Susan Hatters Friedman, MD

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD is a forensic psychiatrist and reproductive psychiatrist. She serves as Professor of Psychiatry, Reproductive Biology, Pediatrics, and Law. She also maintains her affiliation with the University of Auckland (New Zealand) after working overseas for seven years. Dr. Friedman is past President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), and has served as Chair of the Law and Psychiatry committee at the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). Dr. Friedman was honored to receive the Distinguished Alumna Award from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in 2019.She has also received the AAPL award for the Best Teacher in a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, the Red AAPL award for outstanding service to organized forensic psychiatry, and the Association of Women Psychiatrists Marian Butterfield early career psychiatrist award for her contributions to women’s mental health. She has published more than 100 articles (including in World Psychiatry and the American Journal of Psychiatry). Her research has primarily focused on the interface of women’s mental health and forensic psychiatry, including notably child murder by mothers. Susan is the Editor of the recent GAP book entitled Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate for which she recently received the Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and serves as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.