Upload
others
View
6
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
ROBERT I. SIMON, M.D., DLFAPA
8008 Horseshoe Lane
Potomac, Maryland 20854-3831
301-983-1270
(Fax) 301-983-9470 (Email) [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Resident in Psychiatry
Jackson Memorial Hospital and the
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida 1963-66
Intern
Brooke General Hospital
Fort Sam Houston, Texas 1960-61
M. D.
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts 1960
B.A. with Honors
University of Connecticut 1956
CERTIFICATIONS
Diplomate
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology April 19, 1969
Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry December 23, 1994
Recertification December 31, 2004
(Expires-December 31, 2014)
Diplomate
American Board of Forensic Psychiatry October 24, 1979
Diplomate
National Board of Medical Examiner July 1, 1961
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 2
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
at Georgetown University School of Medicine in
Washington, DC, and Chairman Emeritus of the
Department of Psychiatry at Suburban Hospital,
Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, MD
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland
ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychiatric Association
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Washington Psychiatric Society
PRESIDENT – AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW
President’s Report: Reaching Out. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter. January 2006, p 4, 6
ELECTED OFFICE
President – American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2005-2006
Vice President, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2002-2003
Counselor, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1999-2002
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 3
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Practice of Psychiatry
Full Time
Current Address: 8008 Horseshoe Lane
Potomac, MD 20854-3831 1967 – present
Forensic Psychiatrist
(Independent Medical Examiner for the Court) D.C. Department of Human Resources
Forensic Psychiatry Office
Washington, DC 1972-1978
Instructor in Psychiatry
Full Time Faculty
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida 1966-1967
Flight Surgeon, Captain United States Air Force 1961-1963
CONSULTANT
Special Emphasis Panel
National Institute of Mental Health:
Developing Centers for Interventions for the Prevention of Suicide
Bethesda, Maryland April 1, 2004
National Capital Consortium Forensic Psychiatry Program
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC 2001-2002
Expert Panel Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence
American Bar Association Commission
on Mental and Physical Disability
Washington, DC January 1997-1998
Academic Promotion Review
Invited Reviewer for Academic Promotion
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine June 1997
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 4
Academic Promotion Review Invited Reviewer for Academic Promotion
Harvard Medical School November 1997
Research Proposal Review Consultant Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard
Medical Institutions, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Consultant
Walter Reed Army Medical Center 1988-1994
Independent Psychiatric Examiner Appointed by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in United
States v. Bennett in the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia July 27, 1993
Contributor Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating
and Classifying Violent Crimes. Douglas JE, Burgess AW, Burgess AG,
Ressler RK. Lexington Books, NY 1992
Psychiatric Consultant Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland 1975-1991
Consultant Member, Advisory Board
Crime Classification Manual
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime
Federal Bureau of Investigation 1990
PROFESSIONAL BOARDS APPOINTMENT
Member
Editorial Board
American Psychiatric Glossary
Eighth Edition
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Approved Therapist and Supervisor (for impaired physicians)
Board of Physician Quality Assurance, Baltimore, Maryland
Member Editorial Board
American Psychiatric Publishing Group, Inc.
Washington, DC
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 5
Member
Committee on Continued Professional Education
Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC
Member
Committee on Certification for Added Qualifications
in Forensic Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board of Directors
American Board of Forensic Psychiatry
Examiner
American Board of Forensic Psychiatry
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES AND GROUPS
Member
Work Group on Suicidal Behaviors
American Psychiatric Association
Work Product: Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of
Patients with Suicidal Behaviors.
American Journal of Psychiatry 160:11, November 2003 Supplement 2001-2003
Member
Nominating Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & Law 1999-2002
Member
Gender Issues Committee
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1999-2002
Chairman
Suicidology Committee
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1998-2004
Member
Task Force on Peer Review of Expert Testimony
American Psychiatric Association 1992-1997
Member
Task Force on Psychiatric Testimony
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1991-1997
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 6
Member Ethics Task Force
Washington Psychiatric Society 1993-1994
Member
Committee on Psychiatry and Law
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry 1991-1994
Member Private Practice Committee
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1989-1994
Member Long Range Planning Committee
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1987-1994
Chairman Committee on Private Practice
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1985-1989
Member Task Force on Terrorism
American Psychiatric Association 1981-1985
REVIEWER
Book Reviewer
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Journal of Psychotherapy
Journal of Neuropsychiatry
*Journal of the American Medical Association
Peer Reviewer
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Press, Inc. - Book Proposals
*Most recent review: Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness: Empirical Contributions edited by
Georges-Franck Picard and Linda Pigari, Vol. 286, No. 14, 1768-1769, 2001
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 7
Behavioral Science and the Law
The Forensic Sciences Foundation, Inc.
Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Issues in Law and Medicine
Journal of Clinical Ethics
Journal of Mental Health
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders
Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Journal of Traumatic Stress
Psychosomatics
Columnist
Psychiatric Times – Psychiatry and Law 2004
The Psychotherapy Letter: Clinicians and the Law 1995-1996
Editorial Board
American Psychiatric Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Edition 2007
Associate Editor
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1991-2003
Guest Editor (with Carl P. Malmquist, M.D.)
Psychiatric Annals, “Psychiatry and the Law” June 2000
Guest Editor (with Carl P. Malmquist, M.D.)
Psychiatric Annals, “Psychiatry in Sexual Harassment” March 1996
Editor
American Psychiatric Press
Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vols I, II, III 1990 - 1992
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 8
Consulting Editor Editorial Advisory Board
Psychiatric Annals 1987 - Present
Editor Contemporary Psychiatry Section
Psychiatric Annals 1987 – Present
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Authorship in Forensic Psychiatry: A Perspective. 37th Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law. Chicago, IL, October 26, 2006
PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Symposium Presenter
Forensic Psychiatry: Informing Clinical Practice (Co-Chair with Liza M. Gold, M.D.) Presentation:
Looking Beyond Patients’ Denials of suicide Ideation – Assessing Observable Evidence-Based Risk
Factors.
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA May 5, 2012
Presenter
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment Utilizing Evidence Based Psychiatry. Symposium sponsored by
Professional Risk Management Services, Inc. Arlington, VA, November 13, 2010
Presenter
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment Utilizing Evidence Based Psychiatry. The Conference Center at
Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore, MD. Symposium sponsored by the Maryland Psychiatric Society,
March 20, 2010
Panel Chair and Presenter
Advances in Forensic Psychiatry
Presentation: Quality Assurance Review of Suicide Risk Assessments: Reality and Remedy
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting May 24, 2010
Presenter – Awards Lecture
2010 American Psychiatric Association/American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL/APA)
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Violence
Assessment and Management, edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D. and Kenneth Tardiff, M.D.
