Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, MSt, DFAPA

Dr Hatters Friedman serves as the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is editor of Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate, which was written by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Committee on Psychiatry and the Law. She was awarded the 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association. She is a coeditor of Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry.

Articles by Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, MSt, DFAPA

The 1994 death of Nicole Brown Simpson and the subsequent highly publicized murder trial of her ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, brought increasing national attention to the problems of domestic violence and intimate partner murder. In 2000, there were 1247 female victims of intimate partner murder in the United States.1 Fully one third of female murder victims were killed by an intimate partner.1 On the positive side, rates of female victimization by intimate partner violence and murder appear to have decreased in the recent past.

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