Harold J. Bursztajn, MD
96 Larchwood Drive
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-492-8366
Fax: 617-441-3195
www.forensic-psych.com
Associate
Clinical Professor
BIDMC
Psychiatry of
Harvard Medical School
harold_bursztajn@hms.harvard.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
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Internships and Residencies:
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Fellowships and Other Education:
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1975-1976: Special Fellow, Department of Preventive
and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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1978-1980: Research Fellow, Division of Family Medicine
and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School
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1981: Special Student, Harvard
Law School
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1981: Candidate, Boston
Psychoanalytic Institute
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1989: Advanced Candidate, Boston Psychoanalytic
Institute
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2005: Special Graduate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
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1978: Massachusetts, #43038
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1982: New Hampshire, #6592
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1984: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, #26278
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1994: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Added Qualifications
in Forensic Psychiatry, #38
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2001: National Institute of Health Office of Human Subjects Research
computer-based training course on the Protection of Human Research
Subjects, #979405050
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2001-2002: Medical Care Ombudsman, Medical Care Management Corporation
(expert, objective and independent review in cases of informed
medical decisions in all domains of medicine)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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1982-1984: Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
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1984-1990: Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
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1990-: Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
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1978-1979: Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, MA
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1979-1982: Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA
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1982-1986: Hampstead
Hospital, Hampstead, NH
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1985-: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA
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1986-: Mount Auburn
Hospital, Cambridge, MA
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1989-: Beth
Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND
MAJOR VISITING APPOINTMENTS
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1968-1972: Health Consultant, Model Cities Program, Paterson,
NJ
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1978-1979: Acting Medical Director, Concord Unit, Metropolitan
State Hospital
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1983-: Co-Founder, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts
Mental Health Center
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1985 (July): Acting Medical Director, Hampstead Hospital,
Hampstead, NH
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1994-: Consultant, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD
AWARDS AND HONORS
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1968-1972: University Scholar, Princeton University
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1972: Phi Beta Kappa
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1972: magna cum laude, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
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1977: cum laude Honors Thesis, Harvard Medical School
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1981: Co-winner, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
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1983: Second Place, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
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1998: Honorary Mention, Article: Medical Negligence and Informed
Consent in the Managed Health Care Era, The American College
of Physician Executives
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2002: Nominated as Candidate for President of the Harvard Medical
School Alumni Association by Harvard Medical School Alumni
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2002: Twenty-Five Years at Harvard University, Service Recognition
Certificate
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2003: Harvard Medical School Alumni Council Representative to Harvard
University Alumni Directors
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2003: Mentor for Harvard Medical School Academy Mentored Student
Casebook Project
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2003: External Member, Dissertation Committee, Boston College School
of Nursing Graduate Programs.
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2005: Named to Best Doctors of America List
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2006: Included in Who's Who in American Education, 2006-2007
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2006: Faculty Advisory Board of Vision at Harvard
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2006: Nominee, Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award
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2006: Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years
3 & 4)
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2006: Included in Guide to America's Top Psychiatrists,
2006 by the Consumers' Research Council of America
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2006: Certificate of Appreciation for exemplary leadership and uncommon
dedication to advancing the liberal arts and sciences, Phi Beta
Kappa Society
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2007: Nominee, Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching
(Years 3 & 4)
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2007: Nominee, Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award
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2007: Nominee, William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
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2008: A.
Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award
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2008: Project Advisor for Harvard Medical School Academy Mentored
Student Casebook Project
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2008: Nominee, Harvard Medical School Nominee for the AAMC’s National
Humanism in Medicine Award
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
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1972-1977: Recruiter, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, Harvard
Medical School
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1974-1976: Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee
II, student member
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1974-1977: Boston Alumni School Committee of Princeton University
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1982-1986: Peer Review Committee, Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead,
NH
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1984: International Advisory Committee, International Congress on
Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Israel
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1988: Campaign for the Third Century Committee, Harvard Medical School
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1988-1989: Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee
II, faculty member
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1988-1989: Ethics Committee, Mount Auburn Hospital
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1990: Committee on Institute Analysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
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1990: Massachusetts Board of Registration, Medicine, Consultant and
Supervisor
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1992: Consultant, Emergency Room and Hospital Medical Directors
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1996: Rappeport Fellowship Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the
Law
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1997: Subtaskforce on Competency to Stand Trial, American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law
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1998: Advisory and Expert Panel Member, State Justice Institute (SJI)
Benchbook Project on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence,
American Bar Association
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1999: Advisory Board, The International Center for Health Concerns
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1999-2001: Gender Issues Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the
Law
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2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Dean's Council Member
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2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion.
Scientific Symposium Committee, Chairman
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2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion.
Reunion Committee
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2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion.
Reunion Gift Committee
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2000-2005: Harvard Medical School Dean's Council Member
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2000-: Flaschner Judicial Institute Scientific Advisory Panel
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2000: Program Standards Committee (PSC) for the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) Human Research Protection Accreditation Program
(VAHRPAP), National Committee for Quality Assurance
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2000-2005: Ethics Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and the
Law
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2000: St. Jude's Hospital Dinner Committee
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2000: Harvard Hillel Carl Sloane Dinner Committee
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2000-: Princeton University Admissions Committee, Alumni Interviewer
for New England
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2001-: Contributor: Boston Medical Center, The Grow Clinic for Children
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2002-2005: Commissioner, ABA Commission on Mental Health & Disability
Law
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2003: Member, Research Ethics Subcommittee of the Committee on Scientific
Activities of the American Psychoanalytic Association
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2003: Harvard University Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Web
Advisory Board.
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2004-2006: Harvard Alumni Association Graduate Schools and Continuing
Education Committees
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2004-: Harvard Medical School Alumni Council Subcomittee on Student
Indebtedness
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2004: American Bar Association Expert Witness Committee
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2004: American
Bar Association Advisory Panel member to Health Law Section Web
Master
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2005: Harvard Medical School Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair
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2005: American Bar Association Healthcare Litigation & Risk Management
Interest Group Substantive Web Master.
