Arnold Juklerød

Arnold Juklerød (8 January 1925 in Drangedal, for a long time living in Kragerø – 25 January 1996 at Aker hospital in Oslo) was a Norwegian construction worker who became known for his conflict with psychiatric institutions in Norway from around 1970 until his death which is other wise known as the "Juklerød-case"

In 1968 he was elected to lead a parent campaign against the closure of Holtane school in Kragerø, where his youngest daughter was to begin. He claimed that the closure was in violation of the law, acquired a typewriter and sent many letters to the newspapers.

Three years after the parental action campaign, a dispute with his wife concluded in his forced hospitalization in psychiatric care on the 22nd of November 1971. He was diagnosed with "Paranoia 297.0, Religious quarrelsome type" and was forcibly medicated with drugs Trilafon, Akineton and Peragit.

With this he began a struggle with psychiatric institutions, which cost him his job, property and family. On 11 August 1995 Arnold Juklerød received an unconditional admission from the Ministry of Education and Research that his "delusions" in the Holtane case had been correct.

Juklerød received considerable media attention, and it is claimed that his involvement has led to reforms in psychiatry in Norway.

When Arnold Juklerød was discharged in 1985, he refused to leave the hospital area, because his diagnosis "incurable and severely mentally ill" was not annulled.

Until his death, he stayed in the hospital area in a tent or a shack, as a protest against Norwegian psychiatry.