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Harry Levinson (1922 – June 26, 2012) was an American psychologist and consultant in work and organizational issues.〔Lowman, RL (2005) Importance of diagnosis in organizational assessment: Harry Levinson's contributions. ''The Psychologist-Manager Journal,''8(1):17-28.〕 He was a pioneer in the application of psychoanalytic theory to management and leadership.〔〔 He linked the failure of managers to effectively contain the anxieties of workers to employee depression and low productivity.〔Deutsch, Claudia H. (Harry Levinson, Psychologist for the Workplace, Dies at 90 ), (''The New York Times'' ), New York, June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2012〕 ==Biography== Levinson was born in Port Jervis, New York on January 16, 1922. His parents were both immigrants. His father was a tailor, and his mother was a homemaker.〔 He was the oldest of three children. He grew up in a time when anti-Semitism was prevalent, a barrier he overcame in his quest to become a teacher and writer.〔 Although his beginnings were modest, he would become one of the most influential consulting psychologists of his time.〔 From an early age he loved reading and writing and won his first writing award when he was in the seventh grade.〔〔 Levinson received his B.S. degree (1943) and his M.S. degree (1947) from Emporia State University. He received his clinical training and completed his PhD (1952) at the University of Kansas from a joint clinical psychology program operated with the Topeka Veteran's Administration and the Menninger Clinic.〔 In the 1950s, Levinson played a key role in the reformation of the Kansas state hospital system, creating the Division of Industrial Mental Health of The Menninger Foundation in 1954. During the academic year 1961–62 he was a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1967 at the School of Business at the University of Kansas.〔(The Levinson Institute )〕 In 1968 he moved to the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and simultaneously established The Levinson Institute which he headed it until he retired in 1992.〔 The aim of the institute was to develop a psychoanalytic approach to the practice of management and a deeper understanding of leadership and its role in organizational processes.〔 From 1968 to 1972 Levinson was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation distinguished visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Levinson was a Ford Foundation visiting professor at the H. C. Mathur Institute of Public Administration in Jaipur, India, in the summer of 1974. He was a visiting centennial professor at Texas A&M in April 1976, and in September 1979 conducted the international course on occupational social psychiatry for the Finnish Government Institute of Occupational Health, under the sponsorship of the Nordic Council of Ministers.〔 Levinson headed the Kansas Psychological Association and the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He was active throughout his life with the Society of Consulting Psychology, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), of which he was a founding member, and the Society of Psychologists in Management which he helped found in 1985. Levinson played a "learned role" at each symposium of the (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations ) during its early years. He constantly challenged psychoanlytic organizational theorists to summarize what they had learned, and articulate where they were going in their work. He was an Honorary Associate at the Center for the Study of Organizational Change from 2010 until his death. He married his first wife, Roberta, in 1946 and they divorced in 1970.〔 They had four children together. He met his second wife, Miriam in 1989. Together they founded the Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship offered by the (American Psychological Foundation ) and the Harry Levinson Scholarship in Organizational Behavior at Emporia State. They remained married until his death. Levinson began losing his eyesight in 2001 due to macular degeneration.〔 Although he could not longer read or write, he continued to consult with colleagues and students by phone. Harry Levinson died at the age of 90 on June 26, 2012.〔 He was buried in the railway town of Port Jervis where he was born. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Levinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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