Lecture: Patient Violence against Mental Health Clinicians: Safety Assessment and Management
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 23, 2010
Grand Rounds Presenter
Patient Violence against Healthcare Professionals: Safety Assessment and Prevention,
Suburban Hospital, John Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, MD April 30, 2010
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 9
Presenter
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment through Evidence-Based Psychiatry
The Maryland Psychiatric Society March 20, 2010
Grand Rounds Presentation
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessments: Evidence-Based Psychiatry (Also Case Review)
Prison Health Services
Ryker’s Island, New York November 9, 2009
Panel Co-Chair and Presenter
(With Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.) Subtly Suicidal: Difficult Cases in Suicide Litigation
Presentation: “Sudden Improvement in High Risk Suicidal Patients: Real or Feigned?” Annual
Meeting of the American Academy Psychiatry and the Law, Baltimore, MD October 30, 2009
Advances in Forensic Psychiatry
(Chairperson with Liza H. Gold, M.D.) “Therapeutic Risk Management of Clinical-Legal Dilemmas”
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA May 19, 2009
Course Participant
“Losing a Patient to Suicide”
American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC May 4, 2008
Presenter
“Evidence-Based Suicide Risk Assessment.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC February 24, 2008
Presenter
Advances in Assessment and Management of Suicide. Annual Meeting of the American
Psychiatry Association, San Diego, CA May 22, 2007
Workshop Presenter
Road Trips: Tips and Pitfalls for the Traveling Expert. Annual Meeting of the Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law. October 27, 2006
Panelist
Uncovering Death’s Dilemmas: The Psychological Autopsy
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
Montreal, Canada October 28, 2005
Workshop
Boundaries and Supervision: Avoiding Legal Risks and Doing
Good Clinical Work
American Psychiatric Association
Atlanta, Georgia May 24, 2005
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 10
Panelist
Psychiatric Evaluations in Sexual Harassment Litigation
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
Scottsdale, Arizona October 22, 2004
Panelist
Tales from the Crypt, Teaching Forensic Aspects of Suicide
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
Scottsdale, Arizona October 22, 2004
Presenter Meet the Authors: Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk:
Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
New York, New York May 4, 2004
Panelist
No-Suicide Decisions, Contracts, and Assessment of Risk:
Values and Cautions
American Psychiatric Association
New York, New York May 3, 2004
Panelist
Peer Review of Psychiatric Testimony
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
San Antonio, Texas October 18, 2003
Panelist
Partnering with Corrections to Reduce Suicide
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
San Antonio, Texas October 16, 2003
Chairman, Workshop
Retrospective Assessment: Daubert and the Insanity Defense
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Newport Beach, California October 27, 2002
Chairman, Workshop
Suicide Risk Assessment: What is the Standard of Care?
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Newport Beach, California October 25, 2002
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 11
Presenter
Meet the Author Discussion Group
“Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past”
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 21, 2002
Chairman, Workshop
“Writing and Publishing in Forensic Psychiatry”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Boston, Massachusetts October 27, 2001
Chairman, Workshop
“Discharging Inpatients: Managed Care and Risk Management”
Annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Boston, Massachusetts October 26, 2001
Chairman, Workshop “Expert Witness Testimony in Suicide Cases after Daubert”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Vancouver, British Columbia October 21, 2000
Chairman, Panel “Psychological Preparation of Key Fact Witnesses for Trial”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Vancouver, British Columbia October 19, 2000
Panel Participant “Gender Issues in the Practice of Forensic Psychiatry”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Vancouver, British Columbia October 19, 2000
Co-Chairman, Workshop
“Split Treatment: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues”
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Chicago, Illinois May 16, 2000
Chairman, Workshop "The Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Baltimore, Maryland October 14, 1999
Presenter, Workshop "Suicide Risk Assessment: A Forensic Perspective"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Baltimore, Maryland October 14, 1999
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 12
Presenter, Workshop "Publishing in Forensic Psychiatry"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
New Orleans, Louisiana October 24, 1998
Course Presenter
"Surviving Inpatient Care in the Managed Care Era."
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
New Orleans, Louisiana October 23, 1998
Director, Mock Trial "Standard of Care in Managed Care Settings."
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
New Orleans, Louisiana October 23, 1998
Presenter, Workshop "Suicide: Focus on Forensics."
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
New Orleans, Louisiana October 23, 1998
Participant "A Mock Professional Liability Trial."
The American Psychiatric Association Professional Liability Insurance Program
Schaumberg, Illinois September 19, 1998
Panelist
"Sexual Harassment: A Balanced Perspective"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Denver, Colorado October 24, 1997
Lecturer American Psychiatric Association Conference: Violence: Implications for
Forensic Practice. “Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic
Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior.”
New York City, New York February 21-22, 1997
Panelist “Legal Developments in Sexual Abuse Litigation”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
San Juan, Puerto Rico October 18, 1996
Lecturer Tenth Annual Symposium on Psychiatric Medicine “Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment”
Florida Hospital Medical Center
Orlando, Florida March 12, 1996
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 13
Lecturer American Psychiatric Association Conference: Violence: Implications for
Forensic Practice. “Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream”
New Orleans, Louisiana March 2, 1996
Task Force Presenter Peer Review of Expert Psychiatric Testimony: American Psychiatric
Association Task Force on Peer Review of Expert Testimony:
“Toward the Development of Boundary Guidelines for the Conduct of
Forensic Psychiatric Examinations”
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Miami, Florida May 23, 1995
Symposium Presenter Sexual Misconduct: Therapist Evaluation and Rehabilitation:
"Identifying Precursor Boundary Violations to Therapist/Patient Sex"
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 23, 1994
Panelist Private Practice Skills in Civil Litigation Forensic Psychiatry:
"PTSD in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
San Antonio, Texas October 24, 1993
Panelist Current Malpractice Risks for Psychiatrists: "Clinical Risk
Management of the Suicidal Patient"
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
San Antonio, Texas October 22, 1993
Symposium Presenter The Development of Standards for the Forensic. Psychiatric Examination of PTSD Claimants.
American Occupational Health Conference
Atlanta, Georgia April 28, 1993
Symposium Presenter The Psychologically Dangerous Employee
American Occupational Health Conference
Atlanta, Georgia April 28, 1993
Symposium Presenter The Development of Standards for the Forensic Examination of
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Claimants
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC November 19, 1992
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 14
Presenter Overview of Current Issues in Administrative Psychiatry
Highpoints of Law and Psychiatry: The Assessment of Suicide Risk
44th Institute on Hospital and Community Psychiatry
Toronto, Canada October 23, 1992
Presenter Psychic Trauma: Causes and Responses
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 1992
Ask the Expert Psychiatric Malpractice
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Boston, Massachusetts October 17, 1992
Panelist The Role and View of State Medical Boards:
Sexual Misconduct and the Physician
American College of Legal Medicine
Washington, DC September 25, 1992
Symposium Presenter The Development of Standards for the Forensic
Psychiatric Examination of PTSD Claimants
American Occupational Health Conference
Washington, DC May 8, 1992
Moderator Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology: Patient Evaluation
American Occupational Health Conference
Washington, DC May 8, 1992
Symposium Presenter
The Analysis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
National Psychological Injury Conference
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC November 6, 1991
Symposium Presenter
Clinical Assessment of Deception in Psychic Injury Litigation
National Psychological Injury Conference
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC November 6, 1991
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 15
Course and Workshop Chairman
The Credible Psychiatric Examination of the PTSD Claimant
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Orlando, Florida October 20, 1991
San Diego, California October 25, 1990
Panelist
Judicially Imposed Standard of Care: Biologic v. Dynamic Psychiatry
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
San Diego, California October 25, 1990
Symposia Chairman
Serial Sexual Murderers: Overview of Research
(With Robert Ressler, MS, FBI Academy)
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
New York, New York May 16, 1990
Symposia Chairman
Serial Sexual Murderers: Overview of Research
(With Robert Ressler, MS, FBI Academy)
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Washington, DC October 21, 1989
Panelist
The Weather Forecast Model in the Assessment of Suicide Risk
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Washington, DC October 21, 1989
Workshop Chairman
Sexual Misconduct: How Therapists Get Into Trouble
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Washington, DC October 20, 1989
Workshop Chairman The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing a Forensic Book
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
San Francisco, California May 21, 1988
Symposia Chairman Psychiatric Malpractice
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Montreal, Canada May 11, 1988
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 16
Paper Session - Chairman Forensic Psychiatry
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Montreal, Canada May 9, 1988
Symposia Chairman Psychiatric Malpractice
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Chicago, Illinois May 13, 1987
Moderator
Legal Issues for the Private Practicing Psychiatrist
The Maryland Psychiatric Society
Washington, DC March 21, 1987
Panelist
Right to Die Issues in the Elderly
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 18, 1986
MEDICAL LICENSURE
Maryland
Virginia
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AND AWARDS
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. Co-edited with K. Tardiff. Co-sponsored by the American
Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law “to honor
outstanding contribution to the literature on forensic psychiatry,” for “Assessing and
Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management.” 2010
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. Co-sponsored by the American Psychiatric
Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law “to honor
outstanding contribution to the literature on forensic psychiatry,” for “Assessing and
Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management.” 2005
Isaac Ray Award. Presented by the American Psychiatric Association and the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law for “outstanding
contribution to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence.” 2003
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association 2003
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 17
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. Honorable Mention. Co-sponsored by
The American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry
and the Law “to honor outstanding contribution to the literature on forensic
psychiatry,” for “Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation:
Predicting the Past” (Co-authored with Daniel W. Shuman, J.D.). 2003
Distinguished Professor Award. Presented by the Center for Psychiatry,
Florida Hospital Medical Center “in recognition of his contribution to the
field of psychiatry.” 1996
Golden Apple Award. Presented in recognition of American Psychiatry and
the Law members who have made significant contributions to the field of
forensic psychiatry. 1995
The American Board of Forensic Psychiatry “in grateful appreciation for
devoted service to forensic psychiatry. Director 1991-1994.” 1994
Seymour Pollack Award. Presented by the American Psychiatric Association
and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law “in recognition of
distinguished contributions to the teaching and educational functions of
forensic psychiatry.” 1994
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. Co-sponsored by the American Psychiatric
Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law “to honor
outstanding contribution to the literature on forensic psychiatry,” for “Psychiatric
Malpractice: Cases and Comments for Clinicians.”
