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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 (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, ==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 )
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