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2006: Scientific Advisory Board Member, International Forensic Medicine
Association, Inc., (IFMA)
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2006: Scientific Advisory Board Member, S2 Security Systems
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2006: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship
Mentor
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2007-: Senior Associate, The Harvard International Negotiation Initiative
at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
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2007-2008: Harvard Medical School Dean’s Council Member
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2008: Boston Psychoanalytic
Society and Institute Building and Budget Explorations Committee
Program Budgeting Subcommittee
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2008: Member, International Academy
of Law and Mental Health Scientific Committee
COMMUNITY SERVICE
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1991: Charter Supporter, United States Holocaust Memorial Hospital
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1992: Discrimination and Workplace Violence Prevention
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1998: Physicians for
Human Rights
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2000: Voluntary Physician Network Member, Community Health Access
Project (CHAP), Boston Jewish Medically Uninsured Project (BJMUP)
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2000: Medical Care Ombudsman Program Member, Medical
Care Management Corporation
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2000: Atrium School, presentation
at Celebration of Science, Math and Technology
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2001: Contributor, Boston Medical Center, The
Grow Clinic for Children
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2005: Contributor, Shady
Hill School
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2005: Conference Advisory Committee, YIVO
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Psychiatry, medical decision making, ethics, and the law
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Informed consent and risk management
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Trauma and the life cycle
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Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of disability and diminished
capacity
PRINCIPAL CLINICAL, HOSPITAL SERVICE
RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
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Presently: Private Clinical Practice, Cambridge, MA
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Consultant to attorneys, clinical practice and institutions
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Co-Founder, Program in Psychiatry and the Law of Harvard Medical
School Department at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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1982-1983: Psychiatric Decision-Making Seminar, Harvard Medical School
Core
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1982-1989: Psychiatry, the Law, and the Practice of Medicine: North
House Seminar 113, Harvard University
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1982-: Ethics Rounds, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, New England
Deaconess Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital
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1983-2005: Program in Psychiatry and the Law Research Seminar, Massachusetts
Mental Health Center, Co-Director
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1991: Extension Division, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute: Clinical
Ethics, Risk Management, and the Psychoanalytic Perspective
EDITORIAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Original Reports and Commentary
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Bursztajn HJ. The
role of a training protocol in formulating patient instructions
as to terminal care choices. J Med Educ. 1977; 52:347-348.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. Medical
Maxims: Two Views of Science. Yale J Biol Med. 1979;
52:483-486.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. The
clinical utility of utility assessment. Med Decision
Making. 1982; 2:162-165.
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Wulsin LR, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG. Unexpected clinical
features of the Tarasoff decision: the therapeutic alliance
and the "duty to warn."
Am J Psychiatry. 1983; 140:601-603.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Subjective
data and suicide assessment in the light of recent legal
developments. Part I: Malpractice prevention and the
use of subjective data. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1983; 6:317-329.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Subjective
data and suicide assessment in the light of recent legal
developments. Part II: Clinical uses of legal standards
in the interpretation of subjective data. Int J Law Psychiatry.
1983; 6:331-350.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Malpractice
prevention through the sharing of uncertainty: informed consent
and the therapeutic alliance. N Engl J Med. 1984; 311:49-51.
Reprinted in 'Grand Rounds on Medical Malpractice' article
3.2, p.131-133.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A. The decision-analytic
approach to medical malpractice law: formal proposals
and informal syntheses. Med Decision Making. 1984; 4:401-414.
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Hamm RM, Clark JA, Bursztajn HJ. Psychiatrists' thorny judgments:
describing and improving decision-making processes. Med
Decision Making. 1984; 4:425-447.
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Bursztajn HJ, Barsky AJ. Facilitating patient acceptance
of a psychiatric referral. Arch Intern Med. 1985; 145:73-75.
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Bursztajn HJ. More
law and less protection: "critogenesis," "legal
iatrogenesis," and medical decision-making. J Geriat
Psychiatry. 1985; 18:143-153.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Mills M, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Process
analysis of judges' commitment decisions: a preliminary
empirical study. Am J Psychiatry. 1986; 143:170-174.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. The multidimensional
assessment of dangerousness: competence assessment in
patient care and liability prevention. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry
Law. 1986; 14:123-129.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Warren MJ, Brodsky A. Depression,
self-love, time, and the "right" to suicide.
Gen Hospital Psychiatry. 1986; 8:91-95.
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Bursztajn HJ. Ethicogenesis. Gen Hospital Psychiatry. 1986;
8:422-424.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Clinicians' guidelines for assessing
and presenting subtle forms of patient incompetence in
legal settings. Am J Psychiatry. 1986; 143:1020-1023.
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Pavlo AM, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Levi LM. Weighing religious
beliefs in determining competence. Hospital Community
Psychiatry. 1987; 38:350-352.
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Pavlo AM, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG. Christian Science and
competence to make treatment choices: clinical challenges
in assessing values. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1987; 395-401.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Kaplan AN, Brodsky A. Participation
in competency assessment and treatment decisions: the
role of a psychiatrist-attorney team. Mental Physical
Disabilities Law Reporter. 1987; 11:446-449.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Mills M. Parens
Patriae considerations in the commitment process. Psychiatric
Quart. 1988; 59:3:165-181.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A, Swagerty E. Magical
thinking, suicide, and malpractice litigation. Bull Am
Acad Psychiatry Law, 1988; 16:369-376.
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Bursztajn HJ. Flight:
the eloquence of silence. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin.
1989; 62:3:45-47.
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Bursztajn HJ, Harding HP, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A. Beyond cognition:
the role of disordered affective states in impairing
competence to consent to treatment. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry
Law. 1991; 19:383-388.
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Bursztajn HJ, Chanowitz B, Kaplan E, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM,
Alexander V. Medical
and judicial perceptions of the risks associated with
use of antipsychotic medication. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry
Law. 1991; 19:271-275.
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Bursztajn HJ, Chanowitz B, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM. Micro-effects
of language on risk perception in drug prescribing behavior.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1992; 20:59-66.
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Deaton RJS, Illingworth PML, Bursztajn HJ. Unanswered questions
about the criminalization of therapist-patient sex. Am
J Psychotherapy. 1992; 46:526-531.
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Bursztajn HJ. From PSDA to PTSD: The patient self-determination
act and post-traumatic stress disorder. J Clinical Ethics.
1993; 4:71-74.9.
