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Published Online: 1989, pp. 1–154

AIDS and Confidentiality: Legal Concept and Its Application in Psychotherapy

Ebrahim J. Kermani, M.D., and Bonnie A. Weiss, M.A., A.T.R.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 43, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.1.25

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Persons with positive HIV appear to have the same right to confidentiality as other medical psychiatric patients. The ethical and legal duties of practitioners who learn that their HIV positive patients are endangering others is discussed. The essential policies of the CDC, AMA, and APA are reviewed along with the current legal situation. One conclusion reached is that applying the Tarasoff doctrine to warn/protect a third party, if that party may already be infected, is useful only when the third party is moral and sensible enough to cease behavior that would spread the disease to others.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 43 • Number 1 • 1989, pp. 1–154

Pages: 25 - 31

PubMed: 2929792

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Published in print: 1989, pp. 1–154

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Ebrahim J. Kermani, M.D.^*

New York, NY

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Bonnie A. Weiss, M.A., A.T.R.^†

Brooklyn, NY

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Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center, 530 First Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.

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Director of Activity Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn, NY 11206.

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AIDS and Confidentiality: Legal Concept and Its Application in Psychotherapy

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