Henrik Fexeus (born 29 September 1971) is a Swedish
mentalist
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, author and TV-host. Since 2005 he is a frequent guest, as expert on
body language
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and
non-verbal communication
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, in television and newspapers including for
Expressen
''Expressen'' (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden, the other being '' Aftonbladet''. ''Expressen'' was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "''Expressen'' to your rescue".
...
at the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria's wedding and for
Aftonbladet
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History and profile
The newspaper was founded by Lars Johan H ...
during the US
SuperTuesday 2016.
He competes as a celebrity dancer in
Let's Dance 2022
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Contestants
Marie Mandelmann became the ...
, which is broadcast by
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.
Early life and education
Henrik Fexeus was born in
Ărebro
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, Sweden and grew up in
Vallentuna
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, where he moved seven years old.
Henrik has a BA in Philosophy from
Stockholm University
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and has worked in
communication
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s and marketing.
Author
Fexeus has written seven books on practical
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
and influence. His first book, ''The art of reading minds,'' was released in 2007 by Forum Bokförlag. In 2010, it received the Pocket Platinum sales award. His second book, ''When you do what I want'', was released in 2008 and received in 2010 the Pocket Gold award.
As of 2019, his books have been translated into over 30 languages, including Chinese,
Romanian
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**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
, Russian, Serbian, Japanese and
Portuguese
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. Fexeus books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Since 2019 he is published by
St. Martin's Press
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in USA and by
Hodder & Stoughton
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History
Early history
The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs ...
in the UK.
The first edition of the book ''The power game'' had on its cover a picture of Henrik with devil horns, but the image allegedly offended people outside Sweden, so the picture was changed to Henrik with halo and angel wings.
In 2015 Henrik Fexeus released the board game ''The power struggle â a manipulative family game.'' The game was based on psychological techniques that Fexeus had written about in previous books and was designed by Henrik Fexeus and Per Nystedt. ''The power struggle'' was issued by the game publisher Tactic.
2017 saw Fexeus' debut as a fiction writer, with the urban fantasy thriller ''The Lost: The Last Illusion Book One''.
2019 marked his first collaboration with another writer, with the book ''RELOAD'', co-written by Catharina Edlund.
Bibliography
* 2007 â Konsten Att LĂ€sa Tankar (The Art of Reading Minds: How to understand and influence others without them noticing), Stockholm, Forum, 2007.
* 2008 â NĂ€r Du Gör Som Jag Vill (When you do what I want: A book on influence), Stockholm, Forum, 2008.
* 2009 â Alla FĂ„r Ligga (Everybody gets some: Strategies in the art of seduction for the modern gentleman and woman), Stockholm, Forum, 2009.
* 2011 â Konsten att fĂ„ Mentala Superkrafter (The Art of getting Mental Super Powers: Be smarter, happier and find the meaning of life without any effort (almost)), Stockholm, Forum, 2011.
* 2012 â Bli Kreativ â pĂ„ 1 timme (Get Creative â in 1 hour), Stockholm, Forum, 2012.
* 2012 â Ăka Din Sociala Kompetens â pĂ„ 1 timme (Boost your Social Skills â in 1 hour), Stockholm, Forum, 2012.
* 2013 â Maktspelet (The Power Game: Sympathetic techniques to take control of everything), Stockholm, Forum, 2013.
* 2015 â Maktkampen (The Power Struggle â a manipulative family game), Stockholm, Tactic, 2015
* 2017 â De Förlorade: Den sista illusionen, bok ett (The Lost: The Last Illusion, book one), Stockholm, RabĂ©n 6 Sjögren, 2017.
*2017 â FingertoppskĂ€nsla: En nödvĂ€ndig manual i social kompetens (Finesse: A manual in social skills), Forum, 2017.
*2018 â De IhĂ„liga: Den sista illusionen, bok tvĂ„ (The Hollow; The Last Illusion, book two), Stockholm, RabĂ©n & Sjögren, 2018.
*2019 â Konsten att lĂ€sa tankar: Omarbetad och utökad (The Art of Reading Minds: Expanded and Revised), Stockholm, Forum, 2019.
*2019 â RELOAD: SĂ„ blir du Ă„terhĂ€mtningssmart (Reload), Stockholm, Forum, 2019.
*2019 â De Första: Den sista illusionen, bok tre (The First: The Last Illusion, book three), Stockholm, RabĂ©n & Sjögren, 2019.
The TV host
Fexeus television appearances often deal with the same psychological topics as his books. He has appeared in both his own programs and already established program formats.
* In 2007â2009 Fexeus wrote and performed the 16 episode TV special ''Mind Storm'', which aired on Swedish Television. This was his first major public appearance (along with the book ''The art of reading minds'' the same year). In ''Mind Storm'', Henrik performed psychological experiments on people who were often not aware that they were participating in an experiment. These experiments formed the basis for a further discussion of human behavior with different psychological experts. Reporter in ''Mind Storm'' was Charles Franz. ''Mind Storm'' has also been shown in
Norway
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and
Finland
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and was one of the programs that represented SVT at the television Fair INPUT in
Johannesburg
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in 2008.
