Kurt Lewin
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Kurt Lewin was a
German jewish psychologist specialized in group dynamics
and group therapy, affiliated with the Frankfurt
School and the Tavistock
Institute. His theories were used in the Multiculti
agenda (cultural relativism of the Left
Wing Church) and fake sexual revolution of the
60's. He was born 9/9/1890 in Poland. At the University of
Berlin he was a student of Carl Stumpf, who also tutored
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One of his fellow students was Max Wertheimer who co-founded the Gestalt school of psychology and later worked at The New School. Lewin was affiliated with the Frankfurt School. He visited Stanford University in 1930 and in 1933 he met Eric Trist of Tavistock and moved to the US to work at Cornell and the University of Iowa. He founded center research for group dynamics at MIT and published in Tavistock journal Human Relations. Wertheimer was the teacher of Solomon Asch.
In 1936 he published Principles of Topological Psychology. He attended the Macy conferences on cybernetics of the Macy foundation in 1939 with Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Norbert Wiener (student of Betrand Russell), Harold Abramson (LSD experiments MK Ultra), John von Neumann (RAND).
In 1941 he was the president of the Society for Psychological Study of
Social Issues (SPSSI) with Gordon Allport (teacher of Stanley Milgram),
Kenneth Clark (City College of
NY, Civil Rights Movement),
Gardner Murphy (CCNY, APA, SPR), Georgene
Hoffman Seward (feminist), Morton Deutsch (CCNY),
Rensis Likert, Hadley Cantril (Princeton research with Orson
Welles), Otto Klineberg (Unesco).
His theories of force field analysis influenced the Gestalt school of psychology. In 1946 he developed sensitivity training at MIT to work on racial prejudices, which led to National Training Laboratories at Bethel Maine in 1947.
He died 2/12/1947. His books published by Harper and American Psychological Association.
He mentored Dorwin Cartwright, Leon Festinger (cognitive dissonance, infiltrated a doomsday cult, The New School, Macy conferences), Roger Barker, Bluma Zeigarnik (research on memory), Morton Deutsch (CCNY, conflict resolution, American Jewish Congress, Columbia).
He influenced Abraham Maslow (CCNY) and Fritz Perls (expressionism, dadaism) of the Esalen Institute.
Lewin = Ira Levin who wrote the novel Rosemary's Baby for Polish director Roman Polanski.
Works
1935 A dynamic theory of personality
1936 Principles of topological psychology
1938 The conceptual representation and measurement of psychological
forces
1948 Resolving social conflicts: selected papers on group dynamics
(posthumous, with Gertrude Lewin)
1951 Field theory in social science (with Dorwin Cartwright)