Kenneth Levin

Kenneth Levin

Kenneth Levin (born 1944) is a Newton, Massachusetts psychiatrist and historian and author of "The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege".

Levin is clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He holds an B.A from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A./M.A. in English language and literature from Oxford University, an M.D. degree form the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in history from Princeton University. His thesis was on "Sigmund Freud's Early Studies of the Neuroses, 1886-1905."

In an article entitled, "Transforming the Jewish Psyche," journalist Warren Kozak discussed Levin's analysis of the modern "penchant for self-denigration among Jewish people." Kozak summarized that "Dr. Levin, no sixth grade thinker, tells us that after centuries of hearing grotesque lies about Jewish people, that narrative hasn't just rubbed off on anti-Semites, but on some Jews as well." [ [ http://www.nysun.com/article/36370] ] In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Manfred Gerstenfeld praised Levin's "Oslo Syndrome" for bringing to light "this phenomenon of identifying with one's besiegers." [ [ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847323863&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter ] ]

Following the 2005 publication of his book "The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege", Levin became a frequent commentator on Middle East affairs. [ [http://www.meforum.org/article/783 The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege - Middle East Forum ] ] [ [ http://www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/jt-050317-11.html ] ] [ [http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=A6BAC60D-3F0C-4059-838C-1761F6084311 FrontPage Magazine ] ] [ [www.nysun.com/article/64887] ] [ [www.nysun.com/article/66878] ] Levin told an interviewer that he wrote "The Oslo Syndrome" to explain "why Israel's leaders, supported by the nation's academic and cultural elites and much of the broader population, were pursuing a course that was demonstrably placing the nation, including their own families, at dire risk." [ [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=%7BF66256B6-688A-45AE-9252-CF9758750035%7D FrontPage Magazine ] ]

The Oslo syndrome is a corollary of the Stockholm syndrome. Levin's original contribution is that the syndrome can afflict an entire people. The concept has passed into common usage in discussions of the Middle East. For example, "To insist otherwise is to risk repeating the Oslo syndrome of Palestinian deception and Israeli self-deception. And that's precisely what happened recently ..." Yossi Klein Halevi, a contributing editor at The New Republic. [cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10647 |title=Fenced In |accessdate=2008-02-21 |author=Yossi Klein Halevi |date=2003-11-05 |work=FrontPageMag.com] Or Robert R. Friedmann question, "It appears that the Oslo syndrome is still alive and (not so) well "Are US Jewish leaders wrong again?" [Robert R. Friedmann, A Diary Of Four Years Of Terrorism And Anti-Semitism: 2000-2004 , p. 264 ]

Books

*"Freud's Early Psychology of the Neuroses: A Historical Perspective and Unconscious Fantasy in Psychotherapy".
*"Unconscious Fantasy in Psychotherapy" (1993)
*"The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege"

References


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