Sir Michael Rutter, PhD

Michael Rutter was born in Lebanon and was educated in both the United States and England.  He is currently a professor of developmental psychotherapy at the University of London 's Institute of Psychiatry and is listed as an entry on Wikipedia.  His research has explored resilience in relation to stress, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, reading difficulties, psychiatric genetics, neuropsychiatry, infantile autism, effects of deprivation on Romanian orphan adoptees and psychiatric epidemiology. 

Michael Rutter was elected to the Royal Society in 1987 and knighted in 1992.  He is a founding member of Academia Europea and the Academy of Medical Sciences.  He is also a member of the US Insitute of Medicine and was president of the Society for Research on Child Development.  He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia.

Most cited article (710 times)

Rutter, M. (1987). Psychological Resilience and Protective Mechanisms. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 57(3), 316-331.

Recent Publications:

Rutter, M. (2006). Psychological effects of early insitutional rearing.  In P. J. Marshall & N. A. Fox (Eds.) The development of social engagement: Neurobiological Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.