ABOUT ME
Lars G Petersson is a 59 year old Swedish-born Londoner, activist and free-lance writer with special interest in peace, mental health, social justice and human rights. He is the author of a large number of articles and five books (three titles in three languages): FANEFLUGT (Danish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2004), DESERTERS (2005), ABUSE UK (Chipmunkapublishing, 2010), MUSTERUNG (2010) and MEDICAL RAPE (2010).
Trained as a nurse – specialising in mental health, social issues and addiction – Lars G Petersson has persistently used his insider knowledge to disclose matters otherwise hidden from public scrutiny (the latest of those this year’s uncovering of abuse within the English and Scottish nursing home service). In a number of cases this has led to serious public debate and major improvements for vulnerable people. In one case criticism of serious maltreatment of (non criminal) Iran/Iraq war deserters in a Copenhagen prison http://www.larsgpetersson.com/kalmar/leytonstone/western-prison/ (Amnesty International Report 1991) led to significant improvements in the treatment of refugees in Denmark. In another, Petersson’s disclosures from a psychiatric unit under the Danish Ministry of Defence led to major reforms in military ‘training methods’ of recruits. http://www.larsgpetersson.com/military-abuse/dansk/
For a number of years Lars G Petersson was coordinator for the Danish section of Amnesty International’s work against the death penalty. http://www.larsgpetersson.com/death-penalty/
An insider’s understanding of the military he achived as a conscripted soldier (trained as a lowest possible grade fighter plane mechanic) in the Swedish air forces at the time of the cold war. Finally, he has gathered extensive knowledge of German politics and society ever since the early seventies when he worked as a massage therapist in the state of Hesse.
Lars is married to Irish Josephine, his staunchest ally, friend and collaborator.