Levinson, Daniel Jacob (1920– )

US psychologist. He was a professor of psychiatry at Yale University (from 1966) and wrote The Authoritarian Person (1950), Patienthood in the Mental Hospital (1964), and The Seasons of a Man's Life (1978). Levinson was born in New York City. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (1947–50). In 1950 he joined Harvard University as a professor and research associate (to 1966).