A Healer for Sure

If you define healers as people who carry out activities to help people, Kurt Lewin should be included.  His biography, The Practical Theorist, by Alfred Marrow, tells about his life and thought.  He worked at Iowa, where Julian Rotter was his student, and where my daughter lived, which is one of the reasons that I got interested.  It also rounds out the biographers of the early Gestalt Psychologists, for me.  Anyway, Lewin did studies of what could be done to help people meet their goals at work.  He did action research involving how groups made decisions and got along with each other.  He was active in the WWII efforts.  He used a Jordan Curve to represent a person in his or her environment.  I was never sure about how to pronounce his name.  It turns out that he always said "La Veen", but when his children were always asked why it wasn't "Lou In", he started saying it the latter way.  A saying is attributed to him - there is nothing so practical as a good theory.  I'd say read The Practical Theorist, and if you want to, get it now on line, because there aren't a lot of copies available!