Professor of Psychiatry, Mass Mental Health Center

Psychiatry

Thomas Gutheil works in the field of Psychiatry. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine Thomas Gutheil is a published physician as well. He has 101 publications published. The latest was: A date with death: management of time-based and contingent suicidal intent.

Publications

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• Promise and perils of digital psychiatry.
• Deposition Dos and Don'ts: Strategies for the Expert Witness.
• "There's something in my body that shouldn't be there": Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Treating Psychosis and HIV.
• On humanizing the expert witness: a proposed narrative approach to expert witness qualification.
• Commentary: Tarasoff duties arising from a forensic independent medical examination.
• Sudden improvement among high-risk suicidal patients: should it be trusted?
• "I can't let anything go:" A case study with psychological testing of a patient with pathologic hoarding.
• Robert L. Sadoff, MD: renaissance man of forensic psychiatry.
• Chronic suicidality in a physician: an alliance yet to become therapeutic.
• Common pitfalls in the evaluation of testamentary capacity.
• The problem of evasive testimony: the expert "waffle".
• Psychiatric expert witnesses in the new millennium.
• Commentary: Systems, sensitivity, and "sorry".
• Patients with boundary issues.
• An expert who listened to a telephonic deposition without announcing his presence.
• Clinicians' perceptions of boundaries in Brazil and the United States.
• Attorneys' requests for complete tax records from opposing expert witnesses: some approaches to the problem.
• A pilot Rasch scaling of lawyers' perceptions of expert bias.
• Robert I. Simon, MD: Of psychiatry, law, and books.
• Pejorative testimony about opposing experts and colleagues: "fouling one's own nest".
• Boundary issues and personality disorders.
• The history of forensic psychiatry.
• Attorney abuses of Daubert hearings: junk science, junk law, or just plain obstruction?
• Boundaries, blackmail, and double binds: a pattern observed in malpractice consultation.
• Narcissistic dimensions of expert witness practice.
• "The wrong handle": flawed fixes of medicolegal problems in psychiatry and the law.
• Psychiatrists as expert witnesses.
• Fundamentals of medical record documentation.
• Suicide, suicide litigation, and borderline personality disorder.
• "Just say no": experts' late withdrawal from cases to preserve independence and objectivity.
• Expert witness perceptions of bias in experts.
• Gender differences in the practice patterns of forensic psychiatry experts.
• Paraforensic aspects of expert witness practice.
• Countering countertransference, II: beyond evaluation to cross-examination.
• The whole truth versus the admissible truth.
• Harassment and intimidation of forensic psychiatrists: an update.
• Abandonment of patients in split treatment.
• This couldn't happen to me: boundary problems and sexual misconduct in the psychotherapy relationship.
• Avoiding ipse dixit mislabeling: post-Daubert approaches to expert clinical opinions.
• "The whole truth" versus "the admissible truth": an ethics dilemma for expert witnesses.
• Stress and the forensic psychiatrist: a pilot study.
• Reflections on coaching by attorneys.
• Non-sexual boundary crossings and boundary violations: the ethical dimension.
• Posttermination boundary issues.
• Telephone scatologia. Comorbidity with other paraphilias and paraphilia-related disorders.
• Discussion of Lazarus's "How certain boundaries and ethics diminish therapeutic effectiveness.
• Commentary on "Impairments and impediments in patients' decision making.
• Liver transplantation and the disliked patient: a clinical and ethical dilemma.
• The substituted judgment approach: its difficulties and paradoxes in mental health settings.
• The inappropriateness of "least restrictive alternative" analysis for involuntary procedures with the institutionalized mentally ill.
• Substituted judgement and the physician's ethical dilemma: with special reference to the problem of the psychiatric patient.
• The patient always pays: reflections on the Boston State case and the right to rot.
• The judge, the adversary posture, the rhetoric of generalization.
• Risk management and recovered memories.
• Ethical issues in sexual misconduct by clinicians.
• The misperceived duty to report patients' past crimes.
• Neglect of religious issues in scale-based assessment of suicidal patients.
• Misapplication of the Tarasoff duty to driving cases: a call for a reframing of theory.
• Informed consent in therapy.
• A patient's false claim of therapist sexual misconduct.
• The concept of boundaries in clinical practice: theoretical and risk-management dimensions.
• Final Exit and suicide assessment in a forensic setting.
• Moral state of reasoning and the misperceived "duty" to report past crimes (misprision).
• Sexuality in the mental health system. Patients and practitioners.
• Delayed traumatic recall in adults: a synthesis with legal, clinical, and forensic recommendations.
• Trading forensic and family commitments.
• Difficulties in integrating spirituality into psychotherapy.
• On wearing two hats: role conflict in serving as both psychotherapist and expert witness.
• Beyond the black letter of the law: an empirical study of an individual judge's decision process for civil commitment hearings.
• Ethical aspects of competence for sexual relationships: a case of adult sibling incest.
• [Work of breathing in noninvasive proportional assist ventilation in patients with respiratory insufficiency].
• On the therapy in clinical administration. Part I. Introduction and history; administration and its relation to psychotherapy.
• Expiratory flow limitation and intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure in obesity.
• Case involving issues similar to those in Osheroff.
• Prohibiting lawyer-client sex.
• Countering countertransference: a forensic trainee's dilemma.
• Firearm laws, patients, and the roles of psychiatrists.
• Apology, justice, and trauma recovery.
• From the neuropsychiatric to the analytic: three perspectives on dissociative identity disorder.
• Psychologists abandon the Nuremberg ethic: concerns for detainee interrogations.
• Contrasting ethical policies of physicians and psychologists concerning interrogation of detainees.
• Sanctity, secrecy, and silence: dilemmas in clinical confidentiality.
• E-mail and psychiatry: some psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic perspectives.
• "Mind control," "synthetic sanity," "artificial competence," and genuine confusion: legally relevant effects of antipsychotic medication.
• The treating psychiatrist thrust into the role of expert witness.
• Standards for informed consent in recovered memory therapy.
• A date with death: management of time-based and contingent suicidal intent.
• Documentation: burden or blessing?
• Talisman or taboo: the controversy of the suicide-prevention contract.
• A confusion of tongues: competence, insanity, psychiatry, and the law.
• Dementia as a risk factor for homicide.
• Attorneys' pressures on the expert witness: early warning signs of endangered honesty, objectivity, and fair compensation.
• The forensic psychiatrist as expert witness in malpractice cases.
• The presentation of forensic psychiatric evidence in court.
• Forensic psychiatrists' fee agreements: a preliminary empirical survey and discussion.
• Informed consent in psychotherapy.
• "Telling tales out of court": a pilot study of experts' disclosures about opposing experts.
• Gay panic.
• Adventures in the twilight zone: empirical studies of the attorney-expert relationship.
• Personal questions on cross-examination: a pilot study of expert witness attitudes.

Schools

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• HARVARD MED SCH

• Bronx Municipal Hospital Center

• Mass Mental Health Center

• Harvard University

Doctors Specialties

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• Forensic Psychiatry
• Psychiatry

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

Hospital

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• Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

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