Harold Lief
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Harold I. Lief (1917–2007)[1] was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was famous as an advocate of sex education.[2][3] Lief is credited with the introduction in the DSM of the "inhibited sexual desire".[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Lief, who was born in Brooklyn, attended the University of Michigan and graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1942. Lief's psychoanalytic training was at Columbia University.[5]
Career
[edit]While a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, Lief started organizing the Center for the Study of Sex Education in Medicine In 1960. At the time, there were only three other medical schools with separate programs in sexology.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Harold Lief, 1917-2007 - Contemporary Sexuality". HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (23 March 2007). "Harold I. Lief, Advocate of Sex Education, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
- ^ Ruberg, Cynthia Lief; Slowinski, Julian (2007). "In Memoriam: Harold I. Lief, MD". Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 33 (4): 277–80. doi:10.1080/00926230701401626. PMID 17541847. S2CID 41275452.
- ^ Goldstein, Irwin; Meston, Cindy M.; Davis, Susan; Traish, Abdulmaged (17 November 2005). Women's Sexual Function and Dysfunction: Study, Diagnosis and Treatment - Irwin Goldstein, Cindy M. Meston, Susan Davis, Abdulmaged Traish - Google Boeken. ISBN 9781842142639. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (23 March 2007). "Harold I. Lief, Advocate of Sex Education, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (23 March 2007). "Harold I. Lief, Advocate of Sex Education, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
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