Publications by Harold J. Bursztajn
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ. The role of a training protocol in formulating patient instructions as to terminal care choices. J Med Educ. 1977; 52:347-348.
- Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. Medical maxims: two views of science. Yale J Biol Med. 1979; 52:483-486.
- Bursztajn HJ, Hamm RM. The clinical utility of utility assessment. Med Decision Making. 1982; 2:162-165.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hamm RM, Clark JA, Bursztajn HJ. Psychiatrists' thorny judgments: describing and improving decision-making processes. Med Decision Making. 1984; 4:425-447.
- Bursztajn HJ, Barsky AJ. Facilitating patient acceptance of a psychiatric referral. Arch Intern Med. 1985; 145:73-75.
- Bursztajn HJ. More law and less protection: "critogenesis," "legal iatrogenesis," and medical decision-making. J Geriat Psychiatry. 1985; 18:143-153.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Warren MJ, Brodsky A. Depression, self-love, time, and the "right" to suicide. Gen Hospital Psychiatry. 1986; 8:91-95.
- Bursztajn HJ. Ethicogenesis. Gen Hospital Psychiatry. 1986; 8:422-424.
- 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.
- Pavlo AM, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Levi LM. Weighing religious beliefs in determining competence. Hospital and Community Psychiatry. 1987; 38:350-352.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Hamm RM, Brodsky A, Mills M. Parens Patriae considerations in the commitment process. Psychiatric Quart. 1988; 59:3:165-181.
- Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A, Swagerty E. Magical thinking, suicide, and malpractice litigation. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 1988; 16:369-376.
- Bursztajn HJ. Flight: the eloquence of silence. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. 1989; 62:3:45-47.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deaton RJS, Illingworth PML, Bursztajn HJ. Unanswered questions about the criminalization of therapist-patient sex. Am J Psychotherapy. 1992; 46:526-531.
- Bursztajn HJ. From PSDA to PTSD: The patient self-determination act and post-traumatic stress disorder. J Clinical Ethics. 1993; 4:71-74.9
- 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.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Authenticity and autonomy in the managed care era: forensic psychiatric perspectives. J Clinical Ethics. 1994; 5:237-242.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Clear, convincing, and authentic advance directives in the context of managed care? J Clinical Ethics. 1994; 5:364-366.
- Bursztajn HJ. Reflections on my father's experience with doctors during the Shoah (1939-1945). J Clinical Ethics. 1996; 7:100-102.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. A new resource for managing malpractice risks in managed care. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1996; 156:2057-2063.
- 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.
- Bernstine EG, Bursztajn HJ, Wilkens J. Effective use of scientific evidence: lessons from the Simpson trial. Scientific Evidence. Winter 1997; 22-28.
- 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, Inc, March 1997; 4.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Ethical and legal dimensions of benzodiazepine prescription. Psychiatric Annals. 1998; 28(3): 121-128.
- Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Brodsky A. Ethics and the triage model in managed care hospital psychiatry. Psychiatric Times. 1998; 15(9): 33-40.
- Bursztajn HJ, Sobel R. Accountability without health care data banks. Health Affairs. 1998; 17(6): 252-253.
- Bursztajn HJ. Melatonin therapy: from benzodiazepine-dependent insomnia to authenticity and autonomy. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1999; 159 (20): 2393-2395.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Captive patients, captive doctors: clinical dilemmas and interventions in caring for patients in managed health care. General Hospital Psychiatry. 1999; 21, 239-248.
- 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.
- Bursztajn, HJ. Treatment for managed care pain. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. Autumn 1999: 9.
- Illingworth PI, Bursztajn HJ. Death with dignity or life with managed care uncertainty? Psychology, public policy, and law. 2000; 6(2): 314-241.
- Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A & Strasburg LH. Preventing "critogenic" harms: Minimizing emotional injury from civil litigation. J Psych & Law. Spring 2000, 28, 5-18.
- 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.
- 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.
- Schrecker T, Somerville MA, Acosta L, Bursztajn HJ. Social risk reduction. Social Science & Medicine 2001; 52: 1677-1687.
- Bursztajn HJ. Work Disability Prevention in the Midst of Mental Illness and Life’s Trauma. Psychiatric Services 2001; 52:1421.
- Bursztajn HJ. Protecting Patient Care and Public Safety in the Managed-Care Era. General Hospital Psychiatry, Elsevier Science Inc., 24 (2002) 1-3.
