Leo Eitinger
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1912 – 1996
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Who was Leo Eitinger?
Leo Eitinger was a Holocaust survivor and Norwegian psychiatrist 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 late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors, wherein Holocaust survivors like Paul Celan, Primo Levi and many others committed suicide due to holocaust trauma, several decades after the experience, towards late adulthood.
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- Born
- Dec 12, 1912
Austria-Hungary - Education
- Masaryk University
- Died
- Oct 15, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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