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.

In the same year he earned a fellowship to Harvard Medical School, and in 1929 made his move to the United States permanent.

[1] Author of "Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief", a paper on posttraumatic stress disorder.

Created the first community mental health center in the United States: the Wellesley Human Relations Service.