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Tort Law: Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege, Patient's Dangerous Condition, Confidentiality, Legal Duty to Warn Potential Victim
Burns, Robert E.
Akron Law Review, 9, 1, 191-8, Sum 75
The Supreme Court of California upheld a lower court's ruling in Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California. It stated that a psychotherapist's privilege of privacy based on the need for psychotherapeutic secrecy ends where the public peril begins. (LBH)
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Crime, Criminal Law, Legal Responsibility, Mental Disorders, Patients, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapy, Torts, Violence
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