Marshall D. Schechter

Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., was a psychiatrist affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a nationally recognized expert on adoption. His clinical and research work focused particularly on the psychological experiences of adoptees and adoptive families.

Schechter co-authored Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (1992) with David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., and Robin Marantz Henig. The book examines adoption across the lifespan, drawing on adoptee experiences alongside psychological and developmental analysis.