Heinz Leymann
Heinz Leymann (17 July 1932 – 26 January 1999) was a Swedish academic, famous for his studies on mobbing among humans. He held a degree in pedagogical psychology, and another one in psychiatry and worked as a psychologist. He was a professor at Umeå University.
Academic background
Born in 1932 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Leymann, became a Swedish citizen in the mid-1950s, and was awarded his PhD in pedagogical psychology from Stockholm University in 1978.[1] He then went on to get another research doctorate (doktor i medicinsk vetenskap, "doctor of medical science," typically translated into English as PhD) in psychiatry in 1990 from Umeå University.[2] Somewhat unusually, his doctorate in psychiatry was based on his clinical background as a psychologist; he did not go through medical training.[3]
Leymann's work on mobbing
Leymann pioneered research into mobbing in the 1980s. His initial research in the area was based on detailed case studies of a number of nurses who had committed or tried to commit suicide due to events at the workplace.[4] He developed the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT), a questionnaire of 45 mobbing actions.
Although he preferred the term bullying in the context of school children, some have come to regard mobbing as a form of group bullying. As professor and practicing psychologist, Leymann also noted one of the side-effects of mobbing is post-traumatic stress disorder and is frequently misdiagnosed.
Among researchers who have built on Leymann's work are:
- Davenport, Schwartz & Elliott[5]
- Hecker[6]
- Shallcross, Ramsay & Barker[7]
- Westhues[8]
- Zapf & Einarsen[9]
See also
- Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror
- Workplace bullying
References
- ^ Leymann, Heinz, Kan arbetslivet demokratiseras?: om vikten av att se demokratiseringen som en inlärningsprocess = [Is democracy on the job possible?] : [the significance of the learning process underlying democratic participation], Pedagogiska inst., Stockholms univ., Diss. Stockholm : Univ.,Stockholm, 1978 - LIBRIS record
- ^ Leymann, Heinz, Psychological reactions to violence in working life: bank robberies, Umeå, 1990 (Umeå University medical dissertations, 0346-6612 ; N.S., 289) - LIBRIS record
- ^ The Mobbing Encyclopaedia: A presentation of Professor Heinz Leymann, PhD, MD sci Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2010-06-07
- ^ Maciej Zaremba, Fritt fram i Sverige. Men brottsligt i Frankrike Archived 2010-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Dagens Nyheter 2010-06-03 (in Swedish)
- ^ Davenport NZ, Schwartz RD & Elliott GP Mobbing, Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, 3rd Edition 2005, Civil Society Publishing. Ames, IA,
- ^ Hecker, Thomas E. (2007). "Workplace Mobbing: A Discussion for Librarians". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 33 (4): 439–445. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2007.03.003.
- ^ Shallcross L, Ramsay S & Barker M "Workplace Mobbing: Expulsion, Exclusion, and Transformation Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine (2008) (blind peer reviewed) Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM)
- ^ Westhues K Eliminating Professors: A Guide to the Dismissal Process . Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Westhues K The Envy of Excellence: Administrative Mobbing of High-Achieving Professors Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Westhues K "At the Mercy of the Mob" Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine OHS Canada, Canada's Occupational Health & Safety Magazine (18:8), pp. 30–36. - ^ Zapf D & Einarsen S 2005 "Mobbing at Work: Escalated Conflicts in Organizations." Counterproductive Work Behavior: Investigations of Actors and Targets. Fox, Suzy & Spector, Paul E. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association vii. p.
Duffy, M., & Sperry, L. (2012). Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links
- The Mobbing Encyclopaedia Website concerning Leymann's work on mobbing.
- The Heinz Leymann Memorial Website Website dedicated to the research of Dr. Heinz Leymann.
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- Abusive supervision
- Cyberbullying
- Disability bullying
- Displaced aggression
- Doxing
- LGBT bullying
- Hazing
- Military bullying
- Mobbing
- Parental bullying of children
- Peer victimization
- Prison bullying
- Rank
- Relational aggression
- School bullying
- Sexual bullying
- Workplace harassment
- Workplace bullying
- Toxic workplace
- Betrayal
- Blacklisting
- Bullying and emotional intelligence
- Cancel culture
- Character assassination
- Coercion
- Culture of fear
- Defamation
- Destabilisation
- Discrediting
- Embarrassment
- False accusation
- Gaslighting
- Gossip
- Harassment
- Humiliation
- Incivility
- Intimidation
- Isolation
- Kiss up kick down
- Mind games
- Moving the goalposts
- Nagging
- Name calling
- Personal attacks
- Physical abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Rudeness
- Sarcasm
- Screaming
- Shame
- Smear campaign
- Social exclusion
- Social undermining
- Swatting
- Taunting
- Workplace incivility
- Verbal abuse
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- William Arthur Gibbs (1877)
- Kelly Yeomans (1997)
- Hamed Nastoh (2000)
- Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000)
- Nicola Ann Raphael (2001)
- Ryan Halligan (2003)
- Megan Meier (2006)
- Sladjana Vidovic (2008)
- Phoebe Prince (2010)
- Tyler Clementi (2010)
- Jamey Rodemeyer (2011)
- Jamie Hubley (2011)
- Kenneth Weishuhn (2012)
- Audrie Pott (2012)
- Amanda Todd (2012)
- Jadin Bell (2013)
- Rehtaeh Parsons (2013)
- Rebecca Sedwick (2013)
- Leelah Alcorn (2014)
- Conrad Roy (2014)
- Tyrone Unsworth (2016)
(incidents)
- Emotional blackmail
- Just-world hypothesis
- List of LGBT-related suicides
- Machiavellianism in the workplace
- Narcissism in the workplace
- Personal boundaries
- Personality disorders
- Playing the victim
- Psychopathy in the workplace
- Scapegoating
- Self-esteem
- Social dominance orientation
- Suicide among LGBT youth
- Victim blaming
- Victimisation
- Victimology