• Informed Consent &
  Malpractice
• Employment Litigation
  ADA - Disability - Sexual Misconduct
  Discrimination - Worker's Compensation
• Emotional &
  Physical Damages
  Conscious Pain & Suffering
  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  Neuropsychiatry and Brain Imaging
• Standards for Experts
• Product Liability
  Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals
  Toxic Tort
• Criminal Justice &
  Public Safety
  Diminished Capacity - Drug Addiction
  Competency to Confess
  Death Penalty Mitigation
  Workplace Safety
• Family & Custody Issues
• Testamentary &
  Contractual Capacity
• Professional &
  Organizational Ethics
  Patient Care - Managed Care - Privacy
• Psychoanalysis &
  Cultural Perspectives

Recommended Resources

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  Click to order Dr. Bursztajn's classic text Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty

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  Click to order Divided Staffs, Divided Selves by Stanley Joel Reiser, Harold J. Bursztajn, Paul S. Appelbaum, and Thomas G. Gutheil. Ethical decision making in the context of conflicting values takes on a fresh immediacy when the self itself is in conflict.

• State Justice Institute (SJI) National Benchbook Project on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence & Testimony. An excellent introduction to the post-Daubert influenced increase in judicial gatekeeping and discretion regarding expert testimony. Expert panel includes Dr. Bursztajn. To order call the American Bar Association: (202) 662-1570
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  Click to Order "Medical-Legal Issues and Psychiatric Consultation" by Deaton R, Colenda CC, Bursztajn, HJ., in the text, Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient (Oxford University Press, 1993)

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  Click to Order Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law, 3rd Edition by Paul S. Appelbaum, MD and Thomas G. Gutheil, MD. (Lippincott, Wilkens & Wilkens, 2000) The Rosetta Stone of psychiatry and the law, revised and updated.

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  Click to Order Follow the Yellow Brick Road - A Harvard Psychologist's Guide to Becoming a Superstar by Dr. Bursztajn's friend and colleague M.S. White, PhD, JD. (Work Intelligence, Inc., 2007)

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  Click to order Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions by Hammond JS, Keeney RL, and Raiffa H. (Harvard Business School Press: 1999) Decision making.

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  Click to order Leading Change by John Kotter. (Harvard Business School Press: 1998) Organizational.

• Click to order Mental Hospital by Alfred H. Stanton & Morris S. Schwartz. (Basic Books, New York: 1954) A must for understanding inpatient psychiatric staff errors.
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  Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors by Robert Krell & Marc I. Sherman. Remarkable for its scope and ongoing relevance to understanding extreme trauma and subsequent healing and growth throughout the life cycle.

  Click to order Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors

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  Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness by Sander L. Gilman. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 1985) Prejudice revisited.

  Click to order Difference and Pathology

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  Managing Patient Expectations by Susan Keane Baker. (Jossey Bass, 1998) Important for managed care.

  Click to order Managing Patient Expectations

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  Click to order The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom: Selected Papers of Bernard L. Diamond, M.d. by Bernard L. Diamond, Jacques M. Quen (Editor) (Analytic Press, NJ 1994) A good place to start on issues related to consultation related to public safety & criminal conduct.

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  Click to order Robert Simon's Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream (American Psychiatric Press, 1996, Washington, D.C.) An interesting perspective.

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  Click to order Tom Gutheil's The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness (APA 1998). An interesting guide as to what an expert witness' role is in providing an objective and informed perspective in the courtroom.

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  Testifying in Court : Guidelines and Maxims for the Expert Witness by Stanley L. Brodsky. A useful antidote for preventing the harassment of experts by attorneys who, when the facts fail them, resort to ad hominem attacks. I expect all those interested in promoting honesty and objectivity in the courtroom will use this as a text.

  Click to order Testifying in Court: Guidelines and Maxims for the Expert Witness

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  Click to order Genetics of Mental Disorders: A Guide for Students, Clinician, and Researchers by Stephen V. Faraone, Ming T. Tsuang, and Debbie W. Tsuang. (The Guilford Press, 1999). A wonderful introduction to the future of psychiatric genetics research and practice.

