Background
Judd Marmor was born on May 2, 1910, in London, United Kingdom to Clement K. and Sarah (Levene) Marmor. In 1912 the family moved to the United States and he grew up in Chicago and later in New York.
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Judd graduated from Columbia University and received his Doctor of Medicine there in 1933.
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Judd undertook psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (present-day New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute).
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Judd Marmor was born on May 2, 1910, in London, United Kingdom to Clement K. and Sarah (Levene) Marmor. In 1912 the family moved to the United States and he grew up in Chicago and later in New York.
Judd graduated from Columbia University and received his Doctor of Medicine there in 1933. He also undertook psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (present-day New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute). In 1975 he got a Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) from Hebrew Union College.
After graduating in medicine at Columbia University while supporting himself with odd jobs and debating scholarships, Judd Marmor set up a psychiatric practice in New York. During the second world war, Judd served in the United States Navy. After the war, he moved to Los Angeles, where he became a psychoanalyst to Hollywood celebrities.
He began to treat homosexual patients who wanted to change their sexual orientation, as then recommended. He wasn't too successful. According to Eric Marcus's Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights 1945-1990 Marmor was appalled by psychiatrists' generalizations about homosexuals: "All terribly nasty, negative, disparaging things. I knew gay men and women. This view just didn't make sense to me."
Marmor served as director of the psychiatry division at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from 1965 to 1972, then launched an academic career at the University of Southern California, where he was the Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry from 1972 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985, he was an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles.
It was during his teaching days that Marmor entered the spotlight for his assertion that homosexuals were not mentally ill. He based this conclusion on his personal work with homosexuals in his private practice and on research published by UCLA psychologist Evelyn Hooker. Marmor's convincing arguments before the members of the American Psychiatric Association are credited with that organization's pivotal 1973 vote to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual; the American Psychological Association followed suit soon after this decision. Since then, this development has been viewed by many homosexual rights advocates as a major stepping stone toward the passage of pro-rights legislation.
In addition to his work as a psychiatrist and professor, Marmor was the author of Psychiatrists and Their Patients: A National Study of Private Office Practice (1975) and was an editor or coeditor of several important texts, many of which deal with homosexuality, including Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality (1965), Homosexual Behavior: A Modern Reappraisal (1980), and Growing Up before Stonewall: Life Stories of Some Gay Men (1994).
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1968APA's Board of Trustees decided to remove homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder from the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-II), thanks in large part to Marmor's efforts. Insisting that there was no evidence that homosexuality was a mental disorder, Marmor took on the difficult and often unpopular task of spearheading the initiative to depathologize sexual attraction among people of the same gender in the leading compendium of psychiatric diagnoses. The success of this initiative turned Marmor into an enduring hero of the gay-rights movement.
Marmor began to challenge publicly his colleagues and APA leaders who maintained that homosexuality was an illness rather than a normal variant of sexual behavior. His opposition to classifying homosexuality as a pathology also challenged the views of Sigmund Freud and most of the other leading psychoanalytic theorists. Marmor had tried for many years to use psychoanalytic techniques with patients who came to him to change their sexual orientation, but he saw that it was a futile endeavor.
Marmor was also influential in many other issues in psychiatry, including the trend away from pure psychoanalysis to shorter-term dynamic psychotherapy. He argued that many more people could be treated successfully in a shorter time. Marmor was also a proponent of therapy based on scientific principles, rather than theory.
Quotations:
''Society tends to treat male homosexuals as if they had a choice about their sexual orientation, when in fact they have no more choice about how they develop than heterosexuals do.''
"If we made our judgments about the mental health of heterosexuals only from the patients we saw in our office, we'd have to assume that all heterosexuals were mentally disturbed."
Marmor was the president of the American Psychiatric Association from 1975 to 1976. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the California Medical Association, the Group for Advancement Psychiatry, the American Fund for Psychiatry, the Southern California Psychiatric Society, the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, Los Angeles County Medical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Judd loved tennis and played three times a week into his early 90s. With his wife, Katherine Marmor, he began collecting American art in the 1950s, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns. Prints from the collection were exhibited at the Stanford University Museum of Art in 1997.
Marmor was married to Katherine Marmor. The couple had a son, Michael.