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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. 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.