Abstract
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.
Footnotes
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This essay was written in honor of Bernard Diamond, M.D. for the 1991 meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, Orlando, FL; from the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School. Reprint requests to Dr. Gutheil at MMHC, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston. MA 02115. 617-734-1300.
- Copyright © 1992, The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
