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Strong psychiatrist's defense of own conclusion that ABB is"judicially insane"
While I personally do NOT share forensic psycjiatrist Torgeir Husby's contested conclusion that ABB was "judicially insane", his explanation on Thursday of his views showed that he had solid reasons (degree "solid" that can be epected in the psychiatry field) for his conclusions.
His main points were:
a) The mother's testimony, that ABBs personality deteriorated/changed severely from his re-moving into his childhood home from 2006, and
b) That it to Husby (and to his colleague Sørheim) was, in their convewrsations with Breivik, that he figured himself in an extreme degree to be The Great Saviour, i.e, thar Breivik thought himself had some "holy duty" to perform through his massacres.
Furthermore, Husby was clear that he certainly was not the ignoramus of political extremism he has been ridiculed as, but that it seemed to him that Breivik's political extremism was less of a determinant of his actions than Breiviks grossly inflated, and reality-absent self-image and sadistic inclinations.The "jury is still out" whether ABB is to be declared sane or insane, but, at least, Husby has shown himself as a professional, and I do no longer entertain the speculation that he was prompted to his conclusion concerning ABBs judicial sanity on basis of maximizing the probability that ABB could be held incarcerated for life by getting him declared insane.
Husby is an honest hard-working psychiatrist, and his assessment of ABB cannot be dismissed easily,
While I personally do NOT share forensic psycjiatrist Torgeir Husby's contested conclusion that ABB was "judicially insane", his explanation on Thursday of his views showed that he had solid reasons (degree "solid" that can be epected in the psychiatry field) for his conclusions.
His main points were:
a) The mother's testimony, that ABBs personality deteriorated/changed severely from his re-moving into his childhood home from 2006, and
b) That it to Husby (and to his colleague Sørheim) was, in their convewrsations with Breivik, that he figured himself in an extreme degree to be The Great Saviour, i.e, thar Breivik thought himself had some "holy duty" to perform through his massacres.
Furthermore, Husby was clear that he certainly was not the ignoramus of political extremism he has been ridiculed as, but that it seemed to him that Breivik's political extremism was less of a determinant of his actions than Breiviks grossly inflated, and reality-absent self-image and sadistic inclinations.The "jury is still out" whether ABB is to be declared sane or insane, but, at least, Husby has shown himself as a professional, and I do no longer entertain the speculation that he was prompted to his conclusion concerning ABBs judicial sanity on basis of maximizing the probability that ABB could be held incarcerated for life by getting him declared insane.
Husby is an honest hard-working psychiatrist, and his assessment of ABB cannot be dismissed easily,