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...psychiatrist?s responsibility...
...What if Jesus Fornes had confessed his crime to a psychiatrist? According to Dr. Richard Harding, president of the American Psychiatric Association and staff member at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the psychiatrist?s loyalty lies solely with his client. If a patient commits murder and confesses the crime to his doctor, and that doctor is subpoenaed and asked point-blank whether his client committed the murder, the psychiatrist is supposed to do almost anything to avoid implicating his patient. Why? First to maintain that patient?s trust. Second, because people tell their psychiatrists they plan...
...Hanssen's lawyers at Plato Cacheris' Washington firm, meanwhile, are mulling whether to go after fired defense team psychiatrist Aren Salerian on ethical violations for talking to the BBC, CBS and other media about the case, passing along embarrassing details such as Hanssen's alleged fascination with pornography, and Bonnie Hanssen's suspicions that her husband was spying as early as 1979. In addition to violating doctor-patient privilege, Hanssen's lawyers believe Salerian, as a member of the defense team, violated attorney-client privilege...
...Hanssen's lawyers at Plato Cacheris' Washington firm, meanwhile, are mulling whether to go after fired defense team psychiatrist Aren Salerian on ethical violations for talking to the BBC, CBS and other media about the case, passing along embarrassing details such as Hanssen's alleged fascination with pornography, and Bonnie Hanssen's suspicions that her husband was spying as early as 1979. In addition to violating doctor-patient privilege, Hanssen's lawyers believe Salerian, as a member of the defense team, violated attorney-client privilege...
...before the tragedy? And having already endured one harrowing postpartum episode, why did she have another child? Andrea had been prescribed Haldol, an antipsychotic, after the birth of her fourth child. "If she were indeed psychotic [then], she should not have gotten pregnant again," argues Dr. Viven Burt, a psychiatrist at UCLA. Women who have once endured postpartum depression risk a 50% chance of recurrence...