About the Book:

The typical struggle in America is the rise from poverty, which is compounded when one has to rise through the ranks of major social institutions. In this book, Harry Levinson documents his climb through three major clinical and educational institutions.   Such a climb inevitably encounters resistance and hostility, yet Dr. Levinson found it both challenging and rewarding. In this personal volume, the author recounts his life history, including time spent on the faculties of  MIT and Harvard Universities, as well as his relationship with the Menninger Foundation.

About the Author:

Harry Levinson, Ph.D. is chairman emeritus and founder of The Levinson Institute. He is a clinical professor of psychology emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Born in Port Jervis, New York, Dr. Levinson received his B.S. degree and his M.S. degree from Emporia (Kansas) State University. He took his training in clinical psychology in the Veterans Administration-Menninger Foundation University of Kansas program, which led to his Ph.D. from the university. As coordinator of professional education at Topeka State Hospital from 1950 to 1953, he played a key role in the dramatic and widely acclaimed reformation of the Kansas state hospital system. In 1954, Dr. Levinson created, and for the next fourteen years directed, the Division of Industrial Mental Health of The Menninger Foundation. During the academic year 1961-62, he was a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1972, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. In 1992, he received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Knowledge. In 2000, the American Psychological Association presented him with the Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology.