RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “Therapist-Patient Sex Syndrome”: The Perils of Nomenclature for the Forensic Psychiatrist
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 185
OP 190
VO 20
IS 2
A1 Thomas G. Gutheil
YR 1992
UL http://jaapl.org/content/20/2/185.abstract
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.