Roderick Orner: Psychiatric Disorders

Breivik Dept: Breivik, who has pleaded not guilty but admitted the killings, has said being labelled insane would be a fate worse than death, though his lawyer initially did just that, according to Vancouver Sun. "You expect with psychiatric disorders to see a level of distress and incoherence," said Roderick Orner, a Norwegian psychologist who specializes in traumatic stress and a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln and anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian on trial for the mass murder of 77 people in July, has puzzled mental health experts trying to decide one of the central questions in the case: whether he is sane or in touch with reality. So confusing is his case that two teams of court appointed psychiatrists reached vastly different conclusions about his mental state: one team found him psychotic while another said he was mentally capable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.