He maintains an active research program at a state psychiatric hospital, holds faculty-teaching appointments at the University of Virginia and James Madison University, and has published over forty research articles on the treatment of schizophrenia and chronic pain. Dr. Shutty was drawn to live in the Valley of Virginia by his passion for early American history, vernacular architecture, and country antiques. He restored, and now lives in, the Federal-style house that became the object of several years of research, culminating in An Old House in Greenville, Virginia, his first book.