In criminal trial proceedings two sets of experts have come to two different conclusions about Anders Behring Breivik's mental condition. One group apparently believes him to be psychotic and the other does not believe he is paranoid schizophrenic. Instead the one group of experts purports that Breivik has Asperger syndrome, Tourette syndrome, narcissistic personality disorder, and apparently other possible issues. Breivik has admitted to killing 77 people in July of 2011 in Oslo and the nearby island of Utoeya in Norway. According to the Daily Mail article "Asperger's support groups in Norway have attacked previous attempts to attribute Breivik's massacre to the condition, arguing that there is no evidence that Asperger's is associated with increased criminality or violence. " Read more about it at DailyMail.co.uk here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156530/Anders-Behring-Breivik-rare-forms-Aspergers-Tourette-s-syndromes-says-Norways-leading-psychiatrist.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Actually, the two groups of two experts each did not believe he had aspergers, but a fifth expert on aspergers witnessed this friday and suggested he had aspergers + tourettes + NPD. This fifth expert never interviewed Breivik, he based his suggestion on 7 days of observation in the courtroom and the 4 experts reports. This monday, tomorrow, the 4 experts(or atleast some of them) will enter the courtroom again. It will be interesting to see what they say about it.
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ReplyDeleteThe upcoming week will be very interesting. A child psychiatrist will also witness, sheding light on his childhood and if there were signs of Aspergers.
That makes a bit more sense than the disjointed bits of information that are described in what I've read. If you can post a link to some better sources that would be great.
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