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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Judd Marmor papers
Creator:
Marmor, Judd
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1795
Physical Description:
35.15 Linear Feet
(71 boxes, 1 half document box, 4 oversize flat boxes, and 1 map
folder)
Date (inclusive): 1923-2003
Abstract: Judah (Judd) Marmor, M.D. (1910-2003),
Los Angeles psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, acknowledged for his leadership role in the
movement to declassify homosexuality as a mental disease, which was removed from DSM-II in
1973. The collection contains Dr. Marmor's research and reference materials, documents
related to his professional and academic life, including his presidency of the American
Psychiatric Association (APA); correspondence with colleagues; and some personal
items.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIO AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and
unprocessed audio and audiovisual materials. For information about the access status of the
material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical
Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed audio and
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Box 74 of this collection is restricted; biographical information from patient records may
not be disclosed.
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and Accountability Act) or for which there is sensitive health information, please submit a
research protocol to Library Special Collections at speccoll@library.ucla.edu.
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All
other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Judd Marmor papers (Collection Number 1795). Department of
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Judd Marmor, 1999. Subsequent gift from the estate in 2004.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make
them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and
resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level
of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts
more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to
national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Amelia Acker, with assistance from Kelley Bachli, in the Center For Primary
Research and Training (CFPRT), March 2008.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6088506
Judah (Judd) Marmor, M.D. (1910-2003) was an important Los Angeles psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, acknowledged for his leadership role in the movement to declassify
homosexuality as a mental disease, which was removed from DSM-II in 1973.
Born on May 1, 1910 in London, England, Dr. Marmor grew up in Chicago and New York. He
attended Columbia College as a Pulitzer scholar and graduated from the Columbia College of
Physicians and Surgeons in 1933. Afterwards he began his postgraduate training in neurology
and psychiatry and went into private psychiatric practice. Dr. Marmor began his
psychoanalytic training four years later at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in
1937.
After serving as a Senior Attending Surgeon (Lt.) in the Navy during WWII, Dr. Marmor and
his wife Katherine moved to Los Angeles where he began as the Senior Attending Psychiatrist
at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in 1947. At this time he began visiting professorships in
psychology and social welfare at the University of Southern California (USC) and the
University of California, Los Angles (UCLA). In 1952, Dr. Marmor was appointed Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and a year later began as a Training
Analyst for the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1965 Dr. Marmor assumed the
position of Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and in
1972 became the first Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry Chair at the USC School of
Medicine.
Dr. Marmor rose to prominence early in his career in academic and professional psychiatric
and psychoanalytic communities; he was known as a talented educator, prolific writer and a
compassionate clinician. He was respected for his analytic work with Hollywood celebrities,
his strong commitment to the civil and women's rights movements, and was also known to the
public as Abigail Van Buren's mental health expert in "Dear Abby" advice columns.
Judd Marmor was also a leading figure in the movement to declassify homosexuality as a
mental disease. Dr. Marmor worked for many years with homosexual patients beginning in the
1940s, and his first book Sexual Inversion and early publications regarding the subject were
some of the first to feature biopsychosocial approaches to the issue of homosexuality. In
1967, Evelyn Hooker, chairwoman of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force
on Homosexuality, nominated Judd to be a member. The NIMH Task Force produced an influential
final report two years later, the recommendations of which would have far-reaching effects
for social policy, training, treatment, and government funded research.
From 1970 to 1973 annual APA conferences were disrupted by protests from gay activists.
Shortly after Dr. John Fryer's now famous "Dr. H. Anonymous" presentation at the annual APA
conference in Dallas in May of 1972, the Nomenclature Committee, Dr. Marmor then the Vice
President and Dr. John P. Spiegel the President-elect of the APA met with gay activist
groups to discuss the category of homosexuality as it appeared in the Diagnostics and
Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In 1973, a DSM-II development committee led by
Dr. Robert Spitzer put forth a vote to the APA Board of Trustees, and a year later the APA
membership would vote to remove homosexuality from the DSM-II. Dr. Marmor had long been an
outspoken critic of classifying homosexuality as a mental illness and was influential in
many historic events that ended discrimination against homosexuals in the psychiatric
community.
Dr. Marmor sat on numerous journal editorial boards and boards of directors, and was the
president and/or vice-president of six professional medical organizations and societies;
including the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, American Psychiatric Association, Group
for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and
Southern California Psychoanalytic Society. He was the principle author and editor of 8
books and over 350 scientific journal articles featuring a spectrum of psychiatric and
psychoanalytic topics.
Judd and his wife Katherine, a clinical psychologist, were also collectors of contemporary
art. Both sat on the Contemporary Art Council board of directors at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA) and were known to have lent and donated artworks to LACMA and
MOCA.
Dr. Marmor died on December 16, 2003 at the age of 93.
Collection consists of Dr. Marmor's professional papers, including his research and
reference files by subject; lectures and manuscripts; correspondence with colleagues; and
materials related to his involvement in a variety of professional and academic organizations
and institutions, including the American Psychiatric Association and the Southern California
Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. The collection does not contain any of Dr. Marmor's
patient records.
The collection is arranged into seven series; alphabetically by topic, title or author's
last name.
Abbreviations Used in Container List:
- APA = American Psychiatric Association
- DSM = Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders
- GAP = Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
- LACMA = Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- NIMH = National Institute of Mental Health
- SCPS = Southern California Psychoanalytic Society
- UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
- USC = University of Southern California
- USPHS = United States Public Health Service.
The One National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles have 4 boxes (approximately 1.7
linear feet) of Dr. Marmor's research, legal consulting, and subject files on homosexuality,
including correspondence with Evelyn Hooker; photographs with gay activists at the 1972
annual APA meeting; and litigation proceedings where he was called to participate as an
expert witness.
Judd and Katherine's son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Jane Marmor manage the Marmor
Foundation which has donated a contemporary art collection to the Cantor Art Center at
Stanford University.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Psychiatrists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- Faculty --
Archives.
Psychoanalysts -- California -- Los Angeles --
Archives.