(Co-authored with Robert L. Sadoff, M.D.). 1993
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Connecticut 1956
HOSPITAL CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
Department of Psychiatry, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD
Chairman Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry
Group Therapist and Clinical Supervisor,
Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Program
Group Therapist and Clinical Supervisor,
Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 18
Consultant and Supervisor,
Care Management Program
Emergency Room Panel (Emergency Room coverage)
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES
Member, Executive Committee
Suburban Hospital
Chairman, Behavioral Health Quality Assurance Committee
Suburban Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Bethesda, MD
Member (Ad Hoc), Suburban Investigational Research Review Board
Member, Utilization Management Committee
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Royal College of Psychiatrists, Annual Conference. “Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence-based
Psychiatry: Clinical and Forensic Issues.” Newcastle, United Kingdom, February 1, 2006
Correctional Mental Health Conference. “Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidenced Based Psychiatry.”
University of Massachusetts Medical School, October 6, 2005
St. Elizabeth’s Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) Educational Symposium. Isaac Ray Award
Lecture. “Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence Based Psychiatry.” Washington Convention
Center, Washington, DC. May 6, 2005
American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, Professional Liability Insurance Program “The
Challenge of Managing Malpractice Risks in Managed Care Settings. September 19, 1997
Illinois Psychiatric Society, Oak Brook, Illinois, “Current 'Hot Spots' in Psychiatric Malpractice.”
March 1, 1997
Idaho Psychiatric Society, Boise, Idaho, “The Predators among Us: Stalkers, Rapists and Serial
Killers.” February 8, 1997
16th Annual Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry and Law, The
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. “Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist
Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior” and “Recovered Memories of Childhood Abuse:
Memories from Hell. August 22-24, 1996
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 19
The Ninth Charles E. Steinberg Lecture in Psychiatry and the Law. University of Rochester
Medical Center, Rochester, New York, “Deriving Boundary Guidelines from Sexual
Misconduct Cases.” September 13, 1995
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Newton, Massachusetts, "The Psychiatrist Must Survive:
Understanding Malpractice Liability." March 18, 1995
GUEST SPEAKER
The Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and Law. Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence-Based
Psychiatry. Clinical and Forensic Issues. Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Conference
Toronto, Canada, November 10, 2006
University of Cincinnati, Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry. The Future of the “Duty
to Protect:” Scientific and Legal Perspectives on Tarasoff’s Thirtieth Anniversary Symposium. “The
Myth of ‘Imminent’ Violence in Psychiatry and the Law,” March 17, 2006
Maryland Medical Society “Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence Based Psychiatry.” Cambridge,
Maryland. October 15, 2005
“Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence Based Psychiatry.” Grand Rounds. Suburban Hospital, Bethesda,
Maryland April 15, 2005
Leadership Analysis Speaker Series, Langley, Virginia. August 8, 2002
“Reducing Liability Risks for the Clinician,” Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. “Liability
Prevention in Psychopharmacology,” and “Discharging Problem Patients in the Managed Care Era.”
April 11, 2002
Lecture: “Managing Self-Directed Violence: The Suicide Risk Assessment.” Walter Reed Army
Medical Center 11th Annual Forensic Psychiatry Symposium, Washington, DC, May 1, 2001
Risk Management Meets Practice Management: Practical Applications of Risk Management
Strategies for Psychiatry. The Psychiatrists’ Program: The American Psychiatric Association-
Endorsed Professional Liability Insurance Program. “Psychopharmacology and Risk
Management,” Arlington, Virginia. October 13, 2001
University Health Center, University of Maryland: “Assessing Suicide Risk,” College Park, Maryland.
March 27, 2001
Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis: “Creating a Psychological Profile,” McLean,
Virginia. March 22, 2001
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 20
Lecture: “Discharging Sicker, Potentially Violent Psychiatric Inpatients in the Managed Care Era:
Standard of Care and Risk Management.” The Tri-State Chapter of The American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law 26th Annual Conference: New Legal Issues in the Practice of Psychiatry,
New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, New York. January 20, 2001
Lectures: “Guidelines for the Psychiatric Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”;
“Assessing Suicide Risk”; “The Psychologically Vulnerable Witness: An Emerging Forensic
Consulting Role’; and “Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Review and Checklist of
Factors Influencing Prognosis” World Psychiatric Association Conference on Legal and
Forensic Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain. June 23-26, 2000
St. Elizabeth's Hospital: "The Art and Science of Suicide Risk Assessment," Washington, DC.
February 29, 2000
Suburban Hospital Department of Medical Education's Internal Medicine Clinical Review:
"Suicide Risk Assessment: A Forensic Psychiatric Perspective," Bethesda, Maryland.
December 10, 1999
Suburban Hospital Behavioral Health Services Division: "Suicide Risk Assessment: A Forensic
Psychiatrist's Perspective," Bethesda, Maryland. November 12, 1999
Government Training Institute: National Symposium on Psychiatric Disabilities - N9921DC:
"The EEOC's Enforcement Guidance: Issues, Questions and Concerns from a Clinician's
Perspective," Alexandria, Virginia. June 22, 1999
The Scientific Program of the Annual Session of the Texas Medical Association: "Psychiatrists
Awake! Suicide Risk Assessments Are All About a Good Night's Sleep," Dallas, Texas.
May 7, 1999
Brown University, Butler Hospital: "The Credible Psychiatric Examination of Sexual Harassment
Claimants," Providence, Rhode Island. April 7, 1999
APA Sponsored Professional Liability Insurance Program. Professional Risk Management
Services, Inc.: "Preventing Premature Discharge of Patients in the Managed Care Era,"
Arlington, Virginia. March 26, 1999
Survey of Leadership Analysis Conference, “Building a Leadership Profile: Evidence and
Assessment," McLean, Virginia. March 10, 1999
Suburban Hospital Behavioral Health Unit: "Suicide Risk Assessment," Bethesda, Maryland.
November 18, 1998
Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC: "Personality Profiles of Foreign Leaders."
October 1, 1998
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 21
Panel Moderator, with Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. and Jerry M. Wiener, M.D., American College of
Psychiatrists: Psychiatric UPDATE Program "Boundary Violations," March 28, 1998,
Washington, DC. (Audiocassette and transcript of panel discussion published July 1998).
