Nils-Görans barn och barnbarn har under många år oberättigat avvisat kontakt med sin mångkunniga pappa/morfar.

Det var många svåra år av längtan, sorg och hopp, liksom för alla familjemedlemmar som avskiljs från varandra därför att någon vill att kontakten ska brytas.

Vi kunde inte beskriva det oberättigade avskiljandet i vår nekrolog, som publicerades i DN och i SvD.:

”Nils-Göran Areskoug född Sundin 18 maj 1951 – 10 juni 2025

Nils-Göran med rötter i Växjö, dog efter en tids sjukdom, far till en son och en dotter med ett barnbarn. Han har två bröder i livet. Han tågluffade flera gånger genom
Europa, där han också studerade vid flera lärosäten. Fortlöpande höll han sig uppdaterad om den främsta vetenskapen genom att delta på de årliga Nobelsymposierna.
Han förordnades till biträdande professor i tvärvetenskapliga studier vid Strömstad akademi
den 14 oktober 2009. Nils-Göran var en ovanligt mångbegåvad, kreativ och godhjärtad människa, verksam som skribent, forskare och tonsättare. Han sjöng i kör, spelade cello och piano och lärde sig komposition som barn. Som tonåring gick han sommarkurser i piano för Hans Leygraf i Salzburg. Han var förste chef för Musik i Kronoberg, räddade Musica Vitae och gav ut den första skriftserien på svenska om musiktolkning. Han hade en läkarexamen från Lund och en doktorsexamen i musikvetenskap från Jyväskylä universitet 1994.
Nils-Göran inviterades att föreläsa vid Harvard och på uppdrag av Stockholms stift tonsatte
Nils-Göran Dag Hammarskjölds fredssymfoni ur ”Vägmärken,” som han framförde bl a i
Storkyrkan och på en konferens i Stockholm 2018 för barns mänskliga rätt till sina familjenätverk.
Nils-Göran hade bland andra dirigenten Sergiu Celibidache som mentor och vän.

“Han formade min syn på musik och öppnade dörrar till ett fördjupat filosofiskt studium,” (Smålandsposten 26/9 2015). Nils-Görans bok från 1982 ”Bilder ur musikens historia” med undertiteln ”Romantiken och vår tid” är en spännande bok med underfundig livsvisdom i plötsliga djupdykningar, fantastiska bilder från en mängd tidsåldrar, och en mängd noter. Nils-Göran frågar i förordet vem hans bok vänder sig till. Och svarar själv ”Till alla som vänder sig till den.”

En fin och godhjärtad vän, samt en nyfiken, klok och kämpande människa, har lämnat oss i stor sorg och saknad.

Lena Hellblom Sjögren och Anna Reinedahl”

År 2013 skrev Nils-Göran en artikel på sin blog om behovet av ett kompetenscenter för att skydda barn mot det våld det innebär att grundlöst avskilja ett barn från en tidigare älskad förälder och påverka barn att själv tro att det är barnets vilja att avvisa kontakt med denna förälder, det som kallas föräldraalienation – och som den 1 januari 2025 gjorts obligatooriskt att beaktal i dansk familjelagstiftning.

Big Changes Needed In Nordic Family Policy

May 27, 2013 Nils-Göran Areskoug

Specialist Competence Center for Families and Children Needed After Alarming Report on Children Deprived of a Parent.

The security of due process rights for adults has come under question in recent years in public debate. Without doubt there are serious deficiencies in the safeguarding of the legal rights of children and young people, who are not themselves in a position to secure their entitlements. In parental alienation the child’s right to family life is violated by one of the parents who turn the legal system’s shortcomings to their own personal advantage. Responsibility for systemic failures is shared equally between society’s legal and social authorities. Ultimately, responsibility lies with the executive for insufficient direction to legislators. This urgent problem, which strikes one and a half percent of the population (the same proportion as autism), demands new approaches for the protection of children and families.

In a new book on children subjected to psychological abuse in connection with divorces with custody and visitation disputes, forensic psychologist Lena Hellblom Sjögren reveals serious systemic errors within both legal praxis and social services. Her conclusion is that a completely new infrastructure is needed in order to come to terms with the problem. She shows that in essence children are totally unprotected against a parent who with cunning and ruthless manipulation wins social workers over to their side in a relentless campaign to manoeuvre an inconvenient ex-partner out of the child’s life. Such parents are successful “child stealers”, who skilfully camouflage their shortcomings as caring parents and have judge and social worker wrapped around their little finger. Recent neuroscience lends support to the idea that empathy disorder and malignant narcissism are part of the profile of such alienators.

