Manfred Guttmacher

Manfred S. Guttmacher, MD
Born	1898 USA
Died	1966 USA
Nationality	American
Education	Johns Hopkins - AB, MD
Occupation	Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist, Forensic Psychiatrist, Medical Educator
Religion	Jewish (secular)
Spouse	Carola Blitzman Guttmacher, MD
Children	Jonathan Guttmacher, MD; Richard Guttmacher; Alan Edward Guttmacher MD; Laurence Guttmacher, MD

Manfred S. Guttmacher (1898–1966) 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:

• 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, 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

Bibliography

• Guttmacher MS: Adult court psychiatric clinics. American Journal of Psychiatry 106:881–8, 1950 Free Full Text
• Eisenberg L. Obituary: Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D. (1898-1966) American Journal of Psychiatry 1967 (February); 123(8):1029-1030.

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Name	Guttmacher, Manfred
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Date of birth	1898
Place of birth	USA
Date of death	1966
Place of death	USA