HaroldJ.BursztajnMD

PubMed

• Industry influence on mental health research: depression as a case example.
  Cosgrove, L., Patterson, E., Bursztajn, H.> ;Frontiers in Medicine. 2023 Jan 1
• Industry effects on evidence: a case study of long-acting injectable antipsychotics.
  Lisa Cosgrove, Barbara Mintzes, Harold J Bursztajn, Gianna D'Ambrozio, Allen F Shaughnessy> ;Accountability in Research. 2024 Dec 1
• Detoxifying the Fear of Epigenetic Changes Due to COVID Vaccination.
  Hansen Tang, Gen Tanaka, Terry Unterman, Harold Bursztajn> ;The American Journal of Medicine. 2022 Jun 1
• 6 citations
  Who Cares What the Doctor Feels: The Responsibility of Health Politics for Burnout in the Pandemic
  Jasna Karacic, Harold J. Bursztajn, Marianna Arvanitakis> ;Healthcare. 2021 Nov 15
• 3 citations
  Long-acting antipsychotics: is what we know really so?
  Lisa Cosgrove, Barbara Mintzes, Harold J. Bursztajn, Allen F. Shaughnessy> ;The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2021 Aug 1
• Preserve Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) as a diagnostic resource
  Gen Tanaka, Hansen Tang, Omar Sultan Haque, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2018 May 1
• 13 citations
  Antipsychotic augmentation for major depressive disorder: A review of clinical practice guidelines
  Peter Simons, Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 2017 Nov 1
• 15 citations
  Conflicts of Interest and the Presence of Methodologists on Guideline Development Panels: A Cross-Sectional Study of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Major Depressive ...
  Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy, Shannon M. Peters, Joel Lexchin, Harold J. Bursztajn, Lisa Bero> ;Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2017 Jan 1
• Back to the Future.
  Mohiuddin Ahmed, Harold J Bursztajn, Ronald D Abramson> ;Psychiatric Services. 2016 May 1
• 4 citations
  Is helplessness still helpful in diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder
  Ekaterina Pivovarova, Gen Tanaka, Michael Tang, Harold J. Bursztajn, Michael B. First> ;The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2016 Jan 1
• An alternative name for schizophrenia
  Mohiuddin Ahmed, Harold J. Bursztajn, Ronald Abramson, Steven Nisenbaum> ;The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2014 Sep 1
• 15 citations
  Direct-to-Patient Laboratory Test Reporting: Balancing Access With Effective Clinical Communication
  Michael J. Young, Ethan Scheinberg, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;JAMA. 2014 Jul 9
• 2 citations
  Recognizing Misleading Pharmaceutical Marketing Online
  Julian De Freitas, Brian A. Falls, Omar Sultan Haque, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2014 Jun 1
• 50 citations
  Conflicts of interest and the quality of recommendations in clinical guidelines.
  Lisa Cosgrove, Harold J. Bursztajn, Deborah R. Erlich, Emily E. Wheeler, Allen F. Shaughnessy> ;Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2013 Aug 1
• 11 citations
  Vulnerabilities to misinformation in online pharmaceutical marketing
  Julian De Freitas, Brian A. Falls, Omar Sultan Haque, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2013 May 1
• 6 citations
  Dynamic informed consent processes vital for treatment with antidepressants.
  Abilash A. Gopal, Lisa Cosgrove, Itay Shuv-Ami, Emily E. Wheeler, Melissa J. Yerganian, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 2012 Sep 1
• 10 citations
  Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early
  Omar Sultan Haque, Julian De Freitas, Ivana Viani, Bradley Niederschulte, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 2012 Sep 1
• Clinical wisdom and evidence-based medicine are (indeed) complementary: a reply to Bursztajn and colleagues.
  Baum-Baicker C Sisti DA > ;J Clin Ethics . 2012 Spring
• 15 citations
  The American Psychiatric Association’s Guideline for Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary
  Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy, Emily E. Wheeler, Kirsten Austad, Irving Kirsch, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2012 Apr 12
• How careproviders can acquire and apply greater wisdom.
  Howe EG > ;J Clin Ethics . 2012 Spring
• 24 citations
  Emerging perspectives on adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, violence, and criminal law.
  Matthew D. Lerner, Omar Sultan Haque, Eli C Northrup, Lindsay Lawer, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2012 Apr 1
• 19 citations
  Emerging perspectives on adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, violence, and criminal law.
  Matthew D. Lerner, Omar Sultan Haque, Eli C Northrup, Lindsay Lawer, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2012 Apr 1
• 5 citations
  Response: Clinical wisdom and evidence-based medicine are complementary.
  Julian De Freitas, Omar Sultan Haque, Abilash A. Gopal, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2012 Jan 1
• 3 citations
  Commentary: The Public Health Consequences of an Industry-Influenced Psychiatric Taxonomy: “Attenuated Psychotic Symptoms Syndrome” as a Case Example
  Abilash A. Gopal, Lisa Cosgrove, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;Accountability in Research. 2010 Oct 1
• 6 citations
  Strengthening conflict‐of‐interest policies in medicine
  Lisa Cosgrove, Harold J. Bursztajn> ;Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2010 Feb 1
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Journal Articles

