Personality Disorders

Abstract

I pick up Samina at the central station in Oslo. She has taken the train in to ride with me to a village in Sørlandet. We are going to visit her son, Usman. He is in a mental institution for observation. After serving his previous sentence, he was assigned an apartment, job and had follow-up, but after an entire year outside prison, he is again in custody. What has he done? I ask. She says she does not know, even though she has spoken with both the attorney and the psychologist. I wonder why she is satisfied not knowing this. Is it because she does not understand the system, or does it not matter to her what he has done? I also wonder whether perhaps she is ashamed of his action, and therefore does not want to tell me.