Evelin Lindner

Evelin Gerda Lindner, born on 13 May 1954, is a German-Norwegian medical doctor, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar and author. She trained first as a physician and as a clinical psychologist and holds doctorates in both psychological medicine and social psychology. She is best known for her theory of humiliation, and her research centres on human dignity, with the view that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She founded the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network. Born in Germany, she is now mainly based in Norway, where she has lived in part since 1977, and she has also lived in several other countries, including Egypt for most of the 1980s. She is an advocate of global citizenship.