Background
Robitscher, Jonas was born on October 28, 1920 in New York City. Son of Jonas and Elsa (Eisinger) Robitscher.
Robitscher, Jonas was born on October 28, 1920 in New York City. Son of Jonas and Elsa (Eisinger) Robitscher.
Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1942. Juris Doctor, George Washington University, 1948, Doctor of Medicine 1955.
Intern, George Washington University, 1955-1956. Psychiatric resident Institute Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1956-1959. Psychoanalytic training Institute Philadelphia Association, Psychoanalysis, 1970.
Practice medicine, specializing in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and forensic psychiatry, Philadelphia, 1959-1963, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1963-1972.
Lecturer law and psychiatry Villanova U. Law School, 1965-1972. Assistant professor clinical psychiatry University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, 1968-1972.
Henry Luce professor of law and behavioral science Emory University, Atlanta, 1972-1981. Program director social-legal uses of forensic psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health, 1970-1972, principal investigator dangerousness in psychiatric commitment study, 1974-1981.
Fellow American College Legal Medicine Institute Society, Ethics and Life Sciences, American Psychiatric Association (commission on judicial action 1974-1981, Isaac Ray award). Member American Bar Association (commission on mentally disabled 1973-1981), American Academy Psychiatry and the Law (councillor), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Jean Begeman, June 1, 1950. Children: January, Christine, John.