Ørnulv Ødegård (12 April 1901 – 23 February 1983) was a Norwegian

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

. He was the director of

Gaustad Hospital Gaustad Hospital ( no, Gaustad sykehus) is a psychiatric hospital in the neighborhood of Gaustad in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1855, it is Norway's oldest purpose-built psychiatric hospital. It opened as the nation's first insane asylum designed ac ...

from 1938 to 1972. He was involved as an expert during the trial against Hamsun. He is known for his studies on women who fraternized with German soldiers during the

occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

, where he concluded that their level of intelligence was lower than average. He has also been criticized for the practice of lobotomizing of mental patients.

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1901 births 1986 deaths Physicians from Oslo Norwegian psychiatrists 20th-century Norwegian physicians {{norway-bio-stub