Albert Deutsch was born on October 23, 1905,[1] on the lower East Side of New York City to immigrant parents from Latvia.

In the end, the book The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times was published in 1937 with Deutsch the author.

From 1941 to 1947, he was a columnist for PM, writing on social aspects of health care.

In 1949, he received the Albert Lasker Award presented by the National Committee against Mental Illness.

Deutsch died June 18, 1961, in England while attending a conference hosted by the World Federation for Mental Health.