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Leo Eitinger

Leo Eitinger

1912–1996

Nationality
Norway
Occupation
historian of Modern Age

Leo Eitinger (12 December 1912 – 15 October 1996) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Bredtveit prison
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  2. Bredtveit prison
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  3. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
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  4. Buchenwald concentration camp
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  5. Buchenwald concentration camp
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  6. Buchenwald concentration camp
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  7. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
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  8. Buchenwald concentration camp
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  9. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
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  10. Bredtveit prison
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  11. Bredtveit prison
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  12. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown

Biography

Leo Eitinger (12 December 1912 – 15 October 1996) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator. He was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later. He devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan (1920–1970), Primo Levi (1919–1987) and many others to commit suicide several decades after the experience. Eitinger was a pioneer of research into psychological trauma among refugees, and also laid the foundation for Norwegian military psychiatry research with emphasis on psychological trauma among soldiers.

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