Lena Hellblom Sjögren gives an overview of this societal scourge in her book Barnets rätt till familjeliv (The child’s right to family life), in the form of 25 case studies. What all these cases have in common is that an unjustified rupture of the child’s contact with one of the parents occurs through undue influence upon the child, whose close relation to “the other” parent is gradually broken down. This is deeply harmful for the child’s psychological and social development. Nor is the problem simply a matter of the immediate protagonists – a mother who influences her child to distance themselves from the father through vilification and false pretexts for different forms of obstructive behavior (for example denying visitation rights or abduction) or – with reversed parental roles – a father who obstructs and destroys the mother’s contact with her child. Grandparents, the extended family, and the wider social circle of the alienated parent all lose contact with the affected child, and the child loses out on the support from one parent’s family network while they are growing up.

The roots of the problem run deep. Inadequately trained professional groups within the social and criminal inquiry systems maintain, out of bureaucratic convenience or for other reasons of self-interest, a “market” for their dubious management of young people’s fates. We have acquired an incompetent inquiry culture which is uncontrolled, deeply harmful and moreover a burden on public finances. In practice it limits both the child’s right to unimpaired psychosocial health and development and families’ chances of establishing and maintaining the harmonious life together which the young so desperately need in order to successfully integrate into society later on.

What is the solution to this menacing legal crisis? Hellblom Sjögren suggests a thorough system change in order to bring the Swedish legal apparatus into line with the conventions on human rights which Sweden has pledged to follow. In her foreword she emphasises three proposals in particular:

Hellblom Sjögren’s vision is for a thorough-going program of reform: society shall respect children as fully-entitled citizens and put a stop to public connivance in psychosocial child abuse of the type that has been shown to occur in the present system:

• We must unite on a common definition of the child’s best as the dominant principle, valid in all bodies within the legal and social welfare systems.

• Constitutional demands for objectivity and impartiality in the exercise of public authority must be respected and their observance monitored.

• A family law system shall put the child first and not be based on the interests of the conflicting parties.

• A social services law should not be a framework law allowing loose interpretations – and room for arbitrary assessments in individual case workers’ hands must be limited.

• Case workers’ immunity and “infallibility” is by definition dangerous to society and must be circumscribed by restrictions – and individual responsibility for civil servants needs to be reintroduced.

• Requirements for methods of source criticism and the introduction of criteria based on empirically-validated research findings must replace the present power-based administration and its incompetent culture of arbitrariness.

• Adequate methods for harm prevention and assessment of harm risk must be developed and implemented as basic requirements in cases involving children.

• Effective penalties for the violation of children’s rights must be introduced.

Society should respond to an increase in the number of cases of parental alienation with an organisation for coordinated efforts in legal and social problem solving. A proposal has been submitted to the Swedish government advocating a Nordic specialist competence and treatment center for children and families damaged by divorces, with a leading role in the integration of the knowledge necessary for the application and development in clinical praxis of existing research, training, inquiry, and intervention.

Such a social investment would be cost-saving. Moreover, the proposal corresponds well with the humanitarian values embraced by all of the democratic parties (as well as harmonizing with the convention on children’s rights).

Since the situation is broadly similar in the neighboring Nordic countries, a common Nordic initiative would be advantageous – an arena which ensures the basic provision of specialist competence – something which is still missing in this vital area of social responsibility.

All the relevant theoretical and practical knowledge on children would be collected there and made ready for implementation. This demands a much-needed arena for interdisciplinary dialogue and greater integration of knowledge between the relevant professional groups.

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Nils-Göran Areskoug

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Nils-Göran Areskoug (Sundin, 1951) is a Swedish medical doctor, composer and interdisciplinary scholar. Fellow of Strömstad akademi, and Associate Professor in Musicology at Jyväskylä University, Finland. KTH Profile https://www.kth.se/profile/ngar/ ETH e-collection http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/list/author?author=Areskoug%2C+Nils-G%C3%B6ran Project Syndicate http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/nils-g-ran-areskoug Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-G%C3%B6ran_Areskoug

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Systematic Musicology

Music Education

Neuropsychiatry

Music Performance

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August 1997 – June 1998

BI Norwegian Business School

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Business Administration and Economics (Strategic Leadership and Industrial Organization)

January 1990 – August 1994

University of Jyväskylä

Field of study

Musicology

August 1986 – January 1997

Lund University

Field of study

Medicine

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”Fördomsfull rättsröta” – Kommentarer till Ledare i Dagens Nyheter

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Apr 2015

Nils-Göran Areskoug

Three comments on editorial leading article (daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm) on problems and roots of corruption of the system of justice in Sweden, published on April 24, 25 and 26. Online access: http://www.dn.se/ledare/huvudledare/fordomsfull-rattsrota/ (under ”Kommentarer”)

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