Lawrence Hartmann, M.D.

2007 John Fryer Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Homosexuality and Ignorance

Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., is a Past President of the American Psychiatric Association (1991-1992); a psychoanalytic and pragmatic child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a long-tern member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Born in Vienna, he grew up in New York City and attended Harvard College and then Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Harvard for Medical School, and attended the University of California at San Francisco for a pediatric internship, and then Harvard again (Massachusetts Mental Health Center) for a residency on psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. He went on to teach child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry at Harvard for over 35 years. He ran a prominent child and adolescent psychiatry clinic and a school consultation and treatment program, and wrote on psychotherapy, play, language, human rights, homosexuality, torture, apartheid, humane values, and biopsychosocial integration. Dr. Hartmann's interest in dynamic and social, psychiatry in biopsychosocial integration, in women, children, minorities, homosexuality, and human rights led him to much activity and several leaderships positions in both child and adult psychiatric organizations. He helped to reform the APA in the 1970s, helped the APA remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual in 1973, and has been part of many subsequent APA studies, decisions, and position statements.