* In 2010 Henrik Fexeus led seven episodes of the discussion program ''Theme:'' at the Knowledge Channel, also for
SVT's behalf.''Theme:'' discussed such diverse topics as entrepreneurship,
dyslexia
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and cancer.
* In 2011 Fexeus was a jury member on ''Sweden's Got Talent'' on
TV4 TV4 or TV 4 may refer to:
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**TV4 Group, owners of the Swedish television station
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, along with
Bert Karlsson
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As the owner and manager of the rec ...
and
Charlotte Perrelli
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. Fexeus task was to assess the participants' body language and stage presence.
* In 2013 Fexeus hosted the video blog ''Headquarters,'' along with journalist Susanne Delastacia. ''Headquarters'' ran for 13 episodes and produced by United Screens.
* In 2014 Henrik Fexeus was back at SVT with the program ''Love Code.'' The format was developed by Endemol and was met with some criticism when it was broadcast.
* During Almedalsveckan 2014, Fexeus was the body language expert for TV4 and P4 with
Lotta Bromé
Charlotta "Lotta" Bromé (born 18 December 1964) is a Swedish radio and television presenter and host. She has been a Christmas Eve host at SVT, won the show ''PÄ spÄret'' and hosted various shows for Sveriges Radio.
Early life
Bromé was bo ...
. In TV4
Nyhetsmorgon
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**TV4 Group, owners of the ...
was part of a panel that included
Marcus Oscarsson and
Elaine EksvÀrd, where his job was to review the political party leaders' body language and nonverbal communication during their interviews. In P4 he was similarly analyzing the party leaders, based on their public speeches.
* Henrik Fexeus continued to be a part of TV4 Nyhetsmorgon's election coverage until the elections in 2014, where he examined the party leaders' body language in the final debates. His collaboration with Nyhetsmorgon continued in 2014 to the spring of 2015, where he presented weekly psychological experiments to demonstrate human behaviour.
* Between February 2015 and January 2017, Henrik Fexeus was a distinguished panel member of the radio show ''Dilemma'', broadcast by Mix Megapol every Saturday and Sunday. ''Dilemma'' was led by television profile Anders S Nilsson and presenteds problems submitted for the panel to resolve. In addition to Henrik, the most common panelists were Josefin Crafoord and Thomas JĂ€rvheden, but Claes Malmberg, Martin Timell and Tobias Karlsson has also visited the program.
* In 2016, Henrik analysed the body language of the US presidential candidates during the campaign period for Aftonbladet TV.
*Henrik hosted the podcast "Kan SjĂ€lv: En podcast om varför vi Ă€r som vi Ă€r" ("By myself: A podcast about why we are the way we are") 2017â2018, produced by NENT media group, in 30 episodes.
*During the Swedish election of 2018, Henrik analysed the non-verbal communication of the Swedish political party leaders for SVT's morning news show MorgonStudion.
The lecturer
Since 2005, Henrik Fexeus gives talks based on his books. His lectures deal with non-verbal communication, relationship-building, and "mental super powers". Henrik lectures in Swedish and English all over the world, e.g. in Norway, Mexico, Finland and Spain. His presentations are most often targeted towards corporations and organisations, but in 2018â2019 Henrik toured the theatres in Sweden with his full-evening talk "Your Social Super Powers".
The mentalist
Fexeus is an entertainer within the magic discipline of
mentalism
Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances may appear to include hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precognition ...
. Mentalism uses techniques from psychology, magic and theater to create the illusion of a supernatural ability of mind reading or influence. Other famous mentalists are
Uri Geller
Uri Geller ( ; he, ŚŚŚšŚ ŚŚŚš; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other ill ...
and
Derren Brown
Derren Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English mentalist, illusionist, painter, and author. He began performing in 1992, making his television debut with ''Derren Brown: Mind Control'' in 2000, and has since produced several more shows fo ...
. In 2009 Henrik Fexeus was presented with the international award ''The Dunninger Award'' from the organization "Psychic Entertainers Association", an award which in 2006 went to the aforementioned Derren Brown and 2010 to Uri Geller. Henrik Fexeus has performed four large stage shows. The last three also become nationwide tours in Seden. To the show BOX (2015â2016), Henrik Fexeus also produced two hours of original music.
Circus of the Mind was produced as DVD by Cinematic Vision in 2011. In Your Head was released on DVD by NjutaFilms in 2013.
* Mind Melt (2004) Written and directed by Henrik Fexeus. Premiere at Dieselverkstaden, Nacka.
* Circus of the Mind (2009â2011) Written by Henrik Fexeus, directed by Henrik Fexeus and Henrik Hjelt. Premiere at GĂ€vle Theatre.
* In Your Head (2012â2013) Written by Henrik Fexeus, directed by Peder Bjurman. Premiere at Rival, Stockholm.
* BOX (2015â2016) Written by Henrik Fexeus and Morgan Alling, directed by Morgan Alling. Music Henrik Fexeus. Premiere at the Maxim Theatre in Stockholm.
Personal life
Fexeus lives in Stockholm and his family consists of his partner and three children.
He has two children from a previous marriage with interior blogger Emma Fexeus, and is since 2018 married to Linda Ingelman.
References
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1971 births
Living people
Swedish television personalities