In recognition of her edited book, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate (2019), Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, earned the American Psychiatric Association/American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law’s 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. The award-winning book delves into each of the types of murder that can occur within families, from killing of newborns to elderly mercy killings.
Hatters Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and deputy editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.