'Answer hatred with love': how Norway tried to cope with the horror of Anders Breivik | World news | The Observer
The most difficult time came in November when the psychiatrists assessing Breivik declared that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who could not be held responsible for his actions.
Dr Michael Stone, an expert on forensic psychiatry at Columbia University, New York, said it was a conclusion no psychiatrist in the US would have reached. "I have the impression that 'insane' in Scandinavia is more or less synonymous with 'crazy', which casts a wider net than 'insane' as a legal term," he said. "Breivik, as far as I can put together, is of a paranoid and narcissistic personality configuration, like most terrorists."
A second assessment, commissioned by the court at the request of the victims' lawyers, concluded last week that Breivik was sane, leaving the final decision up to the judges.
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