Nationality American Role Author Name Manfred Guttmacher | Religion Jewish (secular) Siblings Alan Frank Guttmacher | |
Born 1898 USA Occupation PsychiatristChild psychiatristForensic psychiatristMedical educator Died 1966, United States of America Books The Mind of the Murderer, Sex Offenses - The Problem, Causes And Prevention Children Alan Edward Guttmacher, Richard Guttmacher, Jonathan Guttmacher People also search for Alan Frank Guttmacher, Carola B. Eisenberg, Alan Edward Guttmacher, Leon Eisenberg | ||
Manfred Schanfarten 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.
Guttmacher was born in 1898 in Baltimore to Rabbi Adolf (Adolph) Guttmacher, and Laura (Oppenheimer) Guttmacher, German Jewish emigrants. Like his twin 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 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).
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.