Chesapeake Bay Chapter, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Washington, DC,
"Discharging Sicker, Potentially Violent Psychiatric Inpatients in the Managed Care Era:
Standard of Care and Risk Management." March 25, 1998
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, Psychiatric Grand Rounds,
"Stalkers: Perpetrators of Interpersonal Terrorism." March 12, 1998
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD, Internal Medicine Clinical Review Conference, "The Sexual
Misconduct of Psychotherapists--Lessons for All Physicians." March 6, 1998
Survey of Leadership Analysis Conference, McLean, Virginia, "Building a Leadership Profile:
Evidence and Assessment." February 26, 1998
Sibley Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, Fourth Annual Risk
Management Roundtable, "Suicide Risk Assessment." February 10, 1998
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 28th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, "Sexual
Harassment: A Balanced Perspective." October 24, 1997
Barbados, West Indies, Barbadian Association of Psychiatrists,” Boundary Guidelines in
Psychotherapy." October 12, 1997
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD., Internal Medicine Clinical Review Conference, “Assessing
Suicide Risk” August 22, 1997
Sibley Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, “Standard of Care under
Managed Care: Inpatient Treatment.” February 11, 1997
Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC, "Mad or Bad? The Forensics of Psychiatry.”
March 12, 1997
Spanish Society of Legal Psychiatry, Toledo, Spain, “Guidelines for the Credible Psychiatric
Examination in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Claims.” October 23, 1996
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, “Hot Spots in Psychiatric
Malpractice Litigation.” October 25, 1995
Suburban Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, Bethesda, Maryland, “Preventing
Psychiatric Malpractice.” May 30, 1995
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 22
Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, "Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy."
October 5, 1995
The Tri-State Chapter of The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New
York, New York, "The Role of the Forensic Psychiatrist in Work-Place Harassment Claims."
January 22, 1994
Chesapeake Chapter, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Bethesda, Maryland, "Suicide
Assessment: Clinical and Forensic Dimensions." September 29, 1993
Sibley Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Washington, DC, "Assessing Suicidal
Risk in the Medical Patient." February 20, 1992
American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, New York, "Sexual Misconduct: Identification and
Prevention.” December 20-21, 1991
Department of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, "Sexual Exploitation of Patients:
How It Begins Before It Happens." October 4, 1991
Marin County Psychiatric Society, Marin County, California, "Sexual Misconduct in the Practice of
Psychiatry." April 2, 1991
Southern California Psychiatric Society, Los Angeles, California, "Judicially Imposed Standard of
Care: Biologic vs. Dynamic Psychiatry." April 28, 1990
National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, Washington, DC, "Determining
Incapacity to Make Medical Decisions: Factors and Considerations." April 26, 1990
Health Law Institute, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, "Biologic vs. Dynamic
Psychiatry: Standard of Care in the 21st Century." March 16, 1990
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia,
"Sexual Misconduct of Therapists." March 13, 1990
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, "Sexual Misconduct: How Psychotherapists
Get Into Trouble." November 9, 1989
American Bar Association Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Honolulu, Hawaii, "Liability and
Litigation from the Psychiatrist's Perspective." August 7, 1989
Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia, "An Update on Forensic Psychiatry." June 14, 1989
Michigan Psychiatric Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, “The Psychiatrist and Malpractice."
April 13, 1989
McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, "The Sexual Misconduct of Psychotherapists -
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 23
Precursor Boundary Violations." October, 1988
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, "Psychiatric Interventions and the Law."
September 22, 1988
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, "The Management of Transference and
Counter-transference Issues in Psychiatry." September 24, 1987
Kentucky Bar Association, Louisville, Kentucky, "The Credible Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation
of the PTSD Claimant." June 13, 1987
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, "Assessing the Risk of Violence." 1987
George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, "Sexual Misconduct: How It Begins
Before It Happens." 1987
Children's Hospital, Washington, DC, "Psychiatric Malpractice." 1987
AWARD LECTURE
“Patient Violence against Mental Health Professionals: Safety Assessment and Management.”
Guttmacher Award Lecture. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. May 23, 2010
“Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence Based Psychiatry.” Guttmacher Award Lecture. Annual Meeting
of the American Psychiatric Association. Atlanta, Georgia. May 22, 2005
St. Elizabeth’s Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) Educational Symposium. Isaac Ray Award
Lecture. “Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence-Based Psychiatry.” Washington Convention Center,
Washington, DC. May 6, 2005
“Deriving Boundary Guidelines from Sexual Misconduct Cases.” Guttmacher Award Lecture
Psychiatry at Risk: Prevention of Boundary Violations and Other Treatment Vulnerabilities.
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. San Francisco, California May 23, 1993
RADIO, TELEVISION AND PRINT MEDIA
Interview: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National, Sydney, Australia February 25, 2002
Series on Evil ITV (Independent Television)—Channel 4 London, England January 28, 2002
Consultant, RDF Television, London, England September 9, 2001
Consultant to Newsweek magazine cover section “Evil”; interview by Journalist Sharon Begley
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 24
for article "The Roots of Evil.” May 21, 2001
American Psychiatric Association Media Speaker, current
"Serial Killers: A Social and Scientific Approach," Informe Especial, TVN Television
Nacional de Chile May 12, 1998
NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw October 31, 1997
“Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of
Human Behavior,” Dr. Harvey Rubin Show, Taylor Satellite Talk Radio, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
January 9, February 16, February 27, 1996
“Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of
Human Behavior,” Channel 8 News, Washington Metro Area, February 19, 1996
“Serial Killers,” Spiegel TV, Hamburg, Germany, January 31, 1996
“Serial Killers,” British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio, November 22, 1995
“The Origins of Violence,” Cable News Network (CNN), November 22, 1995
VISITING PROFESSOR
Florida Hospital Medical Center, Center for Psychiatry, Orlando, Florida, March 12, 1996
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, March 31, 1994
Koret Visiting Professor, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, California,
April 1-2, 1991
VISITING SCHOLAR
St. Vincent’s Behavioral Health Services, October 2-3, 2008, Westport, Connecticut
Visiting Scholar. Yochelson Lecture – Visiting Scholar Series. Yale University School of Medicine,
April 6-8, 2005
The Eighth Dr. Samuel and Kathryn Yochelson Lecture: Suicide Risk Assessment: Evidence-Based
Psychiatry. Yale University School of Medicine, April 8, 2005
Hall-Mercer Visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 5-7, 2002
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 25
FACULTY
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update, 2002. Presentation: “Clinical/Legal
Issues in Psychotherapy,” December 6, 2002; The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide.
Presentation: “Minefields for the Fact and Expert Witness” (with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.,
December 7, 2002).
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update, 2001. Presentation: “Non-Sexual
Boundary Violations,” November 30, 2001; The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide.
Presentation: “The Forensic Expert on the Road: Are You Practicing Without A License?”
December 1, 2001.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update, 2000. Presentation: “Taking the
‘Sue’ Out of Suicide: A Forensic Psychiatrist’s Perspective,” December 1, 2000; The Mental Health
Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide. Presentation: “The Psychologically Vulnerable Witness: An
Emerging Forensic Consulting Role,” December 2, 2000.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update, 1998. Presentation: Clinician's
Anxieties about Patient's memories: Treatment vs. Advocacy," November 20, 1998; The Mental
Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide. Presentation: "Coping with Depositions and Trials:
The Perspective of a Forensic Psychiatrist," November 21, 1998. Advanced Workshop: "How the
Forensic Expert Selects a Case," November 21, 1998.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update, 1997. Presentation: "Avoiding
Malpractice Risks in Managed Care Settings," November 21, 1997; The Mental Health Clinician in
Court: A Survival Guide. Presentation: "Litigation in Mental Health Practice: Now and Into the
New Millennium." Advanced Workshop: "Forensic Psychiatric Examinations: Guidelines for the
Forensic Practitioner," November 22, 1997.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update. Presentation: “Mental Health
Clinician Beware: Current ‘Hot Spots in Clinical Practice,” November 22, 1996; Moderator: The
Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide. Presentation: “Discharging the Potentially
Violent Psychiatric Inpatient in the Managed Care Era,” November 23, 1996.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Prevention
for Mental Health Clinicians: Strategies and Update. Presentations: “Drug Therapies and the Varieties
of Legal Liability,” November 17, 1995; The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide.
