Leo Goldberger

Leo Goldberger (born June 28, 1930) is a psychologist, author, and editor known for his work in sensory deprivation,[1][2][3][4] personality, stress and coping,[5] as well as for his writings on the rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust.

[9] Goldberger's formative years were spent in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he grew up and where he endured the German occupation, escaping by fishing boat to Sweden during the Nazi round-up of the Jews in October 1943, with the assistance of Fanny Arnskov.

In 1952 he moved to the US and worked as a member of an interdisciplinary team in the Human Ecology Program (at NY Hospital-Cornell-Medical Center)[11] studying the stress experienced by Chinese nationals stranded in the US after the communist revolution in China.

Becoming a US citizen in 1959, he discharged his military obligation as a civilian researcher for the US Air Force, conducting simulation studies in support of the Mercury Astronaut Space Selection Program[14] His interest in psychoanalysis led him to the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, from which he graduated in 1967.

His research and theoretical orientation consistently favored an empirical, inter-disciplinary approach and he became part of a like-minded group of psychoanalysts that established Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, of which he served as editor for 27 years.