- Bursztajn HJ. Managed-Health-Care Complications Liability Rise, and Clinical Remedies. Primary Psychiatry, (3/2002) in print.
- Bursztajn HJ, Paul RK, Reiss DM, Hamm RM. Forensic psychiatric evaluation of workers' compensation claims in a managed-care context. Journal American Academy Psychiatry Law. 2003; 31:117-119.
- Bursztajn HJ, Sobel R, Allbright, A Protecting Privacy in the Behavioral Genetics Era, 27 Mental & Physical Disability L. Rep. 523 (American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law 2003)
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Deaton RJS. 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 edition. Washington DC: The Bureau of National Affairs, 2001; 50-71.
Book Chapters
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, Inc., 1994; 85-101.
- 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 Publishers, 1994; 95-107.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM, eds. Psychiatric Secrets. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., 1996; 501-515.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM, eds. Psychiatric Secrets, 2nd ed., Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., 2000; 485-498.
- Bursztajn HJ. Protecting patient care and public safety in the managed-care era. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2002; 24:1-3.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Captive patients, captive doctors: clinical dilemmas and interventions in caring for patients in managed health care. General Hospital Psychiatry 1999; 21:239-248.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM (eds.), Psychiatric Secrets (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 2001; 485-498.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Managed-health-care complications, liability risks, and clinical remedies. Primary Psychiatry. 2002; 4:37-41.
Books
- Reiser SJ, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Appelbaum PS. Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- 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.
- Gutheil TG, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A, Alexander V, eds. Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1991.
- Bursztajn HJ. Preface: Who Killed King Tut? In: King, MR, Cooper, GM. Who killed king tut? Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.
COURSE CO-DIRECTOR AND FACULTY
- Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and Massachusetts Mental Health Center:
- "Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice," September 1990
- "Sex Between Clinicians and Patients: Clinical, Legal and Medico-Legal Perspectives," September 1990
- "Malpractice Prevention for the 1990s: An Update on the Issues and Practical Approaches," January 1991
- "The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide," January 1992
- "Dangers and Pitfalls of Forensic Practice," January 1992
- "Liability Prevention for Medical and Surgical Practitioners: Trends and Update," January, 1993.
- "Doctors and Nurses in Court: A Basic Survival Guide," January, 1993.
- "Malpractice in the 1990s: Trends and Update," February, 1993.
- "The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide," February, 1993.
- Massachusetts Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Course:
- "Nuts and Bolts of Using Medical Experts at Trial," November 1990
FACULTY
- Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and Massachusetts Mental Health Center:
- "Intensive Diagnostic Interviewing," 1990-
PRESENTATIONS
- "Prevention of Violence and Suicide by the High Risk Patient," Mount Auburn Hospital Grand Rounds, Cambridge, MA, September 15, 1992.
- "Malpractice Prevention," Brookside Hospital Grand Rounds, Nashua, New Hampshire, March 15, 1993.
- "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Courtroom," Panel, American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, California, May 26, 1993.
- "Psychiatry Issues," Medical Malpractice Seminar for Office of Legal Education, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13, 1993.
- "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, Utah, July 13, 1993.
- "Competency to Confess to a Criminal Act," American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993.
- "Malpractice Prevention in High Risk Doctor-Patient Encounters," Lawrence General Hospital, Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 18, 1994.
- "Forensic Psychiatric Assessment of Mental Damages," Discussant, Panel, American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1994.
- "What is Forensic Psychiatry?: A Guide for Judges." New Hampshire Bar Association Meeting, January 27, 1995.
- "Diminished Capacity in the Criminal Justice System." Seventh Annual Bridgewater State Hospital Conference, April 7, 1995.
- "Fact vs. Expert Witness." Workshop, The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide, Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education, April 8, 1995.
- "Medical Choices, Managed Care and Uncertainty." Medical Staff Conference, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, June 9, 1995.
- "Behavioral Strategies for Malpractice Prevention in a Managed Care Era." Medical Grand Rounds, Marlborough Hospital, Marlborough, MA, November 30, 1995.
- "Violence Against Attorneys, Judges, and Litigants in the Family Law Courtroom." Boston Bar Association, Family Law Section, December 1995.
- "Violence in the Courtroom." Annual Conference of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Judges, Stockbridge, MA, May 10, 1996.
- "How to be an Ethical and Effective Medical Witness, Post-Daubert." National Expert Witness and Litigation Seminar, Hyannis, MA, June 20, 1996.
