Ulrik Fredrik Malt

Who is Ulrik Fredrik Malt?

Ulrik Fredrik Malt is a Norwegian psychiatrist. He is a consultant psychiatrist at Oslo University Hospital, Director of the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, and Professor II at the University of Oslo.

He took his examen artium in 1965 and studied medicine at the universities of Münster and Oslo, graduating as cand.med. in 1973. He became a specialist in psychiatry in 1987 and got his dr.med. degree also in 1987. He has written several books, and was responsible for all articles on psychiatry and psychology in the encyclopedia Store norske leksikon.

In 2012, he testified as an expert witness in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik. According to Malt, Breivik suffers from Asperger syndrome, Tourette syndrome, narcissistic personality disorder and possibly paranoid psychosis.