George Weinberg (psychologist)

George Weinberg is an American psychologist and psychotherapist.

Biography

In New York City he met in the 1960s years, members of the Gay Activists Alliance. As he watched the struggle for the recognition of the rights of gay people, he used the word homophobia. The word sat down in the coming years worldwide as designation by, to describe the rejection of homosexual people.

According to his own vineyard a composite of the Greek words homos ( "equal" ) and phobia began the word about from 1966 or 1967, according to Nichols statements from 1967, in this case to use ( "fear" ). The word Weinberg published in 1972 in his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

After the memories of the vineyard he thought in September 1965 in the preparation of a paper on an event at the East Coast Homo Audiophile Organizations ( ECHO) about the fact that many heterosexual Psychoanalyst at that time showed strong negative personal reactions when they gather outside the clinical environment with homosexuals were, and it seemed to him the idea that this could be described as a phobia.

"I coined the word " homophobia " to express that it was a fear of homosexuals .... It was a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contamination, a fear of the things for which they were fighting - Home and Family - devalue. It was a religious fear and it had led to great inhumanity, as it's always the fear. "

Weinberg published other works in various subject areas. He wrote twelve books including the work of Statistics: An Intuitive Approach, which has been read in the following decades by many students. Furthermore, Weinberg wrote the book Self Creation and two books on Shakespeare, including the book Willpower: Using Shakespeare's Insights to Transform Your Life? as well as the work of Why Men Will not Commit. Weinberg wrote for various magazines and is quoted by the magazine Cosmopolitan often. Weinberg wrote for television broadcasts, most recently in 2006 for the shipment Keith Ablow Show.

George Weinberg is married and has several children.

Works

  • The Action Approach, New York: St. Martin 's Press, 1969
  • Invisible Masters: Compulsions and the Fear did Drives Them, New York: Grove / Atlantic Press, 1993
  • Nearer to the Heart 's Desire, New York. Grove / Atlantic Press, 1992
  • Number Country, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987
  • The Pliant Animal: Understanding the Greatest Human Asset, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981
  • Self Creation, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978
  • Shakespeare in Love, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
  • Society and the Healthy Homosexual, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972, reprinted 1983
  • Statistics: An Intuitive Approach, Belmont, CA: Brook's / Cole, fourth printing, 1981
  • The Taboo Scarf, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990

Together with Diane Rowe

  • The Projection Principle, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988
  • Will Power! Using Shakespeare's Insights to Transform Your Life, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996

Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement Award, 1986
William Shakespeare Cosmopolitan (magazine) Jack Nichols (activist)
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