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  Click to order The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial by Michael L. Perlin. Details the roots of sanism and pretextuality and how these two phenomena have distorted and corrupted mental disability law.

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  Click to order Does Psychoanalysis Work? by Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, MD, Henry Bachrach, PH.D., Alan Skolnikoff, MD, Sherwood Waldon Jr., MD. A highly intelligent, balanced view of research into the outcome of analytic treatment.

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  Click to order Who Killed King Tut?: Using Modern Forensics to Solve a 3300-Year-Old Mystery by Michael R. King, Gregory M. Cooper and Don DeNevi with a preface by Dr. Bursztajn.

• Program for Young Negotiators designed to build negotiation skills in both teachers and students. The book, Young Negotiators, teachers edition By Jared R. Curhan is a wonderful guide to negotiating conflict resolution in the best interest of a just, non-violent community. (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998, Boston, MA).
• Pharmacoethics is dedicated to the exploration of ethical issues related to the development, promotion, sales, prescription, and use of pharmaceuticals.
• Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychiatry Dr. Maurice Preter combining Psychiatry and Neurology.
• Gift from Within is an International private non-profit organization for survivors dedicated to those who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Historical Resources

Freud in New England

Dr. Bursztajn joins The Boston College Honors Program on April 21, 2004 honoring Sigmund Freud on his only visit in 1909 to America and to New England delivering five lectures on Psychoanalysis.

Other Psychiatry and Medicine Resources

• American Association of Community Psychiatrists' Guidelines for Psychiatric Leadership
• American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• American Board of Medical Specialties
• American Psychiatric Association
• APsaA: The American Psychoanalytic Association
• American Society of Addiction Medicine
• Stephen A. Berman, MD The informative web site of a Dartmouth School Medical School Neurology Professor, testifying neurology expert, and one of Dr. Bursztajn's many distinguished co-authors
• British Medical Journal
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Network
• The Center for Health Design
• Claims.com
• Audio-Digest Foundation Provides audio CME & CE.
• Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship
• The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education.
• Dual Diagnosis Website Information on co-occuring mental illness and substance disorders, including articles and chapters, upcoming events, program development and training, treatment program directories, interactive bulletin board, live chat, bibliography, and more
• Dynamic Medical (DynaMed)
• Rob M. Hamm, Ph.D. A very helpful overview of clinical decision making.
• Harvard Medical School's Publications Online
• HMS-vetted information about specific diseases and the Harvard medical community’s efforts to conquer them. In addition to answering basic questions about disease physiology and management, our “disease pages” offer consumers updated information about research by Harvard medical faculty, as well as links to reliable sources of additional information.
• HealthWorld Online
• HealthyGenius.com
• American Hypnosis Clinic Informative website on hypnotherapy.
• Implicit Association Test created by Mahzarin Banaji

  Many of us are asking today ask what contributions we can make as clinicians, forensic experts, and scientists to dispute resolution and informed tolerance. This web site at Yale lets you discover "attitudes you would not reveal to your closest friend."

• Massachusetts Medical Society
• Mayo Clinic
• Internet Mental Health
• Mount Holyoke College film series featuring "Experiencing Madness" with a short summary of each film and ordering information.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse List of commonly abused drugs.
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Peoples Medical Organization
• Pharmacoethics is dedicated to the exploration of ethical issues related to the development, promotion, sales, prescription, and use of pharmaceuticals.
• Psychwatch
• Schizophrenics Anonymous
• The 1-800-THERAPIST NETWORK is a congressionally awarded, international (US and Canada) therapist referral organization. They provide many unique self-help tools and articles including psychology tests, which are evaluated at no charge.

