# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nils-bejerot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:43:56.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nils-bejerot"
name: "Nils Bejerot"
slug: "nils-bejerot"
description: "Nils Johan Artur Bejerot was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist best known for his work on drug abuse and for coining the phrase Stockholm syndrome. Bejerot was one of the top drug abuse researchers in Sweden. His view that drug abuse was a criminal matter and that drug use should have severe penalties was highly influential in Sweden and in other countries. He believed that the cure for drug addiction was to make drugs unavailable and socially unacceptable. He also advocated the idea that drug abuse could transition from being a symptom to a disease in itself."
tagline: "Swedish psychiatrist (1921-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nils_Bejerot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1921-09-21"
deathDate: "1988-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.637224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nilsbejerot.se/om.htm"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "نيلز بيجيروت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nils Bejerot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نیلز بژرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot"
    title: "Nils Bejerot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot"
    title: "Nils Bejerot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot"
    title: "Nils Bejerot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81"
    title: "Бейерут, Нильс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Нилс Бејерот"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot"
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    title: "Нільс Беєрут"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump