The Annual Max L. Hutt Lecture is sponsored by the Psychology Training Program of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. The lecture series has been made possible by a generous endowment from Max Hutt and his family to be used for a clinical psychology program that furthers research and theoretical exploration.
About Max L. Hutt, Ph.D.
In the 1940s, Max Hutt was a clinical psychologist with the United States Army. Following World War II, he was considered to be one of the leading clinical psychologists in the nation and was hired by Don Marquis in 1946 to join the faculty in the Department of Psychology on central campus as a half-time Associate Professor. As such he was among the first - if not THE first - clinically trained faculty member teaching clinical psychology. Max Hutt was affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and worked at the Neropsychiatric Institute in the 1950s.
Both Jerry Hover, known to many of us as one of the VA psychologists, and who was in the first clinical psychology class in 1946, and our own Marvin Brandwin, who was in the second clinical psychology class, remember Max as an outstanding and charismatic teacher and a "master" of psychodynamic psychotherapy; he also believed he could diagnose many organic brain syndromes using the Bender-Gestalt and the Rorschach - in fact, he believed the Rorschach could do anything. He also had great faith in the ability of the Bender-Gestalt to diagnose brain damage and Max was also a consultant to the Department of Neurology during his affiliation with the medical school. Jerry describes his teacher as physically small but a package of power - a "dynamite guy" in Jerry's words.
Max left the University of Michigan in May of 1960 to take a position at the University of Detroit, but he clearly continued to have an affection for this department as manifested by his generous endowment for trainees in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Michigan.
Past Lectures
2023
Jennifer Manly, PhD
2022
Sandra Graham-Berman, PhD
2021
“Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat - The Science of a Diverse Community”
Claude M. Steele, Ph.D., M.A., M.Ed.
Professor, Psychology
Stanford University
2020
"Four Years into the UM DEI Strategic Plan: Lessons Learned and Ideas for the Future"
Robert Sellers, Ph.D.
Charles D. Moody Collegiate Professor of Psychology and
Vice Provost for Equity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer
Office of the Provost
2019
“Cognitive Neuroscience of Obesity: From Group Differences to Prediction...to Personalized Differences to Prediction...to Personalized Interventions? Interventions?”
Cary Savage, PhD
Director, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior
Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2018
“Controlling Perception and Memory: Basic Science and Translation”
John Jonides, PhD
Edward E. Smith Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Co-Director, functional MRI Center
Senior Editor, Psychological Science
University of Michigan
2017
“Transactions Among Biological, Personality, and Learning Processes for Addiction Risk”
Gregory T. Smith, PhD
Professor and University Research Professor
University of Kentucky
2016
Understanding and Screening for Teen Suicide Risk: What's Known and What's New
Cheryl King, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Director of the Mary A. Rackham Institute
University of Michigan
2015
Meditation, Aging, and the Brain
Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona
2014
The Aging Brain and Implications for Maintaining Cognitive Health
Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area, Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2013
Positive Applied Neuropsychology: Convergence of Big Data with Health and Well-Being
Robert Bilder, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology; Chief of Medical Psychology - Neuropsychology and Director of the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
University of California at Los Angeles
2012
Development Perspectives on Serious Mental Disorder: What do Schizophrenics and Psychiatrists Have in Common?
Arnold Sameroff, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
University of Michigan
2011
Longitudinal Consequences of Extreme Prematurity
H. Gerry Taylor, Ph.D. ABPP/CN
Professor of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University Child Developmental Center
2010
Social Relations and Health: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Toni Antonucci, Ph.D
Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice President for Research
University of Michigan
2009
Current Crossroads in Diagnosis of Early Alzheimer's Disease
Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer, Ph.D. ABPP
Director, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Durham, NC
2008
Dimensions, Prototypes, and Spectrums: Toward DSM-V
Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
2007
Positive Psychology
Christopher Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2006
Comprehensive Treatment for ADHD: Perspectives on Sequencing Treatments and Balancing Risks and Benefits of Medication and Behavioral Treatments
William E Pelham Jr, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry
University of Buffalo
2005
Applications of Decision Theory to Mental Health Settings
Frank Yates, Ph.D.
Director of the Decision Consortium and Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan
2004
PTSD: Recent Research on Military and Non-Military Trauma
Terence Keane, Ph.D.
ACOS for Research and Chief, Psychology Service, VA Boston & Professor and Vice Chairman for Research in Psychiatry
Boston Univ School of Medicine
2003
Schizophrenia and the Brain
Douglas Whitman, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Training
Wayne State University
2002
The Stage Model and Progress in Behavioral Therapies
Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D.
Director, Psychotherapy Development Research Center
Yale University
2001
Autism: Early Recognition and Diagnosis Across the Lifespan
Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Director, Autism and Communication Disorders Center
University of Michigan
2000
From Centrencephalon to Chromosome: Studies of the Attention Deficit in the Absence Epilepsies
Allan F. Mirsky, Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
National Institute of Mental Health
1999
Bridging the Chasm Between Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Research: An Integrated, Multi-Level Approach to Health Science
Norman B. Anderson, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
National Institute of Mental Health
1998
Learning and Teaching in a Medical School
Wilbert J. McKeachie, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology
University of Michigan
1997
Empirically Supported Treatments and Practice Guidelines: Not Yet Ideal
Peter E. Nathan, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of Iowa