“The Credible Psychiatric Evaluation of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Claimants,”
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 26
November 18, 1995; The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide. "The Meritorious Case:
Choosing Wisely,” November 18, 1995.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. Liability
Prevention, 1995: Update and Strategies. Presentations: "Hot Spots in Legal Liability: What The
Clinician Needs to Know," April 7, 1995; The Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide. "Forensic
Psychiatric Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Claims," April 8, 1995.
American Law Institute--American Bar Association. Presentation: "How to Present and Challenge
Experts in Employment Cases: Persuading the Jury," June 2, 1994.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, Massachusetts. The
Dangers and Opportunities of Clinical Practice. Presentations: "Boundary Violations: From
Gray Areas to Malpractice," February 11, 1994; Liability Prevention, 1994: Trends and Strategies.
"The Suicidal Patient: Being Able to Sleep with the Malpractice Risk," February 12, 1994.
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Therapist-Patient Sexual Relations June 27, 1990; Assessing Suicide Risk: A Risk Management
Technique, June 27, 1990.
PUBLICATIONS – ARTICLES
Passive Suicidal Ideation: Still a High Risk. Current Psychiatry Vol 13. Issue Passive Suicidal
Ideation: Still a High Risk. Current Psychiatry Vol 13. Issue 3, pp 13-15, 2014
Suicide Rehearsals: A High-Risk Psychiatric Emergency. Current Psychiatry 11:28-32, 2012
Screening for Suicide Risk in a Brief Medication Management Appointment. Psychiatric Times, May
2012
Assessing Protective Factors against Suicide: Questioning Assumptions (Category 1 CME Article)
Psychiatric Times 28:35-37, 2011
Empty Words in Psychiatric Records: Where Has Clinical Narrative Gone? (With Thomas G. Gutheil,
M.D.) Psychiatric Times, December 2011, p. 16
From the Experts – Sudden Improvement in High-Risk Suicidal Patients: Health or Stealth?
Psychiatric News 46:13, 2011
Patient Violence against Healthcare Professionals: Safety Assessment and Management. Psychiatric
Times. February 2011, p 16
Improving Suicide Risk Assessment: Avoiding Common Pitfalls. Psychiatric Times, November 2011,
p. 26
Suicide Risk Assessment Forms: Form Over Substance: Journal of the American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law 37:290-293, 2009
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 27
Sudden Improvement in High risk Suicidal Patients: Should it be Trusted? (With Thomas G. Gutheil,
M.D.) Psychiatric Services 60:3870389, 2009
Therapeutic Risk Management of Clinical-Legal Dilemmas: Should It Be A Core Competency?
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 37:155-161, 2009
Enhancing Suicide Risk assessment through Evidence-Based Psychiatry. Psychiatric Times.
January 2009
Behavioral Risk Assessment of the Guarded Suicidal Patient. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
38:517-522, 2008
Is it a True Emergency?: Suicidal Patients’ Access to Their Psychiatrists. Psychiatric Times.
March 2008
Naked Suicide. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 36:240-245, 2008
Gun Safety Management with Patients at Risk for Suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
37-518-526, 2007
Authorship in Forensic Psychiatry: A Perspective. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry
and the Law 35:18-26, 2007
Just a Smile and a Hello on the Golden Gate Bridge. American Journal of Psychiatry 164:720-721,
2007
Editorial: Suicide Risk Assessment: Is Clinical Experience Enough? Journal of the American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 34-276-278, 2006
The Standard of Care in Suicide Risk Assessment: An Elusive Concept. (Co-authored with DW
Shuman) CNS Spectrums 11:442-2445, 2006
Imminent Suicide: The Elusion of Short-Term Prediction. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
36:296-301, 2006
The Myth of “Imminent” Violence in Psychiatry and the Law. University of Cincinnati Law Review.
Winter 2006
Commentary: Medical Errors, Sentinel Events, and Malpractice. Journal of the American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law 34:99-100, 2006
Foreword to “Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective.” Second Edition. By Carl P. Malmquist, M.D.
The Internet as a “Slippery Slope”: E-Mails, Extra-Therapeutic Contact, and Early Boundary
Problems. (Co-authored with T.G. Gutheil, M.D) Psychiatric Annals 35: 956-960, 2005
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 28
“The Wrong Handle”: Flawed Approaches to Medico-Legal Problems in Psychiatry and Law.
(Co-authored with T.G. Gutheil, M.D, and J.T. Hilliard, JD) Journal of the American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law. 33:432-436, 2005
On Sound and Unsound Mind: the Role of Suicide in Tort and Insurance Litigation. (Co-authored with
J.L. Levenson, MD, D.W. Shuman, JD.) Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
33:176-182, 2005
Standard of Care Testimony: Best Practices or Reasonable Care? Journal of the American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law. 33:8-11, 2005
Narcissistic Dimensions of Expert Witness Practice. (Co-authored with T.G. Gutheil, M.D.) Journal of
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 33:55-58, 2005
Some Clinician Factors Associated with Increased Risk for Patient Suicide. Co-authored with
T.G. Gutheil, M.D. Psychiatric Annals 34:750, 752-754, 2004
Avoiding Bias in Expert Testimony. Psychiatric Annals 34:260-261, 265-270, 2004 (Co-authored
with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.).
Robert M. Wettstein, M.D.: A President’s Commitment to Excellence. Journal of the American
Academy of Psychiatry and Law 32:9-11, 2004
Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Suicidal Behaviors.
Member, American Psychiatric Association Work Group on Suicidal Behaviors: American
Journal of Psychiatry 160:1-60 (Supplement), 2003
Should Forensic Psychiatrists Testify About Evil? Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry
and the Law 31:413-416, 2003
When Patients Leave the Hospital against Medical Advice: Patients’ Rights and Psychiatrists’
Duties. Co-authored with Joan B. Gerbasi, J.D., M.D. Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Vol. 11:333-334, 2003
Suicide Risk: Assessing the Unpredictable. Special Report Suicide. Psychiatric Times, December
2003.
The Law in Psychiatry. Focus 1:349-372, 2003
Abandonment of Patients in Split Treatment. Co-authored with Thomas G. Gutheil. Harvard Review
of Psychiatry 11:175-179, 2003
The Forensic Expert on the Road: New Hazards Along the Way. Co-authored with T.G. Gutheil.
Psychiatric Annals 33:302-306, 2003
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 29
Suicidal Patient Known to Have Firearm in his House. Current Cases and Commentaries: Psychiatry.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the web.
May 2003, at http://webmn.ahrq.gov
Commentary: Think Fast, Act Quickly and Document (Maybe). Journal of the American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law, 31:65-67, 2003
Non-Sexual Boundary Crossings and Boundary Violations: The Ethical Dimension.
(with T.G. Gutheil, principle author). Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 25:585-592, 2002
Suicide Risk Assessment: What is the Standard of Care? Editorial. Journal of the American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 30:340-344, 2002
Suicide and Litigation: Lessons Learned in Risk Management. Psychiatric Times, 19:49-53, 2002
A Recurrent Pattern of Suicide Risk Factors Observed in Litigated Cases: Lessons in Risk
Management. Co-authored with T. G. Gutheil, M.D. Psychiatric Annals 32:384-387, 2002
Suicide Risk Assessment in Managed Care Settings. Primary Psychiatry 9:42, 46-49, 2002
Distinguishing Trauma Associated Narcissistic Symptoms From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:
A Diagnostic Challenge. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 10:28-36, 2002.