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Pitman RK, Orr SP, Bursztajn HJ. Vinal v. New England Telephone:
admission of PTSD psychophysiologic test results in a
civil trial. AAPL Newsletter. 1993; 18(3): 67-69.
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Bursztajn HJ, Scherr AE, Brodsky A. The
rebirth of forensic psychiatry in light of recent historical
trends in criminal responsibility. Psychiat Clinics N
Am. 1994; 17:611-635.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Authenticity
and autonomy in the managed care era: forensic psychiatric
perspectives. J Clinical Ethics. 1994; 5:237-242.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Clear, convincing, and authentic
advance directives in the context of managed care? J
Clinical Ethics. 1994; 5:364-366.
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Bursztajn HJ. Reflections on my father's experience with
doctors during the Shoah (1939-1945). J Clinical Ethics.
1996; 7:100-102.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. A
new resource for managing malpractice risks in managed care.
Arch Intern Med. 1996; 156:2057-2063.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Gutheil TG. Beyond the black letter
of the law: an empirical study of a judge's decision-making
process in civil commitment hearings. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry
Law. 1997; 25:79-94.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Ethical
and legal dimensions of benzodiazepine prescription.
Psychiatric Annals. 1998; 28(3):121-128.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A. Ethics
and the triage model in managed care hospital psychiatry.
Psychiatric Times. 1998; 15(9): 33-40.
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Bursztajn HJ, Sobel R. Accountability
without health care data banks. Health Affairs. 1998;
17(6):252-253.
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Bursztajn HJ. Melatonin therapy: from benzodiazepine-dependent
insomnia to authenticity and autonomy. Archives of Internal
Medicine. 1999; 159:2393-2395.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Captive
patients, captive doctors: clinical dilemmas and interventions
in caring for patients in managed health care. Gen Hospital
Psychiatry. 1999; 21:239-248.
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Bursztajn HJ, Berman S. Commentary on: Clinical criteria
for three types of dementia had low sensitivity and high
specificity. Evidence-Based Mental Health. 1999; Aug,
2:91.
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Illingworth PI, Bursztajn HJ. Death with dignity or life
with managed care uncertainty? Psychology Public Policy
Law. 2000; 6(2):314-241.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Strasburger LH. Preventing
"critogenic" harms: Minimizing emotional injury
from civil litigation. J Psychol Law. 2000; 28:5-18.
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Bursztajn HJ. Commentary on: Physicians indicated the need
to frame questions and develop indirect approaches that
foster patient trust in evaluating victims of domestic
violence. Evidence-Based Mental Health. 2000, May, 3:63.
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Bursztajn HJ. Commentary on: Cognitive behavioural therapy,
systemic behavioural family therapy, and non-directive
supportive therapy had similar long term effectiveness
for major depressive disorder in adolescents. Evidence-Based
Mental Health. 2000; Nov., 3:108.
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Schrecker T, Acosta L, Bursztajn HJ. Social risk reduction.
Soc Sci Med. 2001; 52:1677-1687.
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Bursztajn HJ. Work disability prevention in the midst of
mental illness and life's trauma. Psychiatric Services.
2001; 52:1421.
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Bursztajn HJ. Protecting patient care and public safety in
the managed-care era. Gen Hospital Psychiatry. 2002;
24:1-3.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Managed-health-care
complications, liability risks, and clinical remedies.
Primary Psychiatry. 2002; 4:37-41.
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Bursztajn HJ. Forensic psychiatry: The ethics of mentally
impaired patient termination in captive situations. Mid-Atlantic
Ethics Committee Newsletter, University of Maryland School
of Law, Spring, 2002: 7.
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Bursztajn HJ, Paul RK, Reiss DM, Hamm RM. Forensic psychiatric
evaluation of workers' compensation claims in a managed-care
context. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2003; 31:117-119.
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Bursztajn HJ. Who Killed
Julius Caesar? Psychoforensic Analysis of Decisionmaking
Under Stress. The American Psychoanalyst. Fall 2003;
37(3).
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Bursztajn HJ, Sobel R. Protecting
privacy in the behavioral genetics era. Mental Health & Disability
Law Reporter, July, August, 2003.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Avoiding
ipse dixit mislabeling. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2003;
31:205-210.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hilliard JT, Brodsky A. "Just
say No": Experts' Late Withdrawal From Cases to Preserve
Independence and Objectivity. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 32:390-4,
2004.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Attorney
Abuses of Daubert Hearings: Junk Science, Junk Law, or Just
Plain Obstruction? J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 33:150-2,
2005.
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Pirikitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ. Are Prisoners Medical Captives?
LJN's BioEthics Legal Review 1(2):1-4, Aug 2005
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Gopal A, Pirakitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ. Informed
Consent in Neuropsychosocialpharmacology Psychiatric
Times 2005; 22(13):59-63.
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Pirakitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ. The
Grand Inquisitor’s Choice: Comment on the CEJA Report
on Withholding Information from Patients. J Clin Ethics 17(4):307-311,
2006.
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Bursztajn HJ, Pulde MF, Pirakitikulr D, Perlin M. Kumho for
Clinicians in the Courtroom - Inconsistency in the Trial
Courts. Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy Volume 24,
Number 2; 1-7, Nov 2006.
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Cosgrove L, Bursztajn HJ. Undoing
Undue Industry Influence: Lessons from Psychiatry as Psychopharmacology. Organ
Ethic Fall/Winter 2007; 3(2):131-3.
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Johnson B, Bursztajn HJ, Paul R, Coletsos I. Reducing
the Risk of Addiction to Prescribed Medications. Psychiatric
Times Bonus Issue: Clinical Psychiatry and the Law April
15, 2007 Vol. 24 No. 4.
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Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ. On
Skepticism and Tolerance in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry.
Psychiatric Times Bonus Issue: Clinical Psychiatry and the
Law April 15, 2007 Vol. 24 No. 5.
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Bursztajn HJ, Pirakitkulr D. Pride
and Prejudice: Avoiding Genetic Gossip in the Age of Genetic
Testing. J Clin Ethics 18(2):156-161, 2007.
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Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ. DSM
misuse pitfalls evident in clinical training and courtroom
testimony. Psychiatr Ann September 2007; 37(9):604-617.
