Gregory Zilboorg
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Russian-American psychoanalyst and translator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gregory Zilboorg was a psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry who is remembered for situating psychiatry within a broad sociological and humanistic context in his many writings and lectures. Life and career Zilboorg was born into a Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine on December 25, 1890 and studied medicine in St. Petersburg, where he worked under Vladimir Bekhterev. In 1917, after the February Revolution, he served as secretary to the Ministry of Labor under two prime ministers . When the Bolsheviks came to power, he fled to Kiev and established a reputation as a political journalist and drama critic.