Commentary: Treatment Boundaries—Flexible Guidelines, Not Rigid Standards (Commentary on
“Boundary Violations: A Culture-Bound Syndrome” by Jerome Kroll, M.D., same issue).
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 29 (3): 287-9, 2001.
The Phantom Expert. Co-authored with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. and James T. Hilliard, J.D.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 29 (3): 313-8, 2001.
The Psychologically Vulnerable Witness: An Emerging Forensic Consulting Role. Journal of
the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 29 (1):33-41, 2001.
Serial Killers, Evil and Us. National Forum, the Phi Kappa Phi Journal 80 (4):23-28, Fall 2000.
Defensive Psychiatry and the Disruption of Treatment Boundaries. Israel Journal of
Psychiatry 37 (2): 124-131, 2000.
Taking the “Sue” Out of Suicide: A Forensic Psychiatrist’s Perspective. Psychiatric Annals 30
(6): 399-407, 2000.
Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.: A President for the Millennium. Journal of the American Academy
of Psychiatry and the Law 28:9-13, 2000.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 30
Attorneys' Pressures on the Expert Witness: Early Warning Signs of Endangered Honesty, Objectivity,
and Fair Compensation. Co-authored with T. G. Gutheil, M.D. Journal of the American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 27 (4):546-553, 1999.
Maintaining Treatment Boundaries in Small Communities and Rural Areas. Co-authored with
Izben Williams, M.D. Psychiatric Services 50 (11):1440-1446, 1999.
The Suicide Prevention Contract: Clinical, Legal, and Risk Management Issues. Journal of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law 27 (3):445-450, 1999.
Split Treatment: Clarity between Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists. Co-authored with Donald J.
Meyer, M.D. Psychiatric Annals: Part 1, 29 (5):241-245, 1999; Part 2, 29 (6):327-332, 1999.
Conducting Forensic Examinations on the Road: Are You Practicing Your Profession Without a
License? Co-authored with Daniel W. Shuman, J.D. Journal of the American Academy of
Psychiatry and Law 27 (1):75-82, 1999.
Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Review and Checklist of Factors Influencing Prognosis.
Harvard Review of Psychiatry 6:304-312, 1999.
Managing Malpractice Liability in Managed Care Settings: Risks and Remedies in Psychiatric
Care. Primary Psychiatry 5:91-95, 1998.
Murder Masquerading as Suicide: Post-Mortem Assessment of Suicide Risk Factors at the Time
of Death. Journal of Forensic Sciences 43 (6):1129-1133, 1998.
Psychiatrists Awake! Suicide Risk Assessments Are All About a Good Night's Sleep. Psychiatric
Annals 28:479-485, 1998.
The Credible Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Litigation
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 26:361-374, 1998.
Psychiatrists' Duties in Discharging Sicker and Potentially Violent Inpatients in the Managed
Care Era. Psychiatric Services 49:62-67, 1998. Also abstracted in Psychiatric Digest,
June 1998, pp. 18-19.
Discharging Sicker, Potentially Violent Psychiatric Inpatients in the Managed Care Era: Standard
of Care and Risk Management. Psychiatric Annals 27:726-733, 1997.
Risk Management Principles in Recovered Memories Cases: The Importance of the Clinical
Foundation. Co-authored with T. G. Gutheil, M.D. Psychiatric Services 48:1403-1407, 1997.
Video Voyeurs and the Covert Videotaping of Unsuspecting Victims: Psychological and Legal
Consequences. Journal of Forensic Sciences 42:884-889, 1997.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 31
Boundaries in Psychotherapy: Providing a Safe Place to Heal. The Harvard Mental Health Letter
25:17-30, 1997.
Toward the Development of Guidelines for the Conduct of Forensic Psychiatric Examinations.
Co-authored with Robert M. Wettstein, M.D. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry
and the Law 25:17-30, 1997.
Clinical Risk Management of the Rapid Cycling Bipolar Patient. Harvard Review of Psychiatry
4:245-254, 1997.
“Three's a Crowd”: The Presence of Third Parties During the Forensic Psychiatric Examination.
The Journal of Psychiatry and Law 24:3-25, 1996.
The Credible Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation in Sexual Harassment Litigation. Psychiatric
Annals 26:139-148, 1996.
Ask the Experts. Newsletter, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 20:59-60, 1995.
The Natural History of Therapist Sexual Misconduct: Identification and Prevention.
Psychiatric Annals 25:90-94, 1995.
Between the Chair and the Door: Boundary Issues in the Therapeutic "Transition Zone.
"Co-authored with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2:336-340, 1995.
Transference in Therapist-Patient Sex: The Illusion of Patient Improvement and Consent,
Part 1 and 2. Psychiatric Annals 24:509-515, 1994 and 24:561-565, 1994.
Forensic Psychiatry and the Perturbation of Psychiatrists' Attention and Neutrality During
Psychotherapy. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 22:269-277, 1994.
The Psychological and Legal Aftermath of False Arrest and Imprisonment. Bulletin of American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 21:523-528, 1993.
Innovative Psychiatric Therapies and Legal Uncertainty: A Survival Guide for Clinicians. Psychiatric
Annals 23:473-479, 1993.
Assessing Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy: Survey Results with the Exploitation Index.
Co-authored with Richard S. Epstein, M.D. and Gary G. Kay, Ph.D. Bulletin of the Menninger
Clinic 56:1-17, 1992.
The Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility: A Psychobiological Approach. Psychiatric Annals
22:544-546, 1992.
Treatment Boundary Violations: Clinical, Ethical and Legal Considerations. Bulletin of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 20:269-288, 1992.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 32
Intimacy vs. Advocacy: Attorney-Client Sex. Co-authored with Marvin J. Firestone, M.D., J.D.
Tort & Insurance Law Journal 27:679-692, 1992.
Psychological Injury Caused by Boundary Violation Precursors to Therapist-Patient Sex.
Psychiatric Annals 21:614-619, 1991.
AIDS Dementia Complex in Health Care Providers: Do Treating Physicians Have an Ethical
and Legal Duty to Protect Endangered Patients? in Professional Liability in the Wake of the
AIDS Epidemic. Courts, Health Science and the Law 2:69-76, Summer, 1991.
The Exploitation Index: An Early Warning Indicator of Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy.
Co-authored with Richard S. Epstein, M.D. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 54:450-465, 1990.
You Only Die Once -- But Did You Intend It?: Psychiatric Assessment of Suicide Intent in
Insurance Litigation. Tort & Insurance Law Journal 25:650-662, 1990.
Beyond the Doctrine of Informed Consent--A Clinician's Perspective. The Journal for the Expert
Witness, The Trial Attorney, The Trial Judge 4:23-25, Fall, 1989.
Sexual Exploitation of Patients: How It Begins Before It Happens. Psychiatric Annals
19:104-112, 1989.
Silent Suicide in the Elderly. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
17:83-95, 1989.
AIDS and the Psychiatrist's Ethical and Legal Duty to Stay Abreast. Psychiatric Annals
18:561-562, 1988.
Cancerphobia: Myth or Malady in Psychic Injury Litigation. Trauma 29:43-60, 1988.
Guest Editor. Ethical Treatment of Patients with AIDS. Psychiatric Annals October, 1988.
The Psychiatrist as a Fiduciary: Avoiding the Double Agent Role. Psychiatric Annals
17:622-626, 1987.
After the Terrorist Incident: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Former Hostages. Co-authored
with Robert A. Blum, M.D. American Journal of Psychotherapy 41:194-200, 1987.
