Background
Lindemann, Erich was born on May 2, 1900 in Witten, Germany. Son of Erich and Anna (Raeker) Lindemann.
Lindemann, Erich was born on May 2, 1900 in Witten, Germany. Son of Erich and Anna (Raeker) Lindemann.
Lindemann was a 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. In the same year he earned a fellowship to, and in 1929 made his move to the United States permanent.
Rotating intern U. Cologne Medical College, 1925. Resident physician department neurology U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1926-1927. Research associate psychiatry U. Iowa, 1927-1928, research associate experimental psychology, speech pathology, 1928-1929, instructor psychology, 1929-1931, assistant professor, 1931-1935.
Assistant physician U. Iowa Psychopathic Hospital, 1929-1935, psychiatrist outpatient department, 1932-1934.
Rockefeller fellow psychiatry, physiology Harvard, 1935-1936, instructor psychiatry Harvard Medical School, 1937-1941, associate psychiatry, 1941-1948, professor psychiatry, 1954-1974, also instructor psychiatry, associate professor mental health Harvard School Public Health. Psychiatrist outpatient department Massachusetts General Hospital, 1935-1937, successively associate psychiatrist, physician charge psychological outpatient department, chief psychiatrist.
Now visiting professor Stanford University Medical Center. Visiting professor at U. Tübingen, Germany, summer 1966.
Consultant psychiatrist Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Member expert panel mental health World Health Organization since 1957. Member Boston Psychoanalytic Society (president 1943-1946), American Psychiatric Association (chairman com preventive psychiatry 1952), Group for Advancement Psychiatry (Chairman of Commission preventive psychiatry 1950-1953), National Research Council, Boston Society Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts Association Mental Health, Social Science.
Married Elizabeth Brainerd, September 30, 1939. Children: Jeffrey, Brenda.