Martin D. Plutzer, M.D.
Staff Psychiatrist
Martin D. Plutzer, M.D., Staff Psychiatrist
Dr. Martin D. Plutzer, M.D., Staff Psychiatrist, has over 35 years of psychiatric experience and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association. Throughout his career, he has given numerous presentations on topics such as bioethics, infantilism, management of dying patients, emotional problems of the unemployed, psychological aspects of middle age, stress management, careers in psychiatry, coping with chronic illness, burnout, the concept of mental health, the doctor/patient relationship, drug therapy of psychiatric illness, management of sleep disorders and suicide.
He currently serves as Associate Professor of Psychiatry for Drexel University College of Medicine and has maintained a private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis since 1974. Dr. Plutzer has also served as a supervisor of a psychiatric intensive care unit, director of a general psychiatry clinic, and medical director of a women’s psychiatric unit. He has been teaching and supervising medical students and psychiatric residents for 35 years.
Dr. Plutzer has been awarded the Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D., Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education by the American Psychiatric Association, and has been named Outstanding Teacher of the Year by Medical College of Pennsylvania Psychiatry Residents seven times. In May 2006, he was presented with the Dean’s Special Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at Friend’s Hospital by Drexel University College of Medicine.
Dr. Plutzer is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y., and Doctor of Medicine from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh.
Publications & Presentations
Publications
Plutzer, Martin, “The Elective Within the Required Psychiatric Clerkship”, American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 136:5, pp. 706-708, May 1979.
Plutzer, Martin, Letter to the Editor of Private Practice Vol. 15:4, April 1983 - Thought on “Revolt Against Flexner”.
Plutzer, Martin, “The Extremely Passive Spouse.” Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. Vol. 18:7, pp. 161-176, July 1984.
Text Book Chapters
Plutzer, Martin, Chapter 26, “Suicide” in Behavioral Science for Medical Students, pp. 349-357, Williams & Wilkens, 1993.
Unpublished Publications
Plutzer, Martin, “The Student-As-Consultant Case Conference”
Report Of Scientific Meetings
Plutzer, Martin, “The Revenge Motive in the Primal Scene”, Jacob Aflow in Journal of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, Vol. III, No. 4, pp. 163-165, 1976.
Plutzer, Martin, “Omnipotence and Reality: The Story of Moses”, Reporter for the Newsletter of a Presentation by Allen Eisnetz, M.D. to the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, April 18,1986.
Published Letters
Plutzer, Martin, “Why a Man Chooses To Live as a Woman”, The New York Times, pp. 22, October 22, 1994.
Plutzer, Martin, “Testosterone’s Uses”, The New Yorker, pp. 16, August 19 & 26, 2002.
Plutzer, Martin, “Family Therapy and A Physician’s Suicide”, American Journal of Psychiatry, 161:12, December 2004.
Presentations
Grand Rounds - Medical College of Pennsylvania
Department of Psychiatry
“Can Your Psychotherapist Be Your Friend?”
March, 1977
Grand Rounds - Hahnemann Medical College
Department of Psychiatry
“The humanitarian-Neutrality Controversy in Psychotherapy”
February, 1978
Grand Rounds - Medical College of Pennsylvania
Department of Psychiatry
Case Presentation with Bioethics Commentary and
Discussion
October, 1981
Grand Rounds - Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahnemann University
Department of Psychiatry
“Infantilism: Paraphilia Fetish, Alternative Lifestyle or What?”
October, 2000
Bioethics Forum - Medical College of Pennsylvania
“Anatomy in Ballet”
March, 1981
Bioethics Forum - Medical College of Pennsylvania
“Superhero Doctors: TV Myths and Realities”
October, 1981
Bioethics Forum - Medical College of Pennsylvania
“Management of Dying Patients”
April 19, 1983
WCAU Radio Medical College Report, “Emotional Problems of the Unemployed”, January 1978
WCAU Radio Medical College Report, “Psychological Aspects of Middle Age”, February 1979
CBS Radio HEALTH SCIENCE AND YOU with Charles Crawford, “Emotional Problems of the Unemployed”, May 1982
KYW-TV PEOPLE ARE TALKING, “Emotional Problems of the Unemployed”, May 1982
NBC Radio, Chicago HEALTH AIR, “Emotional Consequences of Unemployment”, June 1982
WWDB-FM Radio FRANK FORD SHOW, “Emotional Consequences of Unemployment”, July 1982
WIFI Radio WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK, with Ruth Weisberg, “Stress Management”,
October 24, 1982
Philadelphia Business and Professional Women’s Club, “Stress Management and Work”
November 11, 1982
Beaver College “Careers in the Helping Professions”, “Careers in Psychiatry”
November, 1982
TEN AROUND TOWN Channel 10 TV, “Burnout” January 29, 1983
Multiple Sclerosis Society Meeting, “Coping with Chronic Illness”, February 9, 1983
Lower Merion Education Association In-Service Program, Workshop Leader, “Coping with Stress”, February 21, 1983
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Premedical and Science Internship Lecture Series, “Psychiatric Aspects of Chronic Illness”, June 21, 1983
CORO Staff Meeting, “Burnout”, January 5, 1984
A.P. Orleans Vocational Center, “Cooling Burnout”, February 28, 1984
Havertown Rotary Club, “Cooling Burnout”, March 5, 1984
Philadelphia Ostomy Association, “Psychological Aspects of Chronic Illness”, march 11, 1984
Surgical Grand Rounds, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, “The Anxious Surgical Patient”
February 9, 1985
Discussant of lecture by Dr. Joseph Margolis, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, The Medical College of
Pennsylvania, “The Concept of Mental Health”, May 20, 1985
Consumer Oriented Medical Practice Seminar, M.C.P., Faculty Member & Presentation, “The Doctor/Patient Relationship”, March 15, 1986
Annual Meeting, Association of Directors of Medial Student, Education in Psychiatry Panel Member: “The Directorship: Problems and Prospects”, Denver Colorado - June 18, 1987
Grand Rounds - Cooper Hospital, Clinical Case Conference, March 1988
Presenter in Educational Program in Drug Therapy of Psychiatric Illness for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, June 11, 12, 18, 19, 1990
Presenter in Educational Program on Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatric Practice for Wallace Pharmaceuticals, August 21, 1990
Annual Meeting: Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, “Teaching Behavioral Science in Small Groups”, Tucson, Arizona, June 14, 1990
Presentations (cont.)
Annual Meeting: Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, “Resolved That Psychiatry Henceforth Desist From Teaching Behavioral Science in the Pre-Clinical Years”, Asheville, North Carolina, June 13, 1991
Psychiatry Interest Group: Discussion of video, Inner Madness, August 23, 1995
Psychiatry Interest Group: Discussion, Why Do Men Commit Suicide, September 1996