A Clinical Philosophy for the (Unduly) Defensive Psychiatrist. Psychiatric Annals 17:197-200,
1987. Coping Strategies for the Defensive Psychiatrist. Medicine and Law: An International
Journal 4:551-561, 1985.
Mazza v. Huffaker--Malpractice Liability for Sexual Relations with a Patient's Spouse. Newsletter,
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, September, 10:14-16, 1985.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 33
Tardive Dyskinesia Revisited--A Major Public Health Crisis. Co-authored with Joseph T. Smith,
M.D., J.D. Medical Trial Technique Quarterly 31:342-349, 1985.
Contrasting the American Bar Association and the American Psychiatric Association Positions
on the Insanity Defense. Newsletter, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 8:19-20, 1983.
Type A, AB, B Murders: Their Relationship to the Victim and the Criminal Justice System. Bulletin of
the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 5:344-362, 1977.
Great Paths Cross: Freud and James at Clark University, 1909. American Journal of Psychiatry
124:831-834, 1967.
A Case of Female Transsexualism. American Journal of Psychiatry 123:1598-1601, 1967.
Narcolepsy and the Strange Malady of Silas Marner. American Journal of Psychiatry 123:601-602,
1966.
Involutional Psychosis in Negroes. Archives of General Psychiatry 13:148-154, 1965.
Plato on the Mind-Body Problem. Journal of the American Medical Association 197:187-188, 1966.
Gogol's Nozdryov: The Caricature of a Sociopath in 1842. American Journal of Psychiatry 121:
399-400, 1964.
Obesity as a Depressive Equivalent. Journal of the American Medical Association 183:134-136, 1964.
The Travel Syndrome (presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association),
Abstract - Aerospace Medicine 33 (3): March 1962.
PUBLICATION - BOOK CHAPTERS
Clinical-Legal Issues in Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry 2014
Patient Safety and Freedom of Movement: Coping with Uncertainty. American Psychiatric Publishing
Textbook, Second Edition, Arlington, VA 2012
Suicide Risk Assessment: Gateway to Treatment and Management. American Psychiatric Publishing
Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management. Second Edition, Arlington, VA 2012
Therapeutic Risk Management of the Suicidal Patient. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of
Suicide Assessment and Management. Second Edition, Arlington, VA 2012
Case Questions and Answer Guide for Self-Study. Appendix 1 and 2. American Psychiatric
Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management. Second Edition, Arlington, VA 2012
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 34
Clinical-Legal Issues (with Alan A. Abrams, M.D., J.D.). Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury
Second Edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington, VA 2011
Suicide. Essentials of Psychiatry. Third Edition. (Edited by Hales, RE, Yudofsky SC, Gabbard, GO)
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2011
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment through Evidence-Based Psychiatry. Evidence-Based Practice in
Suicidology: A Source Book (Pompili M, Tatarelli R, Editors) Hogrege & Huber, Cambridge, MA
2010
Where are the Suicide Risk Assessments? Suicide in the Words of Suicidologists? (Maurizio Pompili,
M.D. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY 2010
Professional Liability in Psychiatric Practice and Requisite Standard of Care (Co-authored with Lead
Author Donald J. Meyer, M.D. and Daniel W. Shuman, J.D.), American Psychiatric Press Textbook of
Forensic Psychiatry. Second Edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2010
Psychiatric Diagnosis in Litigation (Co-authored with Liza H. Gold, M.D.) American Psychiatric
Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry. Second Edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Arlington, VA 2010
Clinical-Legal Issues in Psychiatry (Co-authored with Daniel W. Shuman, J.D.) Kaplan and Sadock’s
Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. 9th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia,
PA 2009
Psychiatry and Law. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry. (Hales RE, Yudofsky,
SC, Gabbard, GO, eds.) American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2008
Suicide: American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry. (Hales, RE, Yudofsky SC,
Gabbard, GO, eds.) American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2006
Suicide Risk: Assessing the Unpredictable. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide
Assessment and Management (Simon, R.I., Hales R.E. eds.) Arlington, VA, 2006
Patient Safety versus Freedom of Movement: Coping with Uncertainty. American Psychiatric
Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management (Simon, R.I., Hales R.E. eds.) Arlington,
VA, 2006
Clinically Based Risk Management of the Suicidal Patient: Avoiding Malpractice Litigation. American
Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management (Simon, R.I., Hales R.E.
eds.) Arlington, VA, 2006
Split Treatment (Co-authored with Donald J. Meyer). American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of
Suicide Assessment and Management (Simon, R.I., Hales R.E. eds.) Arlington, VA, 2006
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 35
Ethical and Clinical Legal Issues. Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury. Edited by Jonathan M.
Silver, M.D., et al. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Arlington, VA, 2005
Legal Issues: American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine. Edited
by James L. Levenson, M.D. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA, 2005
Clinical-Legal Issues in Psychiatry. Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Eight Edition.
Edited by Benjamin Sadock, M.D. and Virginia A. Sadock, M.D. William and Wilkins.
Baltimore, MD, 2005
Clinical-Legal Issues in Psychotherapy. Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy. Edited by
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D, et al. Oxford University Press, 2005
Psychiatric Malpractice. Standard of Care (Co-authored with Donald J. Meyer, M.D.) Textbook
of Forensic Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington, VA, 2004
Psychiatric Diagnosis in Litigation (Co-authored with Liza H. Gold, M.D.) Textbook of
Forensic Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington, VA 2004
Treatment Boundaries in Psychiatric Practice. Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry,
Second Edition. Arnold Publishers, 2004.
Sexual Misconduct in the Therapist-Patient Relationship. Principles and Practice of Forensic
Psychiatry, Second Edition. Arnold Publishers, 2004.
The Law in Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry. Fourth Edition. Edited
by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., John D. Talbott, M.D. American Psychiatric
Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 2003
The Forensic Psychiatric Examination of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Claimants. Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment. Second Edition. Edited by
Robert I. Simon, M.D., American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2003.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Neuropsychiatry
Vol. 3. Edited by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D. American Psychiatric
Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 2003.
The Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Criminal and Civil Litigation: A Clinical Review.
The Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past. American
Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 2002.
Murder, Suicide, Accident or Natural Death?: Assessment of Suicide Risk Factors at the Time of
Death. The Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past.
American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 2002.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 36
Legal and Ethical Issues. Textbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Psychiatry in the Medically
Ill. Second Edition. Edited by Wise, MG and Rundell, JR. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 2001.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Employment Cases. Co-authored with Liza H. Gold, M.D. Mental
and Emotional Injuries in Employment Litigation, Second Edition. Edited by McDonald, JJ and
Kulick, FB. Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC, 2001
Administrative Psychiatry: Practice and Legal Regulation. Textbook of Administrative Psychiatry.
New Concepts for a Changing Behavioral Health System. Second Edition. Edited by John A.
Talbott, M.D. and Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A. American Psychiatric Press Group,
Washington, DC, 2001.
Duty to Foresee, Forewarn, and Protect Against Violent Behavior: A Psychiatric Perspective.
School Violence: Assessment, Management, Prevention. Edited by Shafii, M. and Shafii, SL.
American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 2001.
Legal Issues in Psychiatry. Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition. Edited by
Harold I. Kaplan, M.D. and Benjamin J. Sadock, M.D. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 2000.
"Forensic Psychiatric Issues in the Emergency Room," co-authored with Goetz, S. In Emergency
Psychiatry. Edited by Bernstein, CA. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, December 1999.
Civil Law. Textbook of Administrative Psychiatry, Second Edition. Edited by John A. Talbott, M.D.,
Robert E. Hales, M.D., and Stuart L. Keill, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1999.