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Hamm RM, Reiss DM, Paul RK, Bursztajn HJ. Knocking at the
wrong door: Insured workers’ inadequate psychiatric care
and workers’ compensation claims. Int J Law Psychiatry.
2007; 30:416-426.
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Haque OS, Bursztajn HJ. Decision-Making Capacity, Informed
Consent, and Surrogate and Substituted Judgment at the
Boundaries of Self. J Clin Ethics 2007 Fall;18(3)247-251.
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Cosgrove L, Bursztajn HJ. Strengthening Conflict-of-Interest
Policies in Medicine. J Eval Clin Pract (In Press).
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Book Chapters
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Feinbloom RI, Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Bringing
the family into family practice. In: Brazelton TB, Vaughn
VC III, eds. The Family: Setting Priorities. New York:
Science and Medicine Publishing Co., 1979; 169-179.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Gutheil TG. The technological target:
involving the patient in clinical choices. In: Reiser
SJ, Anbar M, eds. The Machine at the Bedside: Strategies
for Using Technology in Patient Care. Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, 1984; 177-191.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Cummins B. Legal issues in inpatient
psychiatry. In: Sederer LI, ed. Inpatient Psychiatry.
2d ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1986; 338-356.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Cummins B. Legal issues in inpatient
psychiatry. In: Sederer LI, ed. Inpatient Psychiatry.
3d ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1991; 379-406.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Alexander V, Levi L. Probability,
decision analysis, and conscious gambling. In: Gutheil
TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision
Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins,
1991; 37-52.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Gutheil TG, Alexander V.
Subjective assessment in clinical decision making and
malpractice liability. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ,
Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry
and the Law. Baltimore: Williams &
Wilkins, 1991; 53-68.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A. Affective disorders,
competence, and decision-making. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn
HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry
and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991;
153-170.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V. Managing
uncertainty: the therapeutic alliance, informed consent,
and liability. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky
A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry and
the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991; 69-88.
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Alexander V, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Hamm RM, Gutheil TG,
Levi L. Involuntary commitment. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn
HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry
and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991;
89-112.
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Kaplan E, Bursztajn HJ, Alexander V, Hamm RM, Brodsky A,
Barnard D, Kaplan AN. Making treatment decisions. In:
Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds.
Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore:
Williams & Wilkins, 1991; 113-132.
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Alexander V, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Gutheil TG. Deciding
for others; autonomy and protection in tension. In: Gutheil
TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision
Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins,
1991; 133-152.
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Warren M, Commons ML, Gutheil TG, Swagerty EL, Bursztajn
HJ, Brodsky A. Suicide, magical thinking, and liability.
In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V,
eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore:
Williams & Wilkins, 1991; 189-208.
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Hauser MJ, Commons ML, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG. Fear of
malpractice liability and its role in clinical decision-making.
In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V,
eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore:
Williams & Wilkins, 1991; 209-226.
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Canning S, Hauser MJ, Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Communications
in psychiatric practice: Decision-making and the use
of the telephone. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky
A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry and
the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991; 227-238.
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Commons ML, Sonnert G, Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Ethics and
decisions about suicide. In: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ,
Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry
and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991;
239-256.
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Deaton RJS, Colenda CC, Bursztajn HJ. Medical-legal issues.
In: Stoudemire A, Fogel BS, eds. Psychiatric Care of
the Medical Patient. New York: Oxford University Press,
1993; 929-938.
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Deaton R, Bursztajn HJ. Antipsychotic medication: regulation
through the right to refuse. In: Schwartz HI, ed. Psychiatric
Practice Under Fire. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric
Press, 1994; 85-101.
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Bursztajn HJ. One axiom and eight corollaries for managing
legal issues in an inpatient psychiatric setting. In:
Docherty JP, ed. Inpatient Psychiatry in the 1990s. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994; 95-107.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson
JL, Jacobson AM, eds. Psychiatric Secrets. Philadelphia:
Hanley &
Belfus, 1996; 501-515.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Patients who sue and clinicians
who are sued in the managed-care era. In: Lifson LE,
Simon RI, eds. The Mental Health Practitioner and the
Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998; 237-249.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Ethical and effective testimony
during direct examination and cross-examination post-Daubert.
In: Lifson LE, Simon RI, eds. The Mental Health Practitioner
and the Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998; 262-280.
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Bursztajn HJ. Responses to a defective managed care product:
medical negligence, lack of informed consent, and choicelessness.
In: 2000 Wiley Expert Witness Update. New York: Aspen
Law Business/Panel Publishers, 2000; 239-264.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson
JL, Jacobson AM, eds. Psychiatric Secrets. 2nd ed. Philadelphia:
Hanley
& Belfus, 2000; 485-498.
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Deaton RJS, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. The role of the mental
health professional in employment litigation. In: McDonald
JJ, Jr, Kulick FB, eds. Mental and Emotional Injuries
in Employment Litigation. 2nd ed. Washington DC: The
Bureau of National Affairs, 2001; 50-71.
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Bursztajn, HJ, Boersema, RR. Forensic and therapeutic issues
in stepparent adoptions: a psychoanalytic perspective.
In: Cath SH, Shopper M, eds. Stepparenting: creating
and recreating families in America today, NY: Analytic
Press.
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Bursztajn HJ. Preface: Who Killed King Tut? In: King, Michael
R., Cooper, Gregory M. Who Killed King Tut? Amherst,
NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.
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Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious Disorder/Münchhausen
Syndrome. In: Domino FJ, Baldor RA, Ehrlich AM, Golding
J, eds. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 17th ed. Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008; 468-469
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Books
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Reiser SJ, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Appelbaum PS. Divided
Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health
Ethics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
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Bursztajn HJ, Feinbloom RI, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Medical
Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and
Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty. New York: Delacorte,
1981; New York: Routledge, Chapman
& Hall, 1990.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision
Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins,
1991.
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Perlin ML, Bursztajn HJ, Gledhill K, Szeli E. Psychiatric
Ethics and the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities
in Institutions and the Community. UNESCO Chair in Bioethics,
2008.
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR AND FACULTY
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and Massachusetts
Mental Health Center:
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"Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice," September
1990.
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"Sex Between Clinicians and Patients: Clinical, Legal
and Medico-Legal Perspectives," September 1990.
