Emily Gottfried, Ph.D. is a clinical forensic
psychologist in the MUSC Community and Public Safety Psychiatry Division
(CPSPD). In this capacity, Dr. Gottfried completes forensic evaluations for the
courts, including competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, and
fitness for duty/preemployment psychological evaluations. She serves as the
Director of the MUSC Sexual Behaviors Clinic and Lab (SBCL) and conducts
evaluations of sexual behavior. She also provides expert testimony to the
courts. As the Director of CPSPD Student Education and Research, she provides
clinical and research supervision and mentoring to students. Dr. Gottfried is a
licensed clinical psychologist in the states of South Carolina and Georgia and
is a National Register Health Service Psychologist.
Dr. Gottfried obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in
Psychology from San Diego State University and a Master’s Degree in Psychology
from Teachers College of Columbia University in New York, NY. She then attended
Florida State University, where she earned a Master’s Degree and a Doctorate in
Clinical Psychology. She completed her pre-doctoral psychology internship
within the forensic track at Patton State Hospital in Southern California and a
postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at Georgia Regents University in
a partnership with East Central Regional Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
A copy of Dr. Gottfried's CV can be accessed
through this link
Research:
Broadly, Dr. Gottfried’s research interests
include sex offender risk assessment, physiological assessment of male and
female sexual arousal, the SVP Act, the accurate assessment of
malingering/feigning during criminal forensic evaluations, suicide risk assessment,
and female offenders. Please see the links (pubmed, research) for completed
projects.
Dr. Gottfried is currently conducting funded
studies assessing female sexual arousal using photovaginal plethysmography
(VPP) technology and behavioral outcomes/personality functioning of police
officers.
Select Publications:
Gottfried, E., Vitacco, M.J.,
Rogers, R., & Gay J.G. (In press). The
assessment
of psychopathy and response styles in sex offenders. In
Saleh, F.M., Grudzinskas, A.J., Bradford, J.M.,
& Brodsky, D.J. (Eds.) Sex
offenders: Identification, risk assessment, treatment, and legal Issues,
Second Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Murphy, L., Smith,
J., Gottfried,
E., & Brodsky, D. (In press). Sex offender
registries and public notification in
the United States and Canada. In Saleh, F.M., Grudzinskas, A.J.,
Bradford, J.M., & Brodsky, D.J. (Eds.) Sex offenders: Identification, risk
assessment, treatment, and legal Issues, Second Edition. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Parker, A.,
Mulay, A.M.,& Gottfried,
E. (2020). The Personality
Assessment Inventory (PAI): Treatment
Scales and Interpersonal Characteristics in a Sample of Men Charged with or
convicted of a Sexual Offense. Journal
of Forensic Sciences, 65(6), 2050-2057.
Gottfried, E., Shier, E.K.,
& Mulay, A.L. (2020). Child pornography and
online sexual solicitation. Current Psychiatry Reports, 22(10). DOI: 10.1007s11920-020-1132-y.
Murphy,
L., Gottfried,
E., DiMario, K., Perkins, D., & Fedoroff, J.P. (2020).
Use of penile plethysmography in the
court: A review of practices in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United
States. Behavioral
Sciences and the Law, 38(2), 79-99. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2453.
Vitacco, M.,
Green, D., Gottfried,
E., & Griswold, H. (2020).
Psychopathy and Conditional Release.
In Felthous, A. & Sass, H. (Eds.) The
Wiley International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law, 2nd
Edition. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-119-15928-5.
Vitacco, M.J., Gottfried, E.,
Batastini, A., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2020).
The Limited Relevance of Neuroimaging in
Insanity Evaluations. Neuroethics,
13, 249-260. DOI: 10.1007/s12152- 019-09421-8.
Gottfried, E., Mulay, A, & Dwyer,
R.G. (2020). Sexually Problematic
Behaviors. In Batastini, A.B. &
Vitacco, M.J. (Eds.) Forensic
Mental Health Evaluations in the Digital Age: A practitioner’s Guide to
Using Internet-Based Data. (p. 113-142). Springer
Nature Switzerland. ISBN: 978-3-03033907-4.
Gottfried, E., Harrop, T., Anestis, J.,
Venables, N., Sellbom, M. (2019). An
examination of triarchic psychopathy
constructs in female offenders. Journal
of Personality Assessment, 101(5), 455-467. DOI:
10.1080/00223891.2018.1502193.
Gottfried, E., Shier, E., &
Dwyer, R.G. (2018). Diminished Capacity Rape
and
Capacity to Consent
to Sex. In Smith, M. (Ed). Encyclopedia
of Rape. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Gottfried,
E., Vitacco,
M., & Steadham, J. (2017). The
Relationship between Feigned Psychiatric Symptoms and Feigned Lack of Legal
Knowledge among a Multi-Site Sample of Forensic Inpatients. International Journal of Forensic Mental
Health,16(3), 197-206. DOI:10.1080/14999013.2017.1288667.
Anestis, J., Finn, J., Gottfried, E., Hames,
J., Bodell, L., Hagan, C., Arnau,
R.,Anestis, M.,
Arbisi, P., Joiner,T. (2018). Burdensomeness, belongingness, & and
acquired capability: Assessing the interpersonal-psychological theory
of suicide with MMPI-2-RF scales. Assessment,
25(4),
415-431. DOI: 10.1177/1073191116652227.
Glassmire, D., Tarescavage, A., & Gottfried, E. (2016).
Likelihood of
obtaining Structured Interview of
Reported Symptoms (SIRS) and
SIRS-2
elevations among forensic psychiatric inpatients with screening elevations
on the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test. Psychological Assessment, 28(12),
1586-1596. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000289.