Manfred Guttmacher

Manfred Guttmacher
Born Manfred Schanfarber Guttmacher
May 19, 1898[1]
Baltimore, Maryland
Died November 7, 1966(1966-11-07) (aged 68)
Stevenson, Maryland
Nationality American
Education Johns Hopkins (AB, MD)
Occupation Psychiatrist
Child psychiatrist
Forensic psychiatrist
Medical educator
Spouse(s) Carola Blitzman Guttmacher
Children 4, including Alan Edward Guttmacher

Manfred Schanfarber Guttmacher (May 19, 1898 – November 7, 1966) was an American forensic psychiatrist and chief medical officer noted for his connection of psychiatry and criminal law. Among several notable cases, Guttmacher testified in the trial of Jack Ruby, 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.[2]

Guttmacher was born in 1898 in Baltimore[3][4] to Rabbi Adolf (Adolph) Guttmacher, and Laura (Oppenheimer) Guttmacher, German Jewish emigrants. Like his twin brother, Alan Frank Guttmacher,[1] 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 until his 1966 death from leukemia.[2] 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:

He had four sons: including Dr. Jonathan Guttmacher of Boston Richard Guttmacher of Washington, and Alan Edward Guttmacher.[2]

Books by Manfred S. Guttmacher

References

  1. 1 2 "M.S. Guttmacher, Psychiatrist, Dies; Called Jack Ruby Insane". The New York Times. November 8, 1966. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Dr. Manfred Guttmacher Dies at 68; Psychiatrist at Trial of Jack Ruby" (PDF). Washington Post. Associated Press. November 9, 1966. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bazelon, DL. Obituary for Manfred Guttmacher in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease: April 1967 - Volume 144 - Issue 4 - ppg 243-246
  4. ↑ Eisenberg, L. Manfred S. Guttmacher 1898-1966. American Journal of Psychiatry, 123(8), pp. 1029–1030 https://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1029

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