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"Malpractice Prevention for the 1990s: An Update on
the Issues and Practical Approaches," January 1991.
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"The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide," January
1992.
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"Dangers and Pitfalls of Forensic Practice," January
1992.
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"Liability Prevention for Medical and Surgical Practitioners:
Trends and Update," January, 1993.
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"Doctors and Nurses in Court: A Basic Survival Guide," January,
1993.
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"Malpractice in the 1990s: Trends and Update," February,
1993.
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"The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide," February,
1993.
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Massachusetts Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education
Course.
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"Nuts and Bolts of Using Medical Experts at Trial," November
1990.
FACULTY
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and Massachusetts
Mental Health Center:
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"Intensive Diagnostic Interviewing," 1990-.
PRESENTATIONS
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"Prevention of Violence and Suicide by the High-Risk Patient." Mount
Auburn Hospital Grand Rounds, Cambridge, MA, September 15, 1992.
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"Malpractice Prevention." Brookside Hospital Grand Rounds,
Nashua, NH, March 15, 1993.
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"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Courtroom." Panel,
American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, May 26, 1993.
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"Psychiatry Issues." Medical Malpractice Seminar for Office
of Legal Education, Executive Office for United States Attorneys,
Salt Lake City, UT, July 13, 1993.
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"Liability for Sexual Misconduct of Government Providers." with
Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., Workshop, Office of Legal Education, Executive
Office for United States Attorneys, Salt Lake City, UT, July 13,
1993.
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"Competency to Confess to a Criminal Act." American Academy
of Forensic Sciences, Boston, MA, 1993.
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"Malpractice Prevention in High-Risk Doctor-Patient Encounters." Lawrence
General Hospital, Lawrence, MA, January 18, 1994.
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"Forensic Psychiatric Assessment of Mental Damages." Discussant,
Panel, American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 24,
1994.
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"What is Forensic Psychiatry? A Guide for Judges." New
Hampshire Bar Association Meeting, January 27, 1995.
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"Diminished Capacity in the Criminal Justice System." Seventh
Annual Bridgewater, MA, State Hospital Conference, April 7, 1995.
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"Fact vs. Expert Witness." Workshop, The Clinician in Court:
A Survival Guide, Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing
Education, April 8, 1995.
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"Medical Choices, Managed Care and Uncertainty." Medical
Staff Conference, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, June 9, 1995.
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"Behavioral Strategies for Malpractice Prevention in a Managed
Care Era." Medical Grand Rounds, Marlborough Hospital, Marlborough,
MA, November 30, 1995.
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"Violence Against Attorneys, Judges, and Litigants in the Family
Law Courtroom." Boston Bar Association, Family Law Section,
December 1995.
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"Violence in the Courtroom." Annual Conference of Massachusetts
Probate and Family Court Judges, Stockbridge, MA, May 10, 1996.
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"How to be an Ethical and Effective Medical Witness, Post-Daubert." National
Expert Witness and Litigation Seminar, Hyannis, MA, June 20, 1996.
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"Effective and Ethical Testimony for Mental Health Professionals." Testifying
and Consulting Experts, San Francisco, CA, September 1996.
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"Being an Ethical and Effective Medical Expert." Testifying
and Consulting Experts, San Francisco, CA, September 1996.
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"Dimensions of a Forensic Psychiatric Home Page." American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, San Juan, PR, October 1996.
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"From the Shoah to Managed Health: What One Forensic Psychiatrist
has Learned about Clinical Ethics." YIVO Institute and New School
for Social Research, New York, NY, November 1996.
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"Preventing Malpractice Litigation in Managed Health Care Settings." Harvard
Medical School Department of Continuing Education, November 22, 1996.
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"Ethical and Effective Testimony for Physicians Accused of Malpractice." Harvard
Medical School Department of Continuing Education, November 23, 1996.
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"Ethical and Decision Making Issues in Primary Care Medicine
in a Managed Care Context." Vermont Technical College, Vermont
Ethics Network, February 10, 1997.
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"Surreptitious LSD Administration: Ethical, Toxicologic and
Psychiatric Impact on Product Liability Issues."
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 19, 1997.
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"Medical Historical Perspectives Regarding Managed Care and
Medical Necessity: True and False." Chairman of Symposium on
Ethical Issues in Managed Health Care. American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 19, 1997.
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"Medical Necessity, Managed Health Care Denial of Benefits,
and the Nuremberg Code." Panel: "Medical Ethics: Who Gets
the Care?" Moderator: Professor Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., Princeton
University 250th Anniversary Symposium, Princeton, NJ, May 29, 1997.
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"Capital Punishment in the McVeigh Case." BBC World Services.
Cambridge, MA, June 13, 1997.
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"Managed Health Care: Protecting the Quality of Care in the
Clinic and the Courtroom." Saints Memorial Medical Center, Lowell,
MA, July 9, 1997.
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"Why Do They Do It? Motivation of Violent Criminals." National
Association of Legal Secretaries Annual Meeting and Educational Conference,
Boston, MA, July 26, 1997.
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"Substituting Alliance
for Alienation: Supporting the Human Side in Changing Health Care." Advanced
Risk Management Seminar, New England Health Care Assembly, Falmouth,
MA, July 28, 1997.
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"Clinical Ethics and Shared Decision-Making with Patients and
Their Families." Healthcare Educational and Research Fund and
Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga, NY, September 18, 1997.
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"Working with High-Risk Patients and Families to Turn Alienation
into Patient Loyalty." Healthcare Educational and Research Fund
and Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga, NY, September 18, 1997.
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"High-Risk Patients and Families in Chronic Illness Situations." Physicians'
Meeting, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, October 8,
1997.
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"Protecting Yourself from Potential Litigation from Employees
and Patients." Harvard School of Public Health conference: "Leadership
in Evolving Health Care Systems." Boston, MA, November 4, 1997.
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"Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Imaging." Harvard Medical
School, Advanced Workshop, "Liability Prevention" postgraduate
course, Boston, MA, November 22, 1997.
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"Sexual Harassment Post-Daubert." Presidential Panel, American
Academy of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, February, 1998.
