Paul Rosenfels
Paul Rosenfels was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Rosenfels is known as one of the first American social scientists to publish about homosexuality as part of the human condition, as opposed to his contemporaries who largely defined homosexuality as an illness or deviation. After leaving the academic field of psychiatry in the 1940s, he developed some of his thinking and a larger philosophy.
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Background
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
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"Life is each human being's workshop. If a man survives a lifetime with his creative capacities intact, he has done his part to make a better world for all men."
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Timeline
1909
Born
Birth1985
Died
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