Ep 197: A woman is killed after her attacker tells his therapist he wants to murder her. This landmark case would forever change the policies around mental health’s legal duties.
This is the Tatiana Tarasoff story.
For more info on duty to warn/protect https://www.apaservices.org/practice/good-practice/duty-to-protect.pdf
Sources for Today's Episode:
- Minds on Trial by Charles Patrick Ewing and Joseph McCann
- Cornell University
- Psychiatric Times
- Harvard.edu
- Justia Law
- Lawline Blog
- Psychology Today
- Tarasoff v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., 118 Cal. Rptr. 129 (Cal. 1974)
- John G. Fleming & Bruce Maximov, The Patient or His Victim: The Therapist's Dilemma, 62 CAL. L. REV. 1025 (1974).
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