in-Chief in 1965. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Information Gazette of the Psychiatric Clinic, and Managing Editor of the scientific publications, especially "Psychiatria Fennica", which post he held when he left the clinics in 1976 to concentrate on his private practice as psychodiagnostician and psychotherapist, and on his writing and research. From 1972 – 73 he acted as associate professor of general and clinical psychology at Helsinki University. As well as translations of poetry, short stories, and scientific books from Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, and English into Finnish, he has contributed scientific articles, mainly in English, to "Psychiatria Fennica", and has written a number of books in Finnish including "Unet ja uskomukset" (1963), dealing with the psychodynamics of sleeping, dreaming, and of beliefs, and "Psykologia" 1966, an introduction to general and clinical psychology, of which over 100 000 copies have been sold. The reference book of sexuality, "Sukupuolielämän tietokirja" (1965), co-authored with his psychologist wife (Mirja Tuulikki Rutanen, b. Paavola 1929 - 2008), a gynaecologist, and a psychiatrist, was translated into Estonian by Heino Mikk and published in 1974 as "Avameeselt abielust, Lühendatud väljaanne". This was the first book to be published in the Soviet Union which explains the perversions formerly deemed non-existent in socialist countries. He has continued his research with his single subject methods on changes with and without brain damage, and with and without psychotherapy, accumalating evidence on the effects of psychotherapy in cases of neurologic, psychiatric, psychosomatic, and somatic disease, with follow-up periods of two decades, in several hundred of subjects, and with several susequent re-testing. His findings on the disinhibition of the cerebrum after cerebellar damage, obtained 1958 – 59, have been corroborated by research with cerebellar electrodes two decades later. Dr. Rutanen is a member of various professional associations and his hobbies are sailing, chess, and philosophy.
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