PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - PB Herbert
TI  - Psychotherapy as law enforcement
DP  - 2004 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 91--95
VI  - 32
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/32/1/91.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/32/1/91.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2004 Mar 01; 32
AB  - Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitious evidence-gathering by a psychiatrist, the latest progeny of Tarasoff.