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Erich Lindemann

Erich Lindemann (born 2 May 1900 in Witten, Germany) was a German-American writer and psychiatrist, specializing in bereavement. He worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as the Chief of Psychiatry and is noted for his extensive study on the effects of traumatic events on survivors and families after the Cocoanut Grove night club fire in 1942. His contributions to the field of mental health led to the naming of a joint Harvard UniversityCommonwealth of Massachusetts-run mental health complex in Boston in his honor, the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center. He died on November 16, 1974.

Lindemann E. Doctorate in psychology in 1922

Education edit

Lindemann was a graduate of the University hospital Gießen und Marburg and the Academy of Medicine in Düsseldorf, earning his doctorate in psychology in 1922 and his doctorate in medicine in 1927. In the same year he earned a fellowship to Harvard Medical School, and in 1929 made his move to the United States permanent.[1]

Work edit

Author of "Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief", a paper on posttraumatic stress disorder. It was published in September 1944.

Studied the survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire (1942), which was the deadliest nightclub fire in United States history.[2]

Developed the field of Community Mental Health and Social Psychiatry. Created the first community mental health center in the United States: the Wellesley Human Relations Service.


References edit

  1. ^ Kutter, Peter. "Das amerikanische Mental Health Program - Erich Lindemanns Beiträge zur sozialen Therapie" (PDF). Schriften zur Sozialen Therapie. Gesamthochschule Kassel Universität. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Grief | Encyclopedia.com".
  • David G. Satin, M.D. Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry (New York, Routledge, 2021) 3 volumes
  • Lindemann, Elizabeth B., Erich Lindemann: A Biographical Sketch (privately published, 1987)
  • Lindemann, Erich, Beyond Grief: Studies in Crisis Intervention (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1979)


External links edit

  • David George Satin, M.D. Erich Lindemann: The Humanist and the Era of Community Mental Health, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 126, Number 4, Aug. 1982
  • Grief, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, 2003
  • S. Fleck, Erich Lindemann 1900–1974, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Volume 10, Number 3, 153, doi:10.1007/BF00578081
  • Erich Lindemann papers, 1885-1991 (inclusive), 1950-1974 (bulk). H MS c219. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.


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