Harold J. Bursztajn MD

Forensic Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine

Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Associate Professor (Part Time)

Summary

Dr. Harold Bursztajn is a psychiatrist in Cambridge, MA and is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and practices psychodynamically informed clinical and forensic psychiatry & neuropsychiatry, teaches and mentors. His special interests include the treatment of suffering, grief,and helplessness and promotion of resillience throughout the life cycle and transgenerationally, epigenetics, medical ethics, neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and personal and medical decision making under conditions of uncertainty.

Boston Psychoanalytic InstituteSpecial Graduate, 2005
Cambridge Health AllianceChief Residency, Psychiatry, 1981 - 1982
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 1979 - 1982
Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical SchoolResearch Fellow, 1978 - 1980
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1978 - 1979

Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2010
Nominee, Harvard Medical School Nominee for the AAMC’s National Humanism in Medicine Award 2008
A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award 2008

PubMed

3 citations
Legal and Ethics Concerns of Psilocybin as Medicine.
Stephanie M Schonholz, Jacob M Appel, Harold J Bursztajn, Mohan Nair, Michael R MacIntyre
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2024-12-12
1 citations
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. 2024-12-01
6 citations
Industry influence on mental health research: depression as a case example.
Lisa Cosgrove, Elissa H Patterson, Harold J Bursztajn
Frontiers in Medicine. 2023-01-01

Journal Articles

Unexpected clinical features of the Tarasoff decision: the therapeutic alliance and the “duty to warn".
Wulsin LR, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Am J Psychiatry
Subjective data and suicide assessment in the light of recent legal developments. Part I: Malpractice prevention and the use of subjective data.
Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Int J Law Psychiatry
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.
Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Int J Law Psychiatry

Books/Book Chapters

Post-mortem organ donation: Cultural aspects of death and burial traditions.
Chapter: Teaching Ethics in Organ Transplantation and Tissue Donation: Cases and movies
Page 40 - 41Haque OS, Bursztajn HJ, Gopal AEditors: Schicktanz S, Wiesemann C, Wöhlke S.Goettingen University Press, Goettingen
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

Lectures

Prevention of Violence and Suicide by the High-Risk Patient.
Mount Auburn Hospital Grand Rounds, Cambridge, MA
The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide.
Massachusetts Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Course
Malpractice Prevention.
Brookside Hospital Grand Rounds, Nashua, NH

Other

Gen Hosp Psychiatry.
Bursztajn HJ. Ethicogenesis
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