Full texts of some Psychological "Classics" available online

• A Beautiful Mind The Autobiography of John F. Nash (1994) posted on the Nobel Foundation Web Site
• Freud, Sigmund (1900) The interpretation of dreams (3rd ed.) The classic psychoanalytic work on dreams.
• Freud, Sigmund (1901) The psychopathology of everyday life. The classic psychoanalytic account of the underlying meaning of slips of the tongue, forgotten names, etc.
• Freud, Sigmund (1910) The origin and development of psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychology, 21, 181-218. Freud's lectures at Clark University; the introduction of psychoanalysis to North America.

Legal Resources

• American Bar Association
• American Law Institute ¦ American Bar Assocation
• ADA Infonet
• Atlanta Bar Association
• American Association for Justice
• Cornell University Legal Material - by Topic at Cornell University
• Death Penalty Representation Project. Created by the American Bar Association in 1986, aims to raise awareness about the lack of representation available to daeth row inmates, to address this urgent need by recruiting competent volunteer attorneys and to offer these volunteers training and assistant.
• DivorceNet.com
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The home site of the EEOC, this site contains descriptions of various employment-related discrimination, the laws from which anti-discrimination policies arise, and appropriate responses to discrimination.
• Expert Witness Network
• ExpertPages.com
• Fox & Robertson, P.C.
• Hieros Gamos
• JurisPro.com
• LawGuru.com
• LawInfo.com
• Law & Policy Institutions Guide. Law & Policy Institutions Guide is a legal research site with an informative synopsis of each link to guide the user to the appropriate resource. Excellent resources and a searchable database. Besides legal content this site contains government, politics, medical and reference information.
• The 'Lectric Law Library
• LexisNexis
• McKenna, Law, & Aldridge, LLP
• New York Law School now offers an Online Program in Mental Disability Law
• Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Peter Tillers, J.D. A Bayesian based legal decision making web page.
• The Spence Law Firm, LLC emphasizes personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, criminal and business litigation - as well as workplace, automobile, defective product, toxic, recreational, and reputation injuries, class actions, civil rights, and employment discrimination.
• University of Washington School of Law - Seattle CLE
• West Publishing: Law School Publishing
• Frenkenfeld Associates Interactice The Essential Economic Resource for Lawyers

Other Forensic Web Sites

• American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
• David M. Benjamin, Ph.D. Pharmacology of drugs, pharmaceutical legal issues, Alternative Dispute Resolution (case evaluation, mediation, arbitration) re toxic torts and related cases; educational programs.
• Steven H. Berger, MD Board Certified in General Psychiatry & Forensic Psychiatry
• Creative Services, Inc. is a national firm that partners with clients to minimize hiring and corporate security risks through cost-effective comprehensive, custom-designed employment screening and security consulting. Hiring right is a company's first and best defense.
• Forensic Nursing Consultation, provides a wide range of services that integrate forensic science and health care. Areas of expertise include: Violence Risk, Licensed Facility and Practitioner Standards of Care, Addictions and Substance Abuse, Asylum, Witholding of Removal, and VAWA Petitions, Sexual Assault, Wrongful Death, etc.
• The Institute of Investigative Science provides police and corrections officials with specialized training and offers consulting, criminal investigative analysis and expert witness services in the investigation of crime scene analysis, criminal behavior and profiling of serial offenders. The Institute conducts research and provides insight and investigative protocols to all areas of law enforcement. The Institute founders and instructors, and their unique techniques have received media attention from all around the world.
• National Center for Victims of Crime
• Policy Information Exchange The PIE is a service of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, a leading center for policy, research, and training. It strives to provide a comprehensive, web-based source for information related to mental health, substance abuse, and disability policy, including a searchable database of over 5,000 documents.
• Psychiatry and Law Updates An education and communication service for forensic, legal and judicial professionals by Dr. William Reid.
• Seif & Associates, Medical Graphics specializing in the creation of high-quality demonstrative evidence for the defense of medical malpractice cases. An award winning leader in their outstanding work in the area of medical-legal illustration.

  Monthly newsletter Discovery is a valuable educational tool.

Miscellanous Informational Web Sites

• Harvard Magazine
• New York Times
• The New York Times Science Section
• Princeton Alumni Weekly