Finn Skårderud
Finn Skårderud is a Norwegian former psychiatrist who was struck off the medical register by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision due to a widespread pattern of professional misconduct in 2023. As such he is no longer a medical doctor or psychiatrist. In 2024 he pled guilty to fraud.
Career
He once led a psychotherapy project at Oslo University Hospital, ran a private practice and was the psychiatrist for the Norwegian Olympic Committee. He was a professor at the Department of Special Needs Education at the University of Oslo and at Lillehammer University College. He was also an author and film, art and literature critic, and has produced numerous scientific papers, books and book chapters within the fields of psychiatry, psychology, culture, literature and film, both fiction and non-fiction.Following an investigation into professional misconduct he was struck off the medical register by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision in 2023.