Nils-Göran Areskoug

Nils-Göran Areskoug (born Sundin on 18 May 1951, Växjö, Sweden), is a Swedish physician, musicologist, composer, author and interdisciplinary scholar. With five academic degrees (MD PhD MBA MFA BA) he is Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Research at , Sweden (2009), and Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (1996).

Areskoug trained as a medical doctor, and was certified as cantor and organist at the Lund Cathedral in 1968. Early music teachers in Växjö included Nils Andersson, Ture Olsson, Janis Ozolins, Sylvia Mang-Borenberg, and Ladis and Boiana Müller. He studied musicology with and literature with at (from 1970), was supervised in his doctoral studies by at Uppsala University (1974) and mentored by at . As a pianist he studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with in 1969 and as a conductor with Sergiu Celibidache, in Mainz, Stuttgart and Munich, from 1978 to 1995. As a composer Areskoug attended seminars with mentors such as Olivier Messiaen in Paris 1973, and György Ligeti in Stockholm, during the 1970s. He studied philosophy and aesthetics in Lund, Uppsala and, at the doctoral level, at University of Lausanne (UNIL), until 1993.

After early essays in , Areskoug worked as a cultural critic for Svenska Dagbladet, 1977–1980, and as an academic teacher. Following supervision by leadership philosopher Peter Koestenbaum, Areskoug served, in 1986, as the first director of Kronoberg County Music Foundation (Stiftelsen Musik i Kronoberg), in Växjö. The popular success of his 1984 book on music led to his election as a member of the .

After medical studies at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Areskoug took up the philosophy of science at the intersection between neuroscience and psychoanalysis (and music psychotherapy) conducting dialogues with colleagues such as Dr. med. in Växjö, Carl Lesche and Bertil Edgardh in Stockholm and, later, Adam Zweig, Carl Rudolf Pfaltz, and in Zürich and Basel. Areskoug's 1988 Cand. Med. Thesis at Lund University dealt with the controversy surrounding Adolf Grünbaum's critique of psychoanalysis. It was approved by Professors Lars Janzon, Bengt Scherstén and Germund Hesslow, Lund University Faculty of Medicine, at a public hearing on 1 January 1989 in the Institute of Social Medicine, Malmö University Hospital (MAS), with acclaims:

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