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Paul S. Appelbaum
Born1951 (age 72–73)
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Harvard Medical School (MD)
OccupationPsychiatrist
SpouseDiana Muir Karter
Children3 including Yoni Appelbaum and Binyamin Appelbaum
FamilyPeter Karter (father-in-law)
Trish Karter (sister-in-law)

Paul Stuart Appelbaum (born 1951) is an American psychiatrist and a leading expert on legal and ethical issues in medicine and psychiatry.

Appelbaum has been Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2006. \Appelbaum was President of the American Psychiatric Association (2002-2003) and President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (1995-1996).[1]

Appelbaum is a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the World Psychiatric Association, and Chair of the APA's DSM Steering Committee. He was the Fritz Redlich Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; he was given the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association for "outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence." Appelbaum has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,[1] and is a Hastings Center Fellow.

Appelbaum is credited with conceptualizing the idea of the therapeutic misconception in which subjects in medical research studies misunderstand the primary purpose of their contact with the research team as treatment.[2]

Education and early career

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Appelbaum is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Columbia College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. During his medical residency, Appelbaum studied as a special student at Harvard Law School. He describes his legal training as of "critical importance to my later career development."[3] He then became assistant professor of psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He credits the special student status he had at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh while working as a young psychiatric research professor with helping him "move with greater assurance into empirical research on issues in law and psychiatry."[3]

He returned to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center to serve as Executive Officer and as head of the Program in Psychiatry and Law for one year, before becoming the A. F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He served for many years as chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Research

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According to Appelbaum, his focus has always been on "trying to address the empirical questions that... inform and influence policy-related decisions."[3]

His areas of particular expertise include the logic and practice of informed consent,[4] the understanding of the influence of law on psychiatry,[5] and the prediction of dangerousness[6] so as to better guide psychiatric practice. His original work with Tom Grisso in the assessment of patient competency has had broad influence for research and better treatment of both civil and criminal patients.[7]

He developed a theory of ethics for forensic psychiatry.[8]

Since moving to Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2006, Appelbaum has focused on the medical, ethical and legal aspects of human genetic research.[9] He leads the Center for Research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics.[10]

Appelbaum is a frequent media commentator on medical issues.[11] [12] [13] The New York Times describes him as "a professor of psychiatry at Columbia who has published widely on medical ethics and the law."[14]

Awards, honors, memberships

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Four of Appelbaum's books have received the Manfred Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Appelbaum became President of the American Psychiatric Association in May 2002. He was President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He has twice chaired the Council on Psychiatry and Law, and the Commission on Judicial Action for the American Psychiatric Association, and served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Networks on Mental Health and the Law and on Mandated Community Treatment. He has received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association for ‘outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence’.[3]

Personal life

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Appelbaum grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a letter carrier and a school teacher.[3] He is married to Diana Muir Appelbaum; they have three adult children, Binyamin Appelbaum; Yoni Appelbaum; and Avigail Appelbaum[15] and belong to Congregation Ramath Orah in Manhattan.[16]

Books

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  • The Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law, (3rd ed., 2000) with Thomas G. Gutheil.
  • Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change, (1994).
  • Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Healthcare Professionals, (1998) with Thomas Grisso.
  • Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics, (1987) with Stanley Joel Reiser, Harold J. Bursztajn, and Thomas G. Gutheil.
  • Rethinking Risk Assessment, (2001) with John Monahan, Henry J. Steadman, Eric Silver, Pamela Clark Robbins, Edward P. Mulvey, Loren H. Roth, Thomas Grisso, and Steven Banks.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Paul S. Appelbaum faculty profile". columbia.edu. Columbia University Medical School. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  2. ^ Appelbaum, P. S.; Lidz, C. W. (2008). "Twenty-five years of therapeutic misconception". The Hastings Center Report. 38 (2): 5–6, author reply 6–7. JSTOR 25165302. PMID 18457217.
  3. ^ a b c d e Sarkar, Sameer (1 August 2002). "An American perspective: Paul S. Appelbaum: in conversation with Sameer P. Sarkayr". Psychiatric Bulletin. 26 (8): 301. doi:10.1192/pb.26.8.305.
  4. ^ Appelbaum PS, Lidz CW, Meisel A: Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987
  5. ^ Appelbaum PS, Gutheil TG: Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law, 2nd ed. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1991
  6. ^ Monahan J, Steadman H, Silver E, Appelbaum PS, Robbins PC, Mulvey EP, Roth LH, Grisso T, Banks S: Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001
  7. ^ Grisso T, Appelbaum PS: Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998
  8. ^ Appelbaum, PS (1997). "A theory of ethics for forensic psychiatry". J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 25 (3): 233–247. PMID 9323651.
  9. ^ "Interview: Ethics and law continue to shape psychiatric practice and research; Paul S. Appelbaum". Future Medicine. 2013. doi:10.2217/npy.13.63.
  10. ^ "Center for Research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics". braingenethics.cumc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  11. ^ States Face Decisions on Who Is Mentally Fit to Vote – New York Times
  12. ^ Can Mental Patients Say No To Drugs? - New York Times
  13. ^ States work to close gaps in FBI gun database - USATODAY.com
  14. ^ Antibiotics Questioned in Care at Life’s End - New York Times
  15. ^ Brendel, Martina (April 2007). "Alumni Updates: Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum '72 Comes Home to Columbia". Columbia College Today.
  16. ^ "Annual Dinner 2014 Honoring Paul & Dede Appelbaum and Andre & Shalhevet Jacobvitz". Congregation Ramath Orah. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
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