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 BaltimoreLeon Eisenberg.
Manfred S. Guttmacher 1898-1966
. ''The American Journal of Psychiatry'', 123(8), pp. 1029–1030. https://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1029 to Rabbi Adolf (Adolph) Guttmacher and Laura (Oppenheimer) Guttmacher, German-Jewish emigrants. Like his twin brother,

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, his A.B. and M.D. degrees were earned from the

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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

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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, Lawrence, and

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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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