Manfred Guttmacher

Manfred S. Guttmacher
Born	1898 USA
Died	1966 USA
Nationality	American
Education	Johns Hopkins (AB, MD)
Occupation(s)	Psychiatrist Child psychiatrist Forensic psychiatrist Medical educator
Spouse(s)	Carola Blitzman Guttmacher, MD
Children	Jonathan Guttmacher, MD; Richard Guttmacher; Alan Edward 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 and 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.

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

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

References

• 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.