Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
96 Larchwood Dr Cambridge MA, 02138Rating
5/5
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Dr. Harold Bursztajn is a psychiatrist practicing in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Bursztajn is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Bursztajn diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Bursztajn may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Bursztajn treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1977
Harvard Medical School 1977
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Captive patients, captive doctors: clinical dilemmas and interventions in caring for patients in managed health care.
- Clinical trials and effectiveness research.
- Melatonin therapy: from benzodiazepine-dependent insomnia to authenticity and autonomy.
- The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain.
- Work disability after major mental illness and trauma.
- Protecting patient care and public safety in the managed-care era.
- Unanswered questions about the criminalization of therapist-patient sex.
- Protecting privacy in the behavioral genetics era.
- Competency to make a will.
- Ethical and legal dimensions of benzodiazepine prescription: a commentary.
- Attorney abuses of Daubert hearings: junk science, junk law, or just plain obstruction?
- The Grand Inquisitor's choice: comment on the CEJA report on withholding information from patients.
- Knocking at the wrong door: insured workers' inadequate psychiatric care and workers' compensation claims.
- Pride and prejudice: avoiding genetic gossip in the age of genetic testing.
- Re: common pitfalls in the evaluation of testamentary capacity.
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