PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thomas G. Gutheil
TI  - “Therapist-Patient Sex Syndrome”: The Perils of Nomenclature for the Forensic Psychiatrist
DP  - 1992 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 185--190
VI  - 20
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/20/2/185.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/20/2/185.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1992 Jun 01; 20
AB  - The escalating problem of sexual misconduct has heightened clinicians’ awareness of the consequences of therapist-patient sexual relations. One consciousness-raising device, the definition of “therapist-patient sex syndrome,” may pose more problems than remedies in the forensic, rather than clinical context. The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addition to diagnostic nomenclature.