In Memoriam - Lawrence Z. Freedman
An internationally recognized authority on the psychiatry of aggression, violence, crime and terrorism and the interactions between psychiatry and the law, Lawrence Z. Freedman, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Chicago, died from a stroke at his home in Chicago on October 6, 2004. He was 85.
Freedman was a pioneer in applying the tools of psychiatry and psychoanalysis to emerging social, legal, political and behavioral topics, ranging from natural childbirth and the impact of television on children to political assassinations and serial killers. An authority on the relationship between mental illness and legal responsibility, he helped draft the Model Penal Code, adopted by the American Law Institute in 1962 to help state legislatures update their criminal codes. Later, as his interests turned to the psychiatry of political violence, he served on President Lyndon Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. At the request of the Secret Service, he developed a profile of potential presidential assassins.
Born Sept. 4, 1919, in Gardner, Mass., Lawrence Zelic Freedman earned his B.S. in 1940 and his M.D. in 1944 from Tufts University. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Navy and the Navy Reserve Medical Corps, rising to the rank of Lieutenant, while beginning his residency training in psychiatry at Yale Medical School and the New Haven Hospital. He joined the faculty at Yale in 1949 as an instructor in psychiatry and mental hygiene and became an assistant professor in 1951 and an associate professor in 1954.
In 1961, he became the Foundations Fund research professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his academic career.
The author of more than 100 publications and the author or editor of several books, Freedman served as a consultant to local, national and international organizations concerned with crime, violence and psychiatry, including the Chicago Board of Health, the American Law Institute, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and the United Nations. Although he retired from the University in 1985, he maintained a private practice in psychoanalysis.
A resident of the University of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, Freedman is survived by his former wife Dorothy, a writer and former teacher at the University's Laboratory Schools, and their five children.
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