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"Exploring the Consequences of a National Health Care Data Base:
Cyberspace Medicine." Harvard Law School Berkman Center: "Privacy
and Cyber/Spaces: Government Databanks and Identification. Medical
and Other Instances," Cambridge, MA, May 13, 1998.
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"Values in the Physician-Patient-Managed Health Care Relationship." American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 1,
1998.
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"Employment Disability and Accommodation Dilemmas." American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 4,
1998.
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"Sexual Misconduct in Managed Health Care Settings." Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute: "Sexual Misconduct by
Psychotherapists, Other Health Care Professionals, and Clergy: Prevention
and Treatment of Boundary Violations by Professionals." Chestnut
Hill, MA, October 4, 1998.
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"Boundary Violations: How are they defined in the patient-physician
relationship?" Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, MA, October
7, 1998.
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"Risk Management: How to reduce medical malpractice suits." Sheraton-Newton
Hotel, Newton, MA, October 10-11, 1998.
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"Post-Daubert Sexual Harassment Expert." 1998 Annual Meeting
Program, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 22, 1998.
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"Functional Brain Imaging and Criminal Behavior,"
with Lisa Acosta, BA. 1998 Annual Meeting Program, American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans, LA, October 23, 1998.
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"Protecting Yourself from Potential Litigation from Employees
and Patients." Harvard School of Public Health:
"Leadership in Evolving Health Care Systems." Boston, MA,
November 4, 1998.
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"Ethical and Legal Issues in Managed Health Care." Mount
Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, November 11, 1998.
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"Ethical & Technical Effects of Daubert on Experts' Opinions." Harvard
Medical School: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival
Guide." Boston, MA, November 21, 1998.
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"Managed Care, Standards of Care & Informed Consent: How
to Present Your Medical Opinion." Harvard Medical School:
"Medical and Surgical Practitioners in Court: A Survival Guide."
Boston, MA, November 21, 1998.
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"When Am I Going To Be Sued: How Can Physicians, Lawyers, and
Surgeons Prevent Malpractice, Sexual Misconduct, and Employee Litigation?" Lawrence
General Hospital, Lawrence, MA, January 13, 1999.
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"Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Imaging Testimony Post-Daubert." New
England School of Law: "Criminal and Civil Issues Concerning
the Mentally Ill: Lawyers, Courts & Mental Health Professionals." Boston,
MA, January 27, 1999.
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"An Essential Guide to Ethical and Effective Conflict Resolution
via an Objective Expert's Deposition." SEAK Inc.
"National Medical Witness Summit." Fort Lauderdale, FL,
February 20-21, 1999.
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"Boundary Violations: How to Avoid the Slippery Slope." The
Massachusetts Medical Society. Holyoke, MA, March 10, 1999.
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"Clinical Responses to Managed Health Care." American Psychiatric
Association, Washington, DC, May 18, 1999.
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"Beyond the Court-Appointed Custody Expert Post-Daubert." American
Psychological Association Convention: "Abusive Practices in
Divorce Cases: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Dilemmas."
Boston, MA, August 23, 1999.
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"Brain Imaging and Child Development." Watertown Public
School, Watertown, MA, November 4, 1999.
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"Premises Liability: Ethical and Effective Psychological and
Psychiatric Evaluation Post-Daubert." ICLE, Atlanta, GA, November
5, 1999.
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"Ethical & Technical Effects of Daubert on Experts' Opinions." Four
Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA, December 11, 1999.
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"Legal Issues of Psychopharmacology." Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, MA, April 21, 2000.
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"Maintaining Your Credibility & Integrity."
SEAK Inc., National Expert Witness & Litigation Seminar, Hyannis,
MA, June 16, 2000.
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"The Physician Expert In Court: Ethical and Effective Testimony." Harvard
Medical School CME: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A
Survival Guide." Boston, MA, December 2, 2000.
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"The Forensic Expert: Beyond It Is Because I Say So." Harvard
Medical School: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival
Guide." Boston, MA, December 2, 2000.
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"Talking to pre-K to Grade 6 Children about 9/11." Atrium
School Consultation, Watertown, MA, September, 11, 2001.
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"Protecting Human Research Subjects: Ethical, Regulatory and
Scientific Considerations." Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,
October 15, 2001.
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"The Shoah and its Aftermath on Film: Thoughts on Professional
Ethics." American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law, 31st
Annual AAPL, A/V session, Boston, MA, October 26, 2001.
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"New Developments in Informed Consent, PTSD, Addictions, Medical
Care and the Mental Health Clinician." Harvard Medical School
CME: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide." Boston,
MA, December 1, 2001.
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"Protecting Patient Mental Health Care and Public Safety after
9/11." Hawaii County Community Mental Health Center, Adult Mental
Health Division, Dept. of Health, Hilo Island, Hawaii, February 21,
2002.
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"Aftermath of 9/11 - The Sixth-Month Anniversary." New
England Cable News, March 10, 2002.
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"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Physicians and Surgeons." Exeter
Hospital Medical & Surgical Staff Grand Rounds, Exeter, NH, April
30, 2002.
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"The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Spectrum for Physicians
and Surgeons." CME Grand Rounds, Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH,
April 2002.
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"'Our Children': The aftermath of becoming an orphan post the
Shoah." A/V Presentation, American Psychiatric Association,
Philadelphia, PA, May 2002.
-
"Prison Expansion and Recidivism." Public Television Documentary
Film sponsored by the Martin Luther King Institute, Washington, D.C.,
July 3, 2002 Interview.
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"Who Killed Tutankhamun?" Discovery
Channel, October 6, 2002.
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"Hunting the Sniper; Does He Have a Profile?" New England
Cable News, October 17, 2002 Interview.
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"Profiling the Washington DC Area Sniper." CNN, October
21, 2002 Interview.
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"The Death Penalty and Post-Atkins Concerns."
American Bar Association, Editorial Advisory Board to the Mental
and Physical Disability Law Reporter Commission, Washington DC, November
15-16, 2002.
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"The Origins of Violence in Human Society." Harvard Hillel,
Cambridge, MA, November 20, 2002.
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"Mind Games: Paranormal Phenomena." WCVB-TV, Chronicle,
Boston, MA, April 23, 2003.
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"Who Killed Julius
Caesar?" Discovery Channel, April 27, 2003.
