Manfred Guttmacher
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Manfred S. Guttmacher was a forensic psychiatrist and chief medical officer at the Court Clinic for Baltimore City's Supreme Bench, who authored America's Last King: An Interpretation of the Madness of George III (establishing his reputation as a medical historian), and numerous other works.
Guttmacher was born in 1898 to a family of rabbis. Like his brother, Alan Frank Guttmacher, his A.B. and M.D. degrees were earned from the Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, Maryland, after which Manfred served as an intern at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, then as a resident house officer in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After two years an Emmanuel Libman fellow studying neurology, psychiatry, and criminology overseas, he relocated to Boston for psychiatric training at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital.
He was appointed chief medical adviser to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore in 1930, where he served with distinction until his 1966 death. In 1933, he published his first paper, “Psychiatry and the Adult Delinquent” in the National Probation Association Yearbook of 1933 (on forensic psychiatry).
He is seen as a contributor to the development of that field as attested by his books:
Jonas R. Rappeport, MD, who grew up in Baltimore and babysat for Manfred and Carola Guttmacher (now [Carola Eisenberg]), retired from forensic practice in 1999, is called the Founding Father of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
He had four sons: Dr. Jonathan Guttmacher of Boston Richard Guttmacher of Washington, Laurence Guttmacher, now a Dean and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Alan Edward Guttmacher
, Acting Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH.
Guttmacher was born in 1898 to a family of rabbis. Like his brother, Alan Frank Guttmacher, his A.B. and M.D. degrees were earned from the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
in Baltimore, Maryland, after which Manfred served as an intern at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, then as a resident house officer in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After two years an Emmanuel Libman fellow studying neurology, psychiatry, and criminology overseas, he relocated to Boston for psychiatric training at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital.
He was appointed chief medical adviser to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore in 1930, where he served with distinction until his 1966 death. In 1933, he published his first paper, “Psychiatry and the Adult Delinquent” in the National Probation Association Yearbook of 1933 (on forensic psychiatry).
He is seen as a contributor to the development of that field as attested by his books:
- Sex offenses by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Norton, 1951
- Psychiatry and the law by Manfred S. Guttmacher (with Henry Weihofen), Norton, 1952
- The mind of the murderer by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1960*The mind of the murderer. by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Grove Press, 1962
- The mind of the murderer by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Books for Libraries Press, 1973
- The role of psychiatry in law by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Thomas, 1968
- Isaac Ray Award in 1957
- The Salmon Lectures.
Jonas R. Rappeport, MD, who grew up in Baltimore and babysat for Manfred and Carola Guttmacher (now [Carola Eisenberg]), retired from forensic practice in 1999, is called the Founding Father of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
He had four sons: Dr. Jonathan Guttmacher of Boston Richard Guttmacher of Washington, Laurence Guttmacher, now a Dean and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Alan Edward Guttmacher
Alan Edward Guttmacher
Alan Edward Guttmacher, M.D. , was appointed Acting Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in 2008, helping oversee the institute's efforts in advancing genome research, exploring its ethical, legal, and social implications, and integrating its benefits into health care.On...
, Acting Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH.
Books by Manfred S. Guttmacher
- Sex offenses by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Norton, 1951
- Psychiatry and the law by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Norton, 1952
- The mind of the murderer by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1960*The mind of the murderer. by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Grove Press, 1962
- The mind of the murderer by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Books for Libraries Press, 1973
- The role of psychiatry in law by Manfred S. Guttmacher, Thomas, 1968