• Death with dignity or life with managed care uncertainty?  
  Illingworth PI, Bursztajn HJ, Psychol Public Policy Law
• Preventing “critogenic” harms: Minimizing emotional injury from civil litigation.  
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Strasburger LH, J Psychol Law
• Physicians indicated the need to frame questions and develop indirect approaches that foster patient trust in evaluating victims of domestic violence.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Evid Based Ment Health
• Cognitive behavioural therapy, systemic behavioural family therapy, and non-directive supportive therapy had similar long term effectiveness for major depressive dis...  
  Bursztajn HJ, Evid Based Ment Health
• The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain.  
  Schrecker T, Acosta L, Somerville MA, Bursztajn HJ, Soc Sci Med
• Work disability prevention in the midst of mental illness and life’s trauma.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Psychiatr Serv
• Protecting patient care and public safety in the managed-care era.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Gen Hosp Psychiatry
• Managed-health-care complications, liability risks, and clinical remedies.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Prim Psychiatry
• The ethics of mentallyimpaired patient termination in captive situations.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, University of Maryland School of Law
• Forensic psychiatric evaluation of workers' compensation claims in a managed-care context.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Paul RK, Reiss DM, Hamm RM, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
• Who killed Julius Caesar?  
  Bursztajn HJ, The American Psychoanalyst
• Protecting privacy in the behavioral genetics era.  
  Bursztajn, HJ, Sobel, R, Ment Phys Disabil Law
• Avoiding ipse dixit mislabeling.  
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
• Just say no.  
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hilliard JT, Brodsky A, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
• Experts’ late withdrawal from cases to preserve independence and objectivity.  
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hilliard JT, Brodsky A, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
• Attorney abuses of Dauberthearings: Junk science, junk law, or just plain obstruction?  
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
• Are prisoners medical captives?  
  Pirikitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ, LJN’s BioEthics Legal Review
• Informed consent in neuropsychosocialpharmacology.  
  Gopal A, Pirakitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ, Psychiatr Times
• The grand inquisitor’s choice: Comment on the CEJA report on withholding information from patients.  
  Pirakitikulr D, Bursztajn HJ, J Clin Ethics
• Kumhofor clinicians in the courtroom: Inconsistency in the trial courts.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Pulde MF, Pirakitikulr D, Perlin M, Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy
• Undoing undueindustry influence: Lessons from psychiatry as psychopharmacology.  
  Cosgrove L, Bursztajn HJ, Organ Ethic
• Reducing the risk of addiction to prescribed medications.  
  Johnson B, Bursztajn HJ, Coletsos I, PaulR, Psychiatr Times
• On skepticism and tolerance in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.  
  Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ, Psychiatr Times
• Avoiding genetic gossip in the age of genetic testing.  
  Bursztajn HJ, Pirakitkulr D, J Clin Ethics
• DSM biases evident in clinical training and courtroom testimony.  
  Gopal A, Bursztajn HJ, Psychiatr Ann
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Books/Book Chapters

