Thomas G. Gutheil MD - Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law

Thomas G. Gutheil, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD

Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Law, Director, Center for Law, Ethics & Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

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Names: Appelbaum, Paul S., author. | Gutheil, Thomas G., author.

Title: Clinical handbook of psychiatry & the law / Thomas G. Gutheil, Paul S. Appelbaum.

Other titles: Clinical handbook of psychiatry and the law | Psychiatry and the law.

Description: Fifth edition. | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2020] | Includes index. | Paul S. Appelbaums name appears first on previous edition.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019013827 | ISBN 9781496398055

Subjects: | MESH: Forensic Psychiatry

Classification: LCC RA1151 | NLM W 740 | DDC 614/.15dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019013827

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Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He has been associated with the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, for half a century and has served as a staff member there for 45 years. A nationally known teacher, lecturer, author, and consultant on medicolegal issues, risk management, and malpractice prevention, Dr. Gutheil is the first Professor of Psychiatry in the history of the Harvard Medical School to be board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Gutheil is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He is currently Co-Founder of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He is also former Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Law School; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Tufts Medical School; former President, Law & Psychiatry Resource Center; former Special Consultant to the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions; Past President, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law; Past President, International Academy of Law and Mental Health; and former Affiliate Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Dr. Gutheil served as an American Psychiatric Association delegate to the American Bar Associations Task Force on the insanity defense. In addition, he has served as consultant to the American Bar Associations Task Force on Competence to be Executed and as Special Consultant to the Department of Justice of the Federal Government of Canada. As a thrice-board-certified Forensic Psychiatrist, he has served as consultant or expert witness on cases in 44 states. Dr. Gutheil received the Seymour Pollack Award and the 2005 Golden Apple Award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law for distinguished contributions to the teaching of forensic psychiatry and the Teacher of the Year Award from Continuing Medical Education and the Psychiatric Times. He received the 1997 Prix Philippe Pinel from the International Academy of Law and Mental Health for significant contributions to teaching and research in legal psychiatry; the 1999 A. Clifford Barger Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, from Harvard Medical School; and the 2000 Isaac Ray Award from the American Psychiatric Association for outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence. He received the Red Apple award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law for service to that organization in 2017. Dr. Gutheil was listed in the 1994 and 2005 editions of Best Doctors in America for forensic psychiatry and had been elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 articles, books, and book chapters in the national and international clinical and forensic literature, as well as several teaching audiotapes and videotapes. He is a three-time winner of the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for outstanding contributions to the forensic psychiatric literature. Dr. Gutheil lives and works in the Boston area.