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American Psychiatric Association - Guttmacher Award

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award

Established in 1967 and presented for the first time in 1972, the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award honors outstanding contributions to the literature on forensic psychiatry. The award, co-sponsored by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) since 1982 and supported by a grant from Professional Risk Management, Inc., includes an honorarium and a bronze plaque. The award is officially presented at the AAPL meeting held in conjunction with the APA annual meeting, as is the recipient's award lecture. Recognition is provided at the APA Convocation.

1972	David B. Wexler, J.D. The Administration of Psychiatric Justice: Theory and Practice in Arizona. ARIZONA LAW REVIEW, 13(1), 1971.
1973	Birnbaum, M.D., LL.B. The Right to Treatment - Some Comments on Implementation. DUQUESNE LAW REVIEW, 10:579, 1972.
1974	Ralph Slovenko, Ph.D., J.D. Psychiatry and Law. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1974.
1975	Alexander Brooks, LL.B. Law, Psychiatry and the Mental Health System. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1974.
1976	Alan A. Stone, M.D. Mental Health and Law: A System in Transition. New York: J. Aronson, 1976.
1977	Frank W. Miller, Robert L. Dawson, George E. Dix, and Raymond I. Parnas. The Mental Health Process. 2d ed. Mineola, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1976.
1978	Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway. Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
1979	J. K. Wing. Reasoning About Madness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
1980	No award given.
1981	Walter Bromberg, M.D. The Uses of Psychiatry in the Law: A Clinical View of Forensic Psychiatry. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
1982	John T. Monahan, Ph.D. The Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior. Rockville, MD: National Institute of Mental Health, 1981.
1982	Roger Smith, Ph.D. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
1983	Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. and Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D. Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
1984	No Award given.
1985	Kenneth Tardiff, M.D. The Psychiatric Uses of Seclusion and Restraint. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1984.
1986	Robert S. Pynoos, M.D. and Spencer Eth, M.D. The Child as Witness to Homicide. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 40(2), 1984.
1987	Samuel Jan Brakel, John Parry, and Barbara A. Weiner. The Mentally Disabled and the Law. 3d ed. Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1985.
1988	Daniel W. Shuman. Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence. Colorado Springs, CO: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 1986.
1989	Robert D. Miller. Involuntary Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill in the Post-Reform Era. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1987.
1990	Richard Rogers. Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception. New York: The Guilford Press, 1988.
1991	Alan W. Scheflin, LL.M. and Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D. Trance on Trial. The Guilford Press, 1989.
1992	James C. Beck, M.D. Confidentiality Versus the Duty to Protect: Foreseeable Harm in the Practice of Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1990.
1993	Robert I. Simon, M.D. and Robert L. Sadoff, M.D. Psychiatric Malpractice: Cases and Commments for Clinicians. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1992.
1994	Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
1995	Michael L. Perlin. The Jurisprudence of the Insanity Defense. Durham, NC.: Carolina Academic Press, 1994.
1996	Paul S. Appelbaum. Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change. New York: Oxford University press, 1994.
1997	Joel Peter Eigen, Ph.D. Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad Doctors in the English Court. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
1998	Larry H. Strasburger, M.D., Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. and Archie Brodsky, B.A. On Wearing Two Hats: Role Conflict in Serving as Both Psychotherapist and Expert Witness. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 154(4), April 1997.
1999	Daniel P. Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, D. Croydon Hammond, Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
2000	Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D, Thomas Grisso, Ph.D. Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
2001	Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathe, M.D., Rosemary Purcell. Stalkers and Their Victims. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
2002	John Monahan, Henry J. Steadman, Eric Silver, Paul S. Appelbaum, Pamela Clark Robbins, Edward P. Mulvey, Loren H. Roth, Thomas Grisso, and Steven Banks. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
2003	Diane Schetky, M.D., Elissa Benedek, M.D.: Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 2002.
2004	Margaret Spinelli, M.D.: Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2003.
2005	Robert I. Simon, M.D.: Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004.
2006	Liza H. Gold, M.D.: Sexual Harassment: Psychiatric Assessment in Employment Litigation, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004.
Updated September 2005.

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