Michael Rutter

Michael Rutter

Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter CBE FRS FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci (born 15 August 1933) is the first person to be appointed professor of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom. He has been described as the "father of child psychology". Currently he is professor of developmental psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, a post he has held since 1966. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Rutter as the 68th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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1933-08-15

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Nature.com

Michael Rutter (1933–2021)

Child psychiatrist who transformed understanding of autism. Uta Frith is emeritus professor of cognitive development at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Francesca Happé. Francesca Happé is professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. You have full access to this...

MENTAL HEALTH2021-11-22

The Guardian

Letter: Sir Michael Rutter obituary

Sir Michael Rutter’s insights into the positive impact of good parenting of children who have suffered deprivation and abuse in early infancy have been hugely valuable in the fields of adoption and fostering in the UK. Not only in the orphanages of Romania in the 90s have children experienced neglectful and shameful care. His work gives hope to practitioners and carers looking after children who have never felt secure or loved.

OBITUARIES2021-11-18

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Legendary Child Psychiatrist Michael Rutter Dies

Michael Rutter, a pioneering child psychiatrist, died at the age of 88 on October 23. He is most widely known for his work uncovering the fact that autism has a genetic component and his practice of talking directly to his young patients—a novel approach at the time. Rutter was born...

MENTAL HEALTH2021-11-10

Antelope Valley Press

Michael Rutter, pioneering child psychiatrist, is dead at 88

Dr. Michael Rutter, a British child psychiatrist whose many transformative studies included one that demonstrated the genetics of autism and another that assessed how poor treatment suffered by Romanian children in orphanages affected them after they were adopted by English families, died Oct. 23 at his home in Dulwich, a suburb of London. He was 88.

HEALTH2021-11-09

The Guardian

Sir Michael Rutter obituary

Child psychiatrist who revolutionised his field and led breakthroughs in our understanding of autism

OBITUARIES2021-11-08

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Michael Rutter, Pioneering Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 88

He entered the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1950, planing to be a basic practitioner and be a part of his father’s apply. But he turned fascinated by neurology and neurosurgery after which by psychiatry, impressed by a professor, Wilhelm Mayer-Gross, a outstanding psychiatrist who had fled Nazi Germany.

MENTAL HEALTH2021-11-07

spectrumnews.org

Remembering child psychiatrist Michael Rutter

Sir Michael Rutter, the child psychiatrist who overturned outmoded ideas about autism’s origins, died 23 October at age 88. In July, Rutter had retired from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London in the United Kingdom, where he had worked for 55 years. During that time,...

MENTAL HEALTH2021-11-01

Telegraph

Professor Sir Michael Rutter, preeminent expert in child psychology who ranged from the genetic basis of autism to attachment theory – obituary

Professor Sir Michael Rutter, who has died aged 88, was the first ever professor of child psychiatry in the UK and was particularly known for his research into the early years of children’s emotional development. In the postwar years, this field was dominated by the attachment theory of John Bowlby,...

KIDS2021-10-28

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Michael Rutter, 59 passed away Saturday, October 2, 2021 at Genesis Hospital. He was born October 24, 1961 in Athens to the late Lester and Hearcel Josephine Koon Rutter. Michael loved to fish, hunt and visit with Vanessa and Jerry Dunwoody. Surviving are his siblings: Janet Potts, Dave (Betty Nutt)...

ZANESVILLE, OH2021-10-04

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NW200 Superbike classics: Michael Rutter shows Guy Martin the ropes at NW200

Michael Rutter occupied the top step of the podium in 2008 - riding the machine he rode on British short circuits which bore the name of the North West 200 to help publicise the event. He outmanoeuvred previous leaders Guy Martin and John McGuinness on the last lap to give...

MOTORSPORTS2021-05-12

heraldmailmedia.com

Michael Rutter, 69

Michael Elmer Rutter, 69, of Boonsboro, MD, formerly of Frederick, MD, entered into eternal rest at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown on February 14, 2021 after an extended illness. Michael was born on March 5, 1951 in Wilmington, DE, to the late Elmer K. and Alma C. (Schafer) Rutter. He...

HAGERSTOWN, MD2021-02-21