Manfred Schanfarber Guttmacher (May 19, 1898 – November 7, 1966) was an American forensic psychiatrist and chief medical officer who focused on the connections between psychiatry and criminal law. Guttmacher testified in the trial of
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and authored ''The Dog Must Wag The Tail: Psychiatry And The Law'', ''America's Last King: An Interpretation of the Madness of George III'' and other works.
Guttmacher was born in 1898 in Baltimore
[Leon Eisenberg.]
Manfred S. Guttmacher 1898-1966
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Adolf Guttmacher and Laura (Oppenheimer) Guttmacher, German-Jewish emigrants. Like his twin brother,
Alan Frank Guttmacher
Alan Frank Guttmacher (May 19, 1898 – March 18, 1974) was an American obstetrician/gynecologist. He served as president of Planned Parenthood and vice-president of the American Eugenics Society. Guttmacher founded the American Association of ...
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his A.B. and M.D. degrees were earned from the
Johns Hopkins University
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in
Baltimore, Maryland
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, after which he served as an intern at the
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, then as a resident house officer in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After two years as an Emmanuel Libman fellow studying neurology, psychiatry, and criminology overseas, he relocated to Boston for psychiatric training at the
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
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He was appointed chief medical adviser to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore in 1930, where he served until his 1966 death from leukemia.
In 1933, he published his first paper, ''Psychiatry and the Adult Delinquent'' in the National Probation Association Yearbook of 1933 (on forensic psychiatry).
Honors
* Isaac Ray Award, 1957
* The Salmon Lectures
Personal life
He had four sons: Richard, Jonathan, Laurence, and
Alan
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Richard and Jonathan were born with his first wife Jacelyn, and Laurence and Alan were born by his second wife,
Carola Eisenberg, MD.
Works
Books
*
Sex Offenses'. Norton, 1951.
* (with Henry Weihofen)
Psychiatry and the Law'. Norton, 1952.
*
The Mind of the Murderer'. Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1960.
*
The Role of Psychiatry in Law'. Thomas, 1968.
Selected articles
*
Adult court psychiatric clinics. ''American Journal of Psychiatry'' 106:881–8, 1950.
References
External links
Manfred S. Guttmacher Papers, 1928-1964 (inclusive). H MS c205. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
Alan F. Guttmacher papers, 1860, 1898-1974. H MS c 155. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
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1898 births
1966 deaths
American forensic psychiatrists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Health professionals from Baltimore
Deaths from leukemia in Maryland
American twins
American people of German-Jewish descent
20th-century American psychologists