Martin Roth

Sir Martin Roth (6 November 1917 – 26 September 2006) was a British psychiatrist, academic, and researcher. He was a leading figure in British psychiatry, especially in the study of mental illness and mental disorders of the elderly. He was the co-author of Clinical Psychiatry, an influential textbook that was used in England from 1954 through the 1980s.

Early life Roth was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on 6 November 1917. He was the son of a synagogue cantor. After two years in 1950, he moved to Graylingwell Hospital, psychiatric hospital in Chichester, Sussex, where he was the director of clinical research.

Roth authored more than 400 papers that were published in scholarly journals. and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001.

Personal life Roth married Constance Heller in 1945. The couple had three daughters.

Roth died on 26 September 2006 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire at the age of 88 years. He was buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.

Selected publications

Author

Clinical Psychiatry. with Willy Mayer-Gross and Eliot Slater. London: Cassell, 1954. The Reality of Mental Illness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. CAMDEX—the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly. with Felicia A. Huppert, C. Q. Mountjoy, and Elizabeth Tym. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Ageing and the Aged in Contemporary Society. Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, 1993. Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.

Editor

Psychiatry, Human Rights and the Law. with Robert Bluglass. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Handbook of Anxiety, vol. 1: Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives. with Russell Noyes Jr. and Graham D Burrows. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988. Handbook of Anxiety, vol. 2: Classification, Etiological Factors, and Associated Disturbances. with Russell Noyes Jr. and Graham D Burrows. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988. Handbook of Anxiety, vol. 3: The Neurobiology of Anxiety. with Russell Noyes Jr. and Graham D Burrows. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Handbook of Anxiety, vol. 4: The Treatment of Anxiety. with Russell Noyes Jr. and Graham D Burrows. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Handbook of Anxiety, vol. 5: Contemporary Issues and Prospects for Research in Anxiety Disorders. with Russell Noyes Jr. and Graham D Burrows. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1992.