Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

developmental psychiatry, genetic psychiatry, Michael Rutter, social psychiatry

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Michael Rutter was born August 15th, 1933 to Winifred and Llewellyn Rutter in Lebanon, where his father was working as a doctor. He returned with his parents to England when he was 3-years-old. In 1940, at the age of 6-years-old, Rutter and his younger sister were evacuated to North America due to fear of German invasion of the British Isles. He and his sister were taken in by different families in the United States and only living together a few months near the end of their four year stay abroad. Rutter denied feeling separated from his parents during his stay abroad, indicating that his parents wrote letters regularly.

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