Leo Henry Bartemeier (September 12, 1895 – October 9, 1982) was an American physician, psychoanalyst, and educator.
Bartemeier was born on September 12, 1895, in Muscatine, Iowa, into a Roman Catholic family.
In 1945, during World War II, he was Chairman of a Commission to study combat exhaustion in Europe, and served as a consultant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General.
After 1944, he was an associate professor at Wayne State University Medical School (1946-1950), director of the Veterans Psychiatric Clinic at the Harper Hospital (1946-1950), and the first visiting professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan (1950-1954).
In 1952, when the American Medical Association established a Council on Mental Health, he was its first chairman.
The U.S. Congress authorized the Joint Commission to make recommendations to improve mental health programs.
He received one of the highest award from the Catholic Church: a Knighthood in the Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
Richter, Curt P., and Bartemeier, Leo H. "Decerebrate Rigidity of the Sloth", Brain, 49(2) (1926): 207–225.
Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535–1860: A History Presented in Selected English Texts.
A Physician in the General Practice of Psychiatry: The Selected Papers of Leo H. Bartemeier.
The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Hope: Psychiatry's Commitment: Papers Presented to Leo H. Bartemeier on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday.