Ørnulv ØdegÃ¥rd (12 April 1901 – 23 February 1986) was a Norwegian
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...
. He was the director of
Gaustad Hospital 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, 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
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