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Workshop: "Patient Responsibility for Addiction to Prescribed
Substances." American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, May 19, 2003.
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Workshop: "Post-Genocide Psychological Trauma in Film: Under
the Domim Tree." American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, May 20, 2003.
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"Epilepsy and
Empire, Caveat Caesar." Harvard Magazine. September-October
2003: Volume 106, Number 1, Page 19.
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"Patient Responsibility for Addiction to Prescribed Medicines." Institute
of Psychiatric Services Workshop, Boston, MA, October 29, 2003.
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"People in the News, Michael Jackson," CNN, January 17-18,
2004.
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"The Ides of March." Discovery Channel, air date March
17, 2004.
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"Ethical, Clinical and Forensic Issues in Pain Management." Mass
General Hospital/New England Medical Center Pain Care Unit, Boston,
MA, April 7, 2004.
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"Functional Imaging in Court: Uses and Controversies." American
Psychiatric Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, New York City, May
3, 2004.
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"Postgenocide Psychological Trauma in Film, The Summer of Aviya." American
Psychiatric Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, New York City, May
5, 2004.
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"Avoiding Dual-Agency Pitfalls of Work-related Neuropsychiatric
Impairments." American Psychiatric Association, 2004 Annual
Meeting, New York City, May 6, 2004.
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"Who Killed Julius Caesar? A new take on Caesar's death." Harvard
Club of France, Paris, France, June 22, 2004.
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"Columbus: Secrets from
the Grave." Discovery Channel, August 1, 2004.
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"Revisiting a Death Foretold: Discovering New Questions for
a Classic Mystery." The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
October 4, 2004.
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"The Science of Zyprexa." Zyprexa Conference presented
by Scientific Evidence, October 14, 2004.
-
"Correctional Risk Management." Correctional Association
of Massachusetts Conference, Milford, MA, October 26, 2004.
-
"The Body of Adolph Hitler." Discovery Channel, to air
October 2004.
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"The Body of JFK." Discovery Channel, to air October 2004.
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"Becoming expert on experts: from the classics to forensic neuropsychiatry."
Federal Bar Association, Chattanooga, TN, November 11, 2004.
-
"Who Killed Alexander
the Great?" Discovery Channel, November 24, 2004.
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"The Mysterious Death
of Cleopatra." Discovery Channel, December 6, 2004.
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"Clinical expertise in medical product litigation: On not losing
in translation." American Conference Institute's Drug and Medical
Device Litigation Conference, New York, NY, December 14, 2004.
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"Forensic Neuropsychiatry of Decision-Making: The Ides of March."
McLean Hospital Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education
Grand Rounds, Belmont, MA, March 10, 2005.
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"Standards for experts post-Daubert." Continuing Legal
Education Institute of Georgia, May 6, 2005.
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"TRAUMA: New Developments in Psychoanalysis." IPA 44th
Congress, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, July 2005.
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"Post-Daubert Standards in Forensic Neuropsychiatry."
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA,
February 23, 2006.
-
"Going to the Heart of the Matter in Patient Interviews."
American Psychiatric Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada,
May 25, 2006.
-
"Childhood Trauma
in Film: Undzere Kinder (Our Children)." World Psychiatric
Association International Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, July 15, 2006.
-
"Very Hot Cold Cases." American Association for Medical
Transcription Annual Convention & Expo, Boston, MA, August 2006.
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"Reflections on My Father's Experience with Doctors During the
Shoah (1939-1945)." Boston University, Boston, MA, November
16, 2006.
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"Going to the Heart of the Matter in Patient Interviews." American
Psychiatric Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21,
2007.
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"An Analysis Regarding the Effects of Workplace Racial Discrimination
and Harassment on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Function." 30th
Anniversary Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental
Health, Padua, Italy, June 26, 2007.
-
"Childhood Trauma
in Film: Undzere Kinder (Our Children)." 30th Anniversary
Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Padua,
Italy, June 26, 2007.
-
"Childhood Trauma
in Film: Unzere Kinder (Our Children; Poland 1948)." YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research, New York City, November 4, 2007.
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"Forgetting and Remembering
in Poetry and Psychoanalysis." The Boston Psychoanalytic
Society and Institute Special Members Seminar, Boston, November 12,
2007.
-
"Why a psychodynamically informed forensic psychiatry matters:
the strange case of the unspeakability of sexual dysfunction as a
consequence of racial harassment and discrimination." Risk Factors
in the Workplace: Social Policy and Ethics Conference, Montreal,
Quebec, November 30, 2007.
-
"Kumho for Clinicians in the Courtroom." Lorman Education
Services Teleconference, December 5, 2007.
-
"State of IL v. Aubrey D. Tucker, Jr." Harvard Law School "Capital
Punishment in America," February 26, 2008.
-
"Unmasking the Sophisticated Malingerer in Individual and Group
Claims." Medical Malpractice Seminar, National Advocacy
Center, Columbia, SC, May 22, 2008.
-
"Elvin Semrad’s Interviewing Fundamentals for High-Pressure
Clinical, Forensic, and Educational Contexts." American Psychiatric
Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, May 7, 2008.
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"Emerging Roles, Trends, and Risk Management for Family Court-Involved
Psychologists." American Psychological Association Annual Convention,
Boston, MA, August 14, 2008.
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"Forensic Psychiatric & Legal Perspectives on Law & Memory." MCLE
Program, Boston, MA, August 14, 2008.
PROFESSIONAL AND GENERAL
EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Liability prevention through
informed consent with some new approaches for the clinician.
Risk Management Foundation Forum. 1986; 7:8-9.
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Bursztajn HJ. The phobic in court. Lawyers Weekly, December 7, 1992.
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Bursztajn HJ. The role of a
forensic psychiatrist in legal proceedings. J Mass Acad Trial
Attys, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1993:33-35.
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Bursztajn HJ. New developments
in the role of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in civil and criminal
law. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1994:58-60.
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Bursztajn HJ. Traumatic memories
as evidence: true or false? J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 2,
No. 1, July 1994:77-80.
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Bursztajn HJ. The role of the forensic psychiatrist in civil proceedings.
(New Hampshire) Trial Bar News 16, Summer 1994:84-86.
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Anderson MK, Bursztajn HJ. Supervisory
negligence litigation in context. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol.
