Jacob H. Friedman was an American psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

, one of the pioneers of geriatric psychiatry and an authority on marriage phobia. He was a professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. It is a not-for-profit, private, nonsectarian medical school located on the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Morris Park neighborhood of the borough of the Bronx of New York City...

 and published over one hundred peer-reviewed papers in his field.

Friedman established a geriatric psychiatry program at Lebanon Hospital in 1961 and later served as chairman of the neuropsychiatry department at Fordham Hospital. He also headed the geriatric psychiatry program at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital.

Friedman's expert testimony at the civil trial of cartoonist Frank Moser, accused of running down the son of Lindbergh

Lindbergh

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 baby kidnapper Richard Bruno Hauptmann, proved decisive in securing a verdict for Hauptmann's widow.

Friedman graduated from City College

City College of New York

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 and Tulane Medical School (1929). He did additional training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.