Nils Bejerot

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Nils Bejerot (Stockholm, September 21, 1921 – November 29, 1988) was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist, best known for several things:

His role as a psychiatric advisor during the Norrmalmstorg robbery and coinage of the term Stockholm syndrome to refer to the way a hostage reacts in some situations.
His strong opposition against any legalization or prescription programmes for narcotic drugs, instead advocating zero tolerance.
His strong opposition against the violence in comic books, which was the subject of his book, Barn, serie, samhälle (children, comics, society), itself largely an adaptation of Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent.

Some people consider Bejerot a good humanist advocating the only viable policy against narcotics, while others view him as a reactionary hindering new treatment practices against drug abuse.