• Bringing the family into family practice. 
  Chapter: The Family: Setting Priorities 
  Page 169 - 179Feinbloom RI, Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky AEditors: Brazelton TB, Vaughn VC III.Science and Medicine Publishing Co, New York
• The technological target: involving the patient in clinical choices. 
  Chapter: The Machine at the Bedside: Strategies for Using Technology in Patient Care 
  Page 177 - 191Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Gutheil TGEditors: Reiser SJ, Anbar M.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
• Legal issues in inpatient psychiatry. 
  Chapter: Inpatient Psychiatry 
  Page 338 - 356Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Cummins BEditors: Sederer LI.Williams and Wilkins, BaltimoreEdition 2nd,,
• Probability, decision analysis, and conscious gambling. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 37 - 52Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Alexander V, Levi LEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Subjective assessment in clinical decision making and malpractice liability. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 53 - 68Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Gutheil TG, Alexander VEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Affective disorders, competence, and decision-making. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 153 - 170Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky AEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Managing uncertainty: the therapeutic alliance, informed consent, and liability. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 69 - 88Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander VEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Involuntary commitment. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 89 - 112Alexander V, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Hamm RM, Gutheil TG, Levi LEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Making treatment decisions. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 113 - 132Kaplan E, Bursztajn HJ, Alexander V, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Barnard D, Kaplan ANEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Deciding for others; autonomy and protection in tension. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 133 - 152Alexander V, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Gutheil TGEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Suicide, magical thinking, and liability. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 189 - 208Warren M, Commons ML, Gutheil TG, Swagerty EL, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Fear of malpractice liability and its role in clinical decision-making. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 209 - 226Hauser MJ, Commons ML, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TGEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Decision-making and the use of the telephone. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 227 - 238Canning S, Hauser MJ, Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Ethics and decisions about suicide. 
  Chapter: Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law 
  Page 239 - 256Commons ML, Sonnert G, Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJEditors: Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V.Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
• Medical-legal issues. 
  Chapter: Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient 
  Page 929 - 938Deaton RJS, Colenda CC, Bursztajn HJEditors: Stoudemire A, Fogel BS.Oxford University Press, New York
• Antipsychotic medication: regulation through the right to refuse. 
  Chapter: Psychiatric Practice Under Fire 
  Page 85 - 101Deaton R, Bursztajn HJEditors: Schwartz HI.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
• One axiom and eight corollaries for managing legal issues in an inpatient psychiatric setting. 
  Chapter: Inpatient Psychiatry in the 1990s 
  Page 95 - 107Bursztajn HJEditors: Docherty JP.Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
• Competence and insanity. 
  Chapter: Psychiatric Secrets 
  Page 501 - 515Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM.Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia
• Patients who sue and clinicians who are sued in the managed-care era. 
  Chapter: The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law 
  Page 237 - 249Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: Lifson LE, Simon RI.Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Ethical and effective testimony during direct examination and cross-examination post-Daubert. 
  Chapter: The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law 
  Page 262 - 280Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: Lifson LE, Simon RI.Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Medical negligence, lack of informedconsent, and choicelessness. 
  Chapter: 2000 Wiley Expert Witness Update 
  Page 239 - 264Bursztajn HJAspen Law Business/Panel Publishers, New York
• Competence and insanity. 
  Chapter: Psychiatric Secrets 
  Page 485 - 498Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM.Hanley & Belfus, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,
• The role of the mental health professional in employment litigation. 
  Chapter: Mental and Emotional Injuries in Employment Litigation 
  Page 50 - 71Deaton RJS, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky AEditors: McDonald JJ, Jr, Kulick FB.The Bureau of National Affairs, Washington DCEdition 2nd,
• A psychoanalytic perspective. 
  Chapter: Creating and Recreating Families in America Today 
  Page 315 - 330Bursztajn, HJ, Boersema, RREditors: Cath SH, Shopper M.Analytic Press, New York
• Who Killed King Tut? 
  Chapter: Who Killed King Tut? 
  Page 11 - 16Bursztajn HJEditors: King MR, Cooper GM.Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
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Lectures

• Medical Necessity, Managed Health CareDenial of Benefits, and the Nuremberg Code. 
  Professor Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., Princeton University 250 th Anniversary Symposium, Princeton,NJ
• Medical Ethics: Who Getsthe Care? 
  Professor Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., Princeton University 250 th Anniversary Symposium, Princeton,NJ
• Capital Punishment in the McVeigh Case. 
  BBC World Services. Cambridge, MA
• Managed Health Care: Protecting the Quality of Care in the Clinic and the Courtroom. 
  Saints Memorial Medical Center, Lowell, MA
• Why Do They Do It? Motivation of Violent Criminals. 
  National Association of Legal Secretaries Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, Boston, MA
• Substituting Alliance for Alienation: Supporting the Human Side in Changing Health Care. 
  Advanced Risk Management Seminar, New England Health Care Assembly, Falmouth, MA
• Clinical Ethics and Shared Decision-Making with Patients and Their Families. 
  Healthcare Educational and Research Fundand Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga, NY
• Working with High-Risk Patients and Families to Turn Alienation into Patient Loyalty. 
  Healthcare Educational and Research Fund and Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga, NY
• High-Risk Patients and Families in Chronic Illness Situations. 
  Physicians' Meeting, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA
• Protecting Yourself from Potential Litigation from Employees and Patients. 
  Harvard School of Public Health conference
• Leadership in Evolving Health Care Systems. 
  Boston, MA
• Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Imaging. 
  Harvard Medical School, Advanced Workshop
• Liability Prevention. 
  Boston, MA
• Sexual Harassment Post-Daubert. 
  Presidential Panel, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco, CA
• 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
• Values in the Physician-Patient-Managed Health Care Relationship. 
  American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
• Employment Disability and Accommodation Dilemmas. 
  American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
• Sexual Misconduct in Managed Health Care Settings. 
  Boston Psychoanalytic Society
• Sexual Misconduct byPsychotherapists, Other Health Care Professionals, and Clergy: Prevention and Treatment of Boundary Violations by Professionals. 
  Chestnut Hill, MA
• Boundary Violations: How are they defined in the patient-physician relationship? 
  Massachusetts Medical Society,Waltham, MA
• Risk Management: How to reduce medical malpractice suits. 
  Sheraton-Newton Hotel, Newton, MA
• Post-DaubertSexual Harassment Expert. 
  1998 Annual Meeting Program, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Functional Brain Imaging and Criminal Behavior. 
  1998 Annual Meeting Program, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans, LA
• Protecting Yourself from Potential Litigation from Employees and Patients. 
  Harvard School of Public Health
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Other

• Liability prevention through informed consent with some new approaches for the clinician. 
  Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Risk Management Foundation Forum
• Flight: the eloquence of silence. 
  Bursztajn HJ, Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin
• The phobic in court. 
  Bursztajn HJ, Lawyers Weekly
• Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 
  Bursztajn HJ. Ethicogenesis
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