Zigmond Meyer Lebensohn (1910-2003) was a Washington D.C. neurologist and psychiatrist who was a consultant to several government agencies, advisor to Ann Landers, and who published work concerning electroconvulsive therapy, general hospital psychiatry, the legalization of abortion, and psychiatry and the law. Lebensohn was born in 1910 in Kenosha, Wisconsin and graduated the pre-medical program at University of Wisconsin and then the medical school at Northwestern University in 1934. He interned at Cook County Hospital in Chicago before moving to Washington D.C. in 1935, where he completed a residency at St. Elizabeths Hospital (1935-1939). Lebensohn took further postgraduate training at the National Hospital in London. During World War II, Lebensohn was a Naval medical officer who served on the medical ship Samaritan and helped train Navy psychiatrists at St. Elizabeths Hospital. He also taught at Georgetown University’s medical school from 1941.

Lebensohn was chief of Sibley Memorial Hospital from 1957 until his retirement in 1976, after which he continued to treat patients at the Hospital and at his office in Washington D.C. He was founder and president of the Washington Psychiatric Society and president of the Academy of Medicine of Washington. Lebensohn was a consultant to numerous government agencies, including the U.S. Information Agency, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the U.S. Naval Hospital, and he was an advisor to the advice columnist Ann Landers. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law honored Lebensohn for his work in general hospital psychiatry. Lebensohn died in 2003 in Washington D.C.