Are Holen (born 18 July 1945) is a Norwegian psychiatrist and psychologist, and professor of psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.^[1] He specializes on stress psychiatry, and has done scientific research on meditation.

Holen earned the cand.psychol. degree in psychology in 1972 and the cand.med. (MD) degree in 1978, and a dr.med. (PhD) in 1990. He is also a trained psychotherapist.

In 1966 he founded the non-profit organisation Acem International School of Meditation.^[2]

Writings

• "The North Sea Oil Rig Disaster." In International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. Edited by John P. Wilson and Beverley Raphael. New York: Plenum, 1993. 471–478.
• With Christian Moldjord and Lars Kristian Fossum. "Coping with Peacekeeping Stress." In The Psychology of the Peacekeeper: Lessons From the Field. Edited by Thomas W. Britt and Amy B. Adler. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 169–184.