Education
After the war he studied psychoanalysis in the United States of America and in 1960 became a senior physician at the National Hospital in Copenhagen.
After the war he studied psychoanalysis in the United States of America and in 1960 became a senior physician at the National Hospital in Copenhagen.
After becoming an Doctor of Medicine in 1938, Vanggaard obtained the higher doctorate in 1941. Although his critics have called him arrogant and a male chauvinist, fellow psychiatrist Preben Hertoft in his memoirs described both good and bad qualities of Vanggaard. In the 1970s, he wrote an article called "Eros and Power", which provoked an outcry from feminists who called for his removal as a senior Doctor of Medicine. In the middle of a televised debate, he left the studio, declaring that the debate was frivolous.
Vanggaard introduced the concept of borderline and schizotypal disorders to Denmark.