Erich Lindemann was an American author 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 Coconut Grove Night Club fire in 1942. His contributions to the field of mental health led to the naming of a joint Harvard University–Commonwealth of Massachusetts-run mental health complex in Boston in his honor.

Education

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. He later earned a fellowship to Harvard Medical School in 1935 .

Work

Author of "Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief", a paper on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Posttraumaticstress disorder is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity,...

. It was published in September 1944.

Studied the survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire

Cocoanut Grove fire

The Cocoanut Grove was Boston's premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 40s. On November 28, 1942, occurred the scene of what remains the deadliest nightclub fire, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more...

(1942), which was the deadliest nightclub fire in United States history.

External links

• http://www.profitmt.com/medical_transcriptionist_article_113.htm
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407200126.html
• S. Fleck, Erich Lindemann 1900–1974, SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, Volume 10, Number 3, 153, DOI: 10.1007/BF00578081