8. The Tarasoff Case: Must the Protective Privilege End Where the Public Peril Begins?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. We Have Met the Enemy, and He (Is) Was Us 17
6. 2. The Buried Bodies Case: Lawyers Risk Their Careers to Defend Their Ethical Commitment to Client Privacy 44
7. 3. The Case of Joseph Lifschutz: A Psychoanalyst in Jail 54
8. 4. “ The Angry Act”: The Psychoanalyst’s Breach of Confidentiality in Philip Roth’s Life and Art 63
