Åsmund Borgen Gjerde
asmundbgjerde.bsky.social
Åsmund Borgen Gjerde
@asmundbgjerde.bsky.social
Postdoc @UiB. Supports Ukraine and neurodiversity. Working on third monograph, about sexual radicalism in post-WWII Western Europe and North America, titled Dialectic of Instincts: Civilizational Breakdown, Queer Liberation and the Origins of 1968
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T4 was still a recent memory when Lovaas began his work, and recent research has found that he and his whole family were Nazi collaborators in WW2. So conversion therapy is just Nazi shit. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway - Åsmund Borgen Gjerde, 2025
Ole Ivar Lovaas – a Norwegian-born professor of psychology at UCLA – is considered a pioneer in the development of interventions for autistic children based on ...
journals.sagepub.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
...where, despite going to great lengths to find Norwegian primary sources about the Lovaas family and Ole Ivar Lovaas´ youth, they failed to discover that the entire family were Nazis and that young Ole Ivar was a local leader of the Nazi youth movement. doi.org/10.1177/0952...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Svein Eikeseth, the project leader, has devoted his whole career to proving Lovaas was right. In 2016. He co-wrote this hagiographic article about Lovaas´ life: oda.oslomet.no/oda-xmlui/bi...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM