William Guglielmo Niederland

William Guglielmo Niederland (1904 to 1993) was a German-American psychoanalyst and a pioneer in the scholarly field of psychogeography. He was born in Schippenbeil, East Prussia, the son of an orthodox rabbi, and grew up exposed both to a classic Talmudic education and to the secular learning of the Realgymnasium of Würzburg. After completing his medical studies at the University of Würzburg he went on to an internship and residency in medicine and for years served as an officer of the Department of Health for the industrial region of the Ruhr. In the 1950s he began work with concentration camp survivors, documenting their particular reactions and coining the term survivor syndrome in 1961. He later worked with the Vietnam Veteran Working Group to restore the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder to the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association manual of mental disorders in 1980. He wrote The Schreber Case (1974) on Daniel Paul Schreber.