An Interview with Judd Marmor, MD

Dr. Judd Marmor has long espoused progressive views on gays and lesbians. As a well established and highly awarded member of the psychiatric profession, he was a powerful voice in the move to depathologize homosexuality in the early 1970s. Then, as now, he has courageously held controversial positions to defend the humanity and civil rights of gays, lesbians, and others who suffer from being marginalized by society. Dr. Marmor was born in London, England, in 1910 and emigrated with his family to Chicago in 1912. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and continued on to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He undertook psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. From 1965 to 1972, he served as Director of the Division of Psychiatry at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was the Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine from 1972 to 1980. He is now Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Marmor has been a long-standing leader in psychiatry, having been