Therapist-Patient Sex: From Boundary Violations to Sexual Misconduct. In Forensic Psychiatry.
Edited by Resnick, PJ. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 1999.
The Law in Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry. Third Edition. Edited by
Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., John D. Talbott, M.D. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC., 1999.
Legal and Ethical Issues. Synopsis of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 1998.
Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy: From Gray Areas to Malpractice. The Mental Health
Practitioner and the Law: A Comprehensive Handbook. Edited by Lawrence Lifson, M.D.
and Robert I. Simon, M.D., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
The Suicidal Patient: Accepting Patient Risk and Therapist Anxiety. The Mental Health Practitioner
and the Law: A Comprehensive Handbook. Edited by Lawrence E. Lifson, M. D. and Robert I.
Simon, M. D., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 37
Current Litigation “Hot Spots” in Psychiatric Practice. The Mental Health Practitioner and the
Law: A Comprehensive Handbook. Edited by Lawrence E. Lifson, M.D. and Robert I. Simon, M.D.,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
Liability Prevention in Psychopharmacology. A Comprehensive Guide to Malpractice Risk
Management in Psychiatry. Edited by Frederic Flach, M.D. Hatherleigh Press, New York, 1998.
Ethical and Clinical Risk Management Principles in Recovered Memories Cases: Maintaining
Therapist Neutrality. Co-authored with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. Trauma and Memory: Clinical
and Legal Controversies. Edited by Paul S. Appelbaum, L. Uyehara and M. Elin. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of
Neuropsychiatry, Third Edition. Edited by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D. American
Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1997.
Guidelines for Performing Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Psychiatric Malpractice Risk Management. Directions in Psychiatry, Hatherleigh Co., New York,
1996
The Law in Psychiatry. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Edited by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky,
M.D., American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
Legal and Ethical Issues. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Edited by James R. Rundell, M.D. and Michael G. Wise, M.D., American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 1996.
Toward the Development of Guidelines in the Forensic Psychiatric Examination of Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder Claimants. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic
Assessment. Edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1995.
Legal and Ethical Issues. Impulsivity and Aggression. Edited by Eric Hollander, M.D.,
Dan Stein, M.D. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995.
Liability Prevention in Psychopharmacology. Directions in Psychiatry, Vol. IV, No. 4,
Hatherleigh Co., New York, 1994.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Neuropsychiatry. Synopsis of Neuropsychiatry. Edited by Robert E.
Hales, M.D. and Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1994.
The Law in Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, Second Edition.
Edited by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., John D. Talbott, M.D. American
Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1994.
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 38
Sexual Misconduct in the Therapist-Patient Relationship. Principles and Practice of Forensic
Psychiatry. Edited by Richard Rosner, M.D. Chapman & Hall, New York, 1994.
Treatment Boundaries in Psychiatric Practice. Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry.
Edited by Richard Rosner, M.D. Chapman & Hall, New York, 1994.
Legal and Ethical Issues in Traumatic Brain Injury. Traumatic Brain Injury. Edited by Jonathan M.
Silver, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1994.
The Potentially Violent Patient: Reducing Malpractice Risk. Directions in Psychiatry.
Hatherleigh Co., New York, 1993.
Civil Law. Textbook of Administrative Psychiatry. Edited by John A. Talbott, M.D., Robert E.
Hales, M.D., and Stuart L. Keill, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1992.
The Duty to Protect in Private Practice. Confidentiality versus The Duty to Protect: Foreseeable
Harm in the Practice of Psychiatry. Edited by James C. Beck, M.D., Ph.D. American Psychiatric
Press, Washington, DC, 1990. (Awarded Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American
Psychiatric Association, 1992).
Ethical and Legal Issues in Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of
Neuropsychiatry Vol 2. Edited by Robert E. Hales, M.D., Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D.
American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1992.
Clinical Risk Management of Suicidal Patients: Assessing the Unpredictable. American
Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 3. Edited by Robert I.
Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1992, pp. 3-63.
The Suicide Prevention Pact: Clinical and Legal Considerations. American Psychiatric Press Review
of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 2. Edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric
Press, Washington, DC, 1992, pp. 441-451.
The Practice of Psychotherapy: Legal Liabilities of an "Impossible" Profession. American
Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 2. Edited by Robert I.
Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 3-91.
Somatic Therapies and the Law. American Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and
the Law, Vol. 1. Edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC,
1990, pp. 3-79.
PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS
Gun Violence and Mental Illness. Edited by Liza H. Gold, M.D. and co-edited by Robert I. Simon,
M.D. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2016
American Psychiatric Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management. Second Edition. (Co-edited
with Robert E. Hales, M.D.) American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2012
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 39
Preventing Patient Suicide Clinical Assessment and Management. American Psychiatric Publishing,
Inc., Arlington, VA 2011
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of forensic Psychiatry. Second Edition. (Co-authored with
Liza H. Gold, M.D.) American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2010
Study Guide to Forensic Psychiatry: A Companion to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook
of Forensic Psychiatry. Second Edition. (Co-authored with Robert E. Hales, M.D.) American
Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2010
Bad Men do What Good Men Dream (updated). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA
2008
Textbook of Violence Assessment and Management. (Co-authored with K. Tardiff) American
Psychiatry Publishing, Arlington, VA 2008
Clinical Manual of Psychiatry and Law. (Co-authored with Daniel W. Shuman, J.D.) American
Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2007
Study Guide to Forensic Psychiatry: A Companion to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook
of Forensic Psychiatry. (Co-authored with Liza H. Gold, M.D.) American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Arlington, VA, 2006
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management. American
Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC. Edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D. and Robert E. Hales, M.D.
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2006
American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry. Co-authored with Liza H. Gold, M.D.
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2004
*Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically-based Risk Management. American
Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC 2004
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment. Second Edition.
Edited by Robert I. Simon, M.D., American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2003
†The Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past. Co-authored with
Daniel W. Shuman, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University. American Psychiatric
Press, Inc., Washington, DC, Spring, 2002.
* Winner of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Manfred S.
Guttmacher Award (2005) † Honorable Mention, American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Manfred S.
Guttmacher Award (2004)
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 40
Mastering Forensic Psychiatric Practice: Advanced Strategies for the Expert Witness. Co-authored
with Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. American
Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 2002.
Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians, Third Edition. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 2001.
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side
of Human Behavior. Chinese Edition, 2001
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of
Human Behavior. Paperback edition, American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, March 1999.
Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians, Second Edition. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 1998.
Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians, Second Edition. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 1998.
The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law: A Comprehensive Handbook. Co-edited with
Lawrence E. Lifson, M.D. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
Bad Med Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side
of Human Behavior. Italian Edition, October 1997.
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side
of Human Behavior. Japanese Edition, May 1997.
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side
of Human Behavior. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Litigation: Guidelines for Forensic Assessment. Edited by
Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1995.
*Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Second Edition. American Psychiatric Press, Inc.,
Washington, DC, 1992.
Concise Guide to Psychiatry and Law for Clinicians. American Psychiatric Press,
Washington, DC, 1992.
†Psychiatric Malpractice: Cases and Comments for Clinicians. Co-authored with
Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1992.
* Honorable Mention, American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (1994) † Winner of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (1993) Manfred S.
Guttmacher Award
Robert I. Simon, M.D. 11-10-15 41
American Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 3. Edited by
Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1992.
American Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 2. Edited by
Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1991.
American Psychiatric Press Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 1. Edited by
Robert I. Simon, M.D. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1990.
Concise Guide to Clinical Psychiatry and the Law. American Psychiatric Press, Washington,
DC, 1988.
*Clinical Psychiatry and the Law. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 1987.
Psychiatric Interventions and Malpractice: A Primer for Liability Prevention. Charles C. Thomas,
Springfield, Illinois, 1982.
* Cited in Washington v. Harper, 110 S Ct 3423 (1990)