Lawrence Hartmann, M.D.

Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., served as vice president of the American Psychiatric Association and president from 1991 to 1992. He was one of several young psychiatrists who, in 1970, in the wake of the APA's nonresponse to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State, founded the National Committee for Concerned Psychiatrists (CFCP), which quickly organized a good deal of support, changed key APA bylaws, and, for six years or so, recruited and successfully boosted distinguished progressive psychiatrists to run for and serve on the APA Board of Trustees and (6 or 7 of them) to serve as APA Presidents. These included, among others, Alfred Freedman, M.D.; John Spiegel, M.D.; Judd Marmor, M.D.; Viola Bernard, M.D.; Jack Weinberg, M.D.; Michelle Mitchell-Bateman, M.D.; and Alan Stone, M.D., all of whom had social psychiatric stances that were essential to passing the APA's strong December 1973 decision to de-list homosexuality per se as a mental illness.