Stephen Fleck

Stephen Fleck (September 18, 1912 – December 19, 2002) was a professor in the Psychiatry[1] and Epidemiology and Public Health[2] Departments at the Yale University School of Medicine[3] from 1953 to 1983 and professor emeritus from 1983 until his death.

He had an early effect on the direction that American psychiatry took during the mid- to late-twentieth century. With Theodore Lidz and Alice Cornelison, he was a co-author of the seminal book Schizophrenia and the Family[4] (1965), a significant influence on the modern psychiatric thought and practice regarding the origins and treatments of schizophrenia.

One of four sons and one daughter born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Georg and Anna Fleck, he was a young medical student in 1933 when a professor warned him and several other Jewish students that there were Nazi warrants out for their arrests. Fleck and most of his immediate family fled Hitler's Germany, first to The Netherlands and then, in 1935, to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became a U.S. citizen.

He finished medical school at Harvard, where he was a graduate assistant to John Rock while Rock was performing the preliminary research that led to the invention of the first birth control pill. This helped to spark Fleck's lifelong interest in contraception and family planning issues.

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