He amassed further evidence, addressed the many different underlying social and psychological mechanisms and showed that Bowlby was only partially right and often for the wrong reasons. Rutter is an honorary member of the British Academy and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1983 he gave the annual Swarthmore Lecture to a large gathering of British Quakers, attending their Yearly Meeting, later published as A Measure of Our Values: goals and dilemmas in the upbringing of children. The results yielded some reason for optimism.[7]. Michael Rutter (1981) argued that if a child fails to develop an attachment this is privation, whereas deprivation refers to the loss of or damage to an attachment. Later he attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and then Bootham School in York,[5][6] from where he continued his studies at the University of Birmingham Medical School. [13], In June 2014, Rutter was the guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific, in which he described himself as a Nontheist Quaker, as well as revealing that, at the age of 80, he still worked each day "from about half past eight until about four".[14]. WC2R 2LS Rutter, M. by Dunn, J. Rutter, M. (1979) Maternal deprivation 1972-1978: new findings, new concepts, new approaches, Child Development 50: 283-305. The British Journal of Psychiatry credits him with a number of "breakthroughs"[8] in these areas. Hartman, L (2003). London Volume 2: Classic Papers by Professor Sir Michael Rutter. He has been described as the "father of child psychology". Kolvin, I (1999). Michael Rutter is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Among Rutter's research topics was his extended interest in maternal attachment theory as studied in his book The Qualities of Mothering from 1974. The importance of these refinements of the maternal deprivation hypothesis was to reposition it as a "vulnerability factor" rather than a causative agent, with a number of varied influences determining which path a child will take. Rutter has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyväskylä, Warwick, East Anglia, Cambridge and Yale. November 2016, Severe psychosocial deprivation in early childhood is associated with hyper-methylation across a region spanning the transcription start-site of CYP2E1 7 June 2016, Early severe institutional deprivation is associated with a persistent variant of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical presentation, developmental continuities and life circumstances in the English and Romanian Adoptees study 6 June 2016, Heritability of autism spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis of twin studies 27 December 2015, The risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children exposed to maternal smoking during pregnancy - a re-examination using a sibling design 28 October 2015, Annual Research Review: Threats to the validity of child psychiatry and psychology 19 September 2015, Vulnerability and resilience after early institutional care: The Greek Metera study August 2015, Psychological consequences of early global deprivation: An overview of findings from the English and Romanian Adoptees Study 30 June 2015, Attachment relationships of adolescents who spent their infancy in residential group care: The Greek Metera study 10 Apr 2015, Some of the complexities involved in gene-environment interplay 8 April 2015, Age of onset and the subclassification of conduct/dissocial disorder 31 October 2014, Outcomes in adult life among siblings of individuals with autism 5 September 2014, The cognitive development and school achievement of adopted adolescents: The Greek Metera study 7 Jul 2014, The award, from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, recognises individuals who have made a…, King's College London