Leo Eitinger
Leo Eitinger · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist who pioneered the study of trauma in Holocaust survivors
1912, Lomnice, Moravia (now Czech Republic) — 1996, Oslo, Norway
Czechoslovakia · Norway
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Eitinger was a psychiatrist who pioneered the study of long-term psychological trauma in Holocaust survivors, helping to establish what became known as survivor syndrome and shaping the modern understanding of PTSD. A Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, he was himself deported to Auschwitz, survived, and became a leading professor of psychiatry in Norway and a close friend of Elie Wiesel.
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Psychiatrist who pioneered the study of trauma in Holocaust survivors
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