Lawrence Hartmann, M.D.

Dr. Hartmann was one of several young psychiatrists who, in 1970, in the wake of APA's nonresponse to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State, founded the National Committee for Concerned Psychiatrists (CFCP), which quickly organized a good deal of support, changed key APA ByLaws, and for six years or so recruited and successfully boosted distinguished progressive psychiatrists to run for and serve on the APA Board of Trustees, and (6 or 7 of them) to serve as APA Presidents. These included, among others, A. Freedman, John Spiegel, M.D., Judd Marmor, M.D., Viola Bernard, M.D., Jack Weinberg, M.D., Michelle Mitchell-Batemen, M.D., and Alan Stone, M.D.— all of whom had social psychiatric stances that were essential to passing the APA's strong December 1973 decision to de-list homosexuality per se as a mental illness.