- "Effective and Ethical Testimony for Mental Health Professionals." Testifying and Consulting Experts, San Francisco, CA, September 1996.
- "Being an Ethical and Effective Medical Expert." Testifying and Consulting Experts, San Francisco, CA, September 1996.
- "Dimensions of a Forensic Psychiatric Home Page." American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1996.
- "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.
- "Preventing Malpractice Litigation in Managed Health Care Settings." Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education, November 22, 1996.
- "Ethical and Effective Testimony for Physicians Accused of Malpractice." Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education, November 23, 1996.
- "Ethical and Decision Making Issues in Primary Care Medicine in a Managed Care Context." Vermont Technical College, Vermont Ethics Network, February 10, 1997.
- "Surreptitious LSD Administration: Ethical, Toxicologic and Psychiatric Impact on Product Liability Issues." American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 19, 1997.
- "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
- "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.
- "Capital Punishment in the Mcveigh Case." BBC World Services. Cambridge, MA, June 13, 1997.
- "Managed Health Care: Protecting the Quality of Care in the Clinic and the Courtroom." Saints Memorial Medical Center, Lowell, MA, July 9, 1997.
- "Why Do They Do It? Motivation of Violent Criminals." National Association of Legal Secretaries Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, Boston, MA, July 26, 1997.
- "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.
- "High Risk Patients and Families in Chronic Illness Situations." Physicians' Meeting, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, October 8, 1997.
- "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.
- "Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Imaging." Harvard Medical School, Advanced Workshop, "Liability Prevention" postgraduate course, Boston, MA, November 22, 1997.
- "Sexual Harassment Post Daubert." Presidential Panel, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, February, 1998.
- "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.
- "Values in the Physician Patient Managed Health Care Relationship." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 1, 1998.
- "Employment Disability and Accommodation Dilemmas." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 4, 1998.
- "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.
- "Boundary Violations: How are they defined in the patient-physician relationship?" Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, MA, October 7, 1998.
- "Risk Management: How to reduce medical malpractice suits," Sheraton-Newton Hotel, October 10-11, 1998.
- "Post-Daubert Sexual Harassment Expert," 1998 Annual Meeting Program, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 22, 1998.
- "Functional Brain Imaging and Criminal Behavior," with Lisa Acosta, BA, 1998 Annual Meeting Program, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 23, 1998.
- "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.
- "Ethical and Legal Issues in Managed Health Care." Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, November 11, 1998.
- "Ethical & Technical Effects of Daubert on Expert's Opinions." Harvard Medical School: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide." Boston, MA, November 21, 1998.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Boundary Violations: How to Avoid the Slippery Slope." The Massachusetts Medical Society. Holyoke, MA, March 10, 1999.
- "Clinical Responses to Managed Health Care." American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C., May 18, 1999.
- "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.
- "Clinical Ethics and Shared Decision-Making with Patients and Their Families." Healthcare Educational and Research Fund and Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga, NY, September 18, 1999
- "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, 1999.
- "Brain Imaging and Child Development." Watertown Public School, Watertown, MA, November 4, 1999.
- "Premises Liability: Ethical and Effective Psychological and Psychiatric Evaluation Post-Daubert." ICLE, Atlanta, Georgia, November 5, 1999.
- "Ethical & Technical effects of Daubert on Expert’s Opinions." Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA, December 11, 1999.
- "Legal Issues of Psychopharmacology." Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, April 21, 2000.
- "Maintaining your credibility & integrity." SEAK Inc., Nat’l Expert Witness & Litigation Seminar, Hyannis, Cape Cod, June 16, 2000.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Talking to pre-K to Grade 6 children about 9/11" Atrium School Consultation, Watertown, Ma 9/11/2001.
- "Protecting Human Research Subjects: Ethical, Regulatory and Scientific Considerations", Massachusetts College of Pharmacy", October 15, 2001.
- " ‘The Shoah and its Aftermath on Film’ Thoughts on professional ethics" American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law, 31st Annual AAPL, A/V session, October 26, 2001.
- "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.
- "The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Spectrum for Physicians and Surgeons" CME Grand Rounds, Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH April 2002.
- " ‘Our Children’ ": The aftermath of becoming an orphan post the Shoah" A/V Presentation American Psychiatric Association. Philadelphia, May 2002.
- "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, Feb 21, 2002.
PROFESSIONAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ. The phobic in court. Lawyers Weekly, December 7, 1992.
