Editing Nils Bejerot (section)

==Psychiatry==
In 1952–54, Bejerot served as assistant at the [[Karolinska Institute]] hygienic institution after finishing basic medical education at Karolinska Institute. In the same period he wrote his book against the violence in comic books.

In 1954, while serving as deputy social medical officer at the Child and Youth Welfare Board of the City of Stockholm, Bejerot became, by coincidence, the first to diagnose and report a case of juvenile intravenous drug abuse by any public authority in Europe.

In 1957, Bejerot received a medical degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. From 1957 to 1962, Bejerot was trained in psychiatry at the [[Södersjukhuset]] and the [[Saint Göran Hospital]] in Stockholm.

From 1958 onwards, Bejerot worked as consulting psychiatrist to the Stockholm Police Department, and from 1965 as consulting physician to the Stockholm Remand Prison. His patients were people in police custody, many of them local alcoholics or drug addicts. Later he became Research Fellow in drug dependence at the Swedish National Medical Research Council, and then a reader in Social Medicine at the Karolinska Institute.

In 1963, Bejerot studied epidemiology and medical statistics at the [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]], on a grant from the World Health Organization.<ref name="congre">[https://archive.org/stream/marihuanahashish00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  Marihuana-hashish epidemic and its impact on United States security: hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session [-Ninety-fourth Congress, first session&#93; .. (1974), page 170-]</ref>

In 1973, he served as a psychiatric advisor during the [[Norrmalmstorg robbery]], and coined the term ''[[Stockholm syndrome]]'' to refer to the way in which the hostages apparently become grateful to the hostage-takers and critical against the police's handling of the situation.<ref name=Bejerot1974/><ref>[http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/international/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?programid=2054&artikel=3254778&nyheter=1 Majsan Boström: The Stockholm Syndrome, Sveriges Radio International, 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723083641/http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054 |date=23 July 2009 }}</ref> The term has since become heavily used.

In 1975, Bejerot became an associate professor on a [[doctoral thesis]] about drug abuse and drug policy at the Karolinska Institute.<ref>Drug Abuse and Drug Policy. An epidemiological and methodological study of drug abuse of intravenous type in the Stockholm police arrest population 1965–1970 in relation to changes in drug policy. 277 s. Munksgaard, Köpenhamn, 1975.</ref> In 1979 Bejerot received an honorary title of professor, an honor that the Swedish government usually awards to only a few people a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nilsbejerot.se/om.htm|title = Nils Bejerot}}</ref>

His research covered such wide areas as the epidemiology of drug abuse, the dynamics of drug dependence and the anomalies of public welfare policy. Bejerot gave an extensive number of lectures in many parts of Sweden. For 30 years he lobbied intensively for [[zero tolerance]],<ref group=Note name=zero>Even though Bejerot was criticizing concepts that are today known under the umbrella "harm reduction" and promoting criminal control projects that would today be known as "zero tolerance", he did not use those terms himself.</ref> including possession and use of cannabis. He published about 600 papers and debate articles in different media, and published more than 10 books about the subject. In total he had about 100,000 participants of his 2-day courses.<ref>[http://nilsbejerot.se/film2_56.wmv Nils Bejerot. Video from a lecture about addition.]</ref> For many years he held lectures at ‘’Polishögskolan’’ (The Swedish Police College) about drug abuse, mental problems and negotiation skills. He was teacher for almost every Swedish police officer, which gave him the epithet "polisdoktorn" (The police doctor).<ref name="minnesbok" /><ref name="bejerh" />