2, No. 2, October 1994:45-46.
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Bursztajn HJ. Psychiatric experts in victim litigation. Crime Victims'
Litigation Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1995.
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Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. National
certification for forensic psychiatrists: A preview of the post-Daubert
expert. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1995:53-56.
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Saunders LS, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Recovered memory and managed
care: HB 236's post-Daubert "science" junket. (New
Hampshire) Trial Bar News 17, Spring 1995:27-37.
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Bursztajn HJ, Joshi PT, Sutherland SM, Tomb DA (Article Consultants).
Recognizing posttraumatic stress. Patient Care, March 30, 1995.
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Bursztajn HJ, Hilliard JT. Violence
against attorneys and judges: Protecting yourself before and after
a threat. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 3, No. 1, July 1995:47-51.
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Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Daubert
without prejudice: Achieving relevance and reliability without randomness.
J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1996:54-58.
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Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Medical negligence and informed
consent in the managed care era. Health Lawyer. 1997; 9(5):14-17.
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Bernstine EG, Bursztajn HJ, Wilkens J. Effective use of scientific
evidence: lessons from the Simpson trial. J Mass Acad Trial Attys,
Winter 1997:22-28.
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Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Keeping a jury involved during
a long trial. Criminal Justice, Vol. 11, No. 4, Winter 1997:8-9.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. A new resource for managing malpractice
risks in managed care. The Connecticut Association of Not-for
profit Providers for the Aging, March 1997:4.
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Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Responsibility without scapegoating. Health
Decisions, A Publication of The Vermont Ethics Network, Vol.
5, No. 1, May 1997:3.
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Bernstine EG, Bursztajn HJ, Wilkens J. Emotional justice: further
lessons from the Simpson trial. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Spring
1997:18-26.
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Bursztajn HJ. Preventing neo-Nazi
cult violence in our schools. Jewishfamily.com. 1999.
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Bursztajn HJ. Treatment for managed care pain. Harvard Medical Alumni
Bulletin, Autumn 1999:9.
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Bursztajn HJ, Joshi PT, Sutherland SM, Tomb DA (Article Consultants).
Recognizing posttraumatic stress. Patient Care, October 15, 1999
(second edition).
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Bursztajn HJ, Sobel R. Ban genetic
discrimination. Boston Globe, August 7, 2000.
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Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Keeping a jury involved during
a long trial. Pro/Con 4. 2005; (21):166-169, Grollier Press:
Danbury, CT (Text for high school teachers for American Civics).
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Bursztajn, HJ. Dead Men
Talking. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Spring 2005:17.
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Bursztajn, HJ. Prescriptions
for Hope. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Autumn 2006:10.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Bursztajn HJ. On Students'
Drinking. Princeton Alumni Newsletter, February 24, 1988.
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Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ. Ways
of Dealing With a Malpractice Hazard. Am J Psychiatry. 1988;
145:1492-93.
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Bursztajn HJ. Efficacy research and psychodynamic psychiatry. Am
J Psychiatry. 1991; 148:817-818.
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Bursztajn HJ. Competency
to make a will. Am J Psychiatry. 1992; 149:1415.
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Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG. Protecting
patients from clinician-patient sexual contact. Am J Psychiatry.
1992; 149:1276.
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Bursztajn HJ. An overview of sexual harassment. Am J Psychiatry.
1995; 152:478.
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Bursztajn HJ. Criminalizing doctor-assisted suicide isn't a cure.
Boston Globe, January 9, 1997.
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Bursztajn HJ. Psychotherapist
versus expert witness. Am J Psychiatry. 1998; 155:307.
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Bursztajn HJ. Recovered
memories. Psychiatric Services. 1998; 49:699-700.
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Bursztajn HJ. On the goals of the Freud Library of Congress Museum
Exhibition. New York Times Magazine, November 1, 1998: Section
6:20.
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Bursztajn HJ. Clinical
Trials and Effectiveness Research. Am J Psychiatry. 2000; 157:152.
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Bursztajn HJ. When health care goes lacking. New York Times, August
4, 1999.
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Bursztajn HJ. Suspicious
trials in Iran. New York Times, May 9, 2000.
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Bursztajn HJ. Princeton University faculty. Princeton Alumni Weekly,
May 17, 2000.
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Bursztajn HJ. Reducing clinical research risks. New York Times, August
1, 2001.
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Bursztajn HJ. Bio-War: Best defense is a good offense. Wall Street
Journal, October 3, 2001.
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Bursztajn HJ. An
offensive against bioterrorism. Boston Globe, October 4, 2001.
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Bursztajn HJ. Better
Help for the Mentally Ill. New York Times, March 10, 2002.
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Bursztajn HJ. Health care in the right doses. New York Times, July
26, 2002.
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Bursztajn HJ. The
Fateful Gamble in Moscow. New York Times, October 29, 2002.
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Bursztajn HJ. Kahneman's influence. Princeton Alumni Newsletter,
February 2003.
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Bursztajn HJ, Paul RK, Reiss DM, Hamm RM offer two composite case
vignettes of lost compensation claims. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
2003 31: 395-396.
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Bursztajn HJ. Common
pitfalls in the evaluation of testamentary capacity. J Am Acad Psychiatry
Law 2008 36(1):157.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS
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Bursztajn HJ. Managing
care, not dollars: The continuum of mental health services. Am
J Psychiatry. 1998; 155:985.
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Bursztajn HJ. Managing
managed care. Am J Psychiatry. 1999; 156:148.
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Bursztajn, HJ, Tan, S. Unconscous Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal
Responsibility in Victorian London, JAMA, 2004; 291: 1777-1778.
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Zolovska B, Bursztajn HJ. Are
You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates. American
J Psychiatry, 2005; 162(4).
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Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ. Offender
Profiling: An Introduction to the Sociopsychological Analysis of
Violent Crime. Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163:3:2-3.
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Haque OS, Bursztajn HJ. Counseling
and Psychotherapy Essentials: Integrating Theories, Skills, and Practices.
Am J Psychiatry 2007; 164(6):984.
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Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ. Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law.
JAMA 2007;298:1224-1225.
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Haque OS, Bursztajn HJ. Consent to Treatment: A Practical Guide.
JAMA 2007;298:1569-1571.