if the behavior talked about in the therapy session falls in certain categories including molesting children under a certain age, the therapist is obligated by law to report it
________________________________ From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Celebrity! Low-life material - surely he's looking at prison time unless the girls concerned are unwilling to testify? I was concerned about one aspect though that no one has mentioned: his wife secretly taping the conversation. When someone goes to a therapist (or a priest for confession) it is always understood that the exchange is strictly confidential. If not, who would ever have opened up to Sigmund Freud about their sexual hang-ups and perverse behaviours? To me there's something shocking in the wife's handing over the tapes to the media. Back at home she could have secretly recorded talks with her husband about the abuse - he'd already admitted his crimes to her so it wouldn't have been difficult to obtain incriminating evidence. But can't we keep therapists' couches and priests' confessionals as sacrosanct spaces?