Richard Alapack, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Power fades;
money vanishes; fame is fi ckle; ambition is foolish; only love endures.
Most importantly, therefore, Richard is father to three splendid
children, Nicole, Richard and Orion, and the grandfather of two bright
and beautiful girls, Sophie and Olivia.
His principal disciplinary areas are love and death approached
from existential, phenomenological, hermeneutic and psychoanalytic
points of view. His original research includes such topics as first
love, first kiss, the outlaw relationship, and flirting in cyberspace. A
stint as clinical-community director of the Seward Life Action Council in Seward, Alaska, expanded
love matters to included death-themes; and a concurrent visiting
lectureship at the University of Pretoria - when Apartheid ended in
South Africa - triggered ongoing teaching and research both on natural
and manmade disasters and on global political themes. Currently, he also
researching the phenomena that cluster around peace: humiliation,
violence, revenge and their cures: forgiveness, compassion, mercy.
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