On July 22, 2011 a bomb detonated in the government building in central Oslo in Norway and eight persons died. Later that day, 69 people, most of them youths, were shot down and killed on the island of Utøya by a uniformed Norwegian man.The purpose of this study is to analyse Anders Behring Breivik's personality and explain why he became a killer. I have used a Psychobiographical narrative method, which serves to describe the mind of a human being, linking the mind to motives, scripts, unconscious ideas and personality.My primary sources are Breivik?s Manifest: 2083 A European Declaration of Independence and the inter-views with his father and stepfather, together with the Psychiatric Reports which were submitted to the District Court of Oslo. I have analysed in what way Breivik?s childhood influenced his behavior as an adult.

Syftet med denna studie var att belysa vilken betydelse utövandet av ett kognitivt förhållningssätt skulle kunna ha för tonåringar i deras vardag. Metoden som användes var halvstrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med fem personer som var utbildade och insatta i den kognitiva terapin. Intervjuerna tolkades och analyserades utifrån en hermeneutisk ansats. Resultatet visade att det kognitiva förhållningssättet med utgångspunkt i den kognitiva terapin, har betydelse för tonåringar. Genom att arbeta utifrån den kognitiva terapins ram kan professionella få den unge att fundera kring samband mellan tanke, känsla och handling.