Judd Marmor

American psychiatrist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican psychiatrist
PlacesUnited States of America
wasPsychiatrist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Healthcare
Gender
Male
Birth2 May 1910, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Death16 December 2003Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A. (aged 93 years)
The details

Biography

Judd Marmor (2 May 1910 – 16 December 2003) was an American psychiatrist known for his role in removing homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Life and career

Marmor was born in London on 2 May 1910. He graduated from Columbia University and received his medical degree there in 1933, then moved to Los Angeles in 1946.

Marmor and Evelyn Hooker began collaborating on depathologizing homosexuality in the mid-1960s. She contributed a chapter to his 1965 book Sexual Inversion and recruited him for a task force on homosexuality sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

He served as director of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California.

He died on 16 December 2003.

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