- Bursztajn HJ. The role of a forensic psychiatrist in legal proceedings. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 1, No. 2, October, 1993.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ. Traumatic memories as evidence: true or false? J Mass Acad Trial Attys, March 15, 1994.
- Bursztajn HJ. The role of the forensic psychiatrist in civil proceedings. (New Hampshire) Trial Bar News 16, Summer 1994:84-86.
- Bursztajn HJ. Psychiatric experts in victim litigation. Crime Victims' Litigation Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1995.
- Bursztajn HJ. Supervisory negligence litigation in context. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, Vol. 2, No. 2, October, 1994.
- 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.
- Saunders LS, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Recovered memory and managed care: HB 236's post-Daubert "science" junket. Trial Bar News 17, Spring 1995:27-37.
- Bursztajn HJ, Joshi PT, Sutherland SM, Tomb DA (Article Consultants). Recognizing posttraumatic stress. Patient Care, March 30, 1995.
- Bursztajn HJ, Hilliard JT. Violence Against Attorneys and Judges: Protecting Yourself Before and After a Threat. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, July, 1995.
- Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Daubert without prejudice: Achieving relevance and reliability without randomness. J Mass Acad Trial Attys, January 1996:54-58.
- Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Keeping a jury involved during a long trial. Criminal Justice, Vol. 11, 1997:8-9.
- Bursztajn, HJ. Criminalizing doctor-assisted suicide isn’t a cure. The Boston Globe, January 9, 1997.
- Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Responsibility without scapegoating. Health Decisions, A Publication of The Vermont Ethics Network, May 1997, Vol. 5, No. 1.
- 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.
- Bursztajn HJ, Saunders LS, Brodsky A. Medical negligence and informed consent in the managed care era. Health Lawyer. 1997; 9(5): 14-17.
- Bernstine EG, Bursztajn, HJ, Wilkens J. Emotional justice: further lessons from the Simpson trial. J Mass Acad Trial Attys. Spring 1997: 18-26.
- Bursztajn HJ. Preventing neo-nazi cult violence in our schools. Jewishfamily.com. 1999.
- Bursztajn, HJ. Treatment for managed care pain. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. Autumn 1999: 9.
- Bursztajn HJ, Joshi PT, Sutherland SM, Tomb DA (Article Consultants). Recognizing posttraumatic stress. Patient Care, October 15, 1999. (second Edition)
- Bursztajn, HJ, Sobel R. Ban Genetic Discrimination. Boston Globe, August 7, 2000.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Bursztajn HJ. Efficacy research and psychodynamic psychiatry. Am J Psychiatry. 1991; 148:817-818.
- Bursztajn HJ. Competency to make a will. Am J Psychiatry. 1992; 149:10:1415.
- Bursztajn HJ. Protecting Patients from clinician-patient sexual contact. Am J Psychiatry. 1992; 149:9:1276.
- Bursztajn HJ. An overview of sexual harassment. Am J Psychiatry. 1995; 152:3:478.
- Bursztajn, HJ. Criminalizing doctor-assisted suicide isn't a cure. The Boston Globe, January 9, 1997
- Bursztajn HJ. Psychotherapist versus expert witness. Am J Psychiatry. 1998; 155:2:307.
- Bursztajn HJ. Recovered Memories. Psychiatric Services. 1998; 49:5:699-700.
- Bursztajn HJ. On the goals of the Freud Library of Congress Museum Exhibition. New York Times Magazine. November 1, 1998:Section 6:20.
- Bursztajn HJ. Treatment research at the crossroads: the scientific interface of clinical trials and effectiveness research. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 1999.
- Bursztajn HJ. When Health Care Goes Lacking. The New York Times. August 4, 1999.
- Bursztajn HJ. Suspicious Trials in Iran. The New York Times. May 9, 2000.
- Bursztajn HJ. Princeton University Faculty. Princeton Alumni Weekly. May 17, 2000.
- Bursztajn HJ. Reducing Clinical Research Risks. New York Times, August 1, 2001.
- Bursztajn HJ. Bio-War: Best Defense is a Good Offense" Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2001
- Bursztajn HJ. An Offensive Against Bioterrorism, The Boston Globe, October 4, 2001
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS
- Bursztajn HJ. Managing Care, Not Dollars: The Continuum of Mental Health Services. Am J Psychiatry. 1998; 155:7:985.
- Bursztajn HJ. Managing Managed Care. Am J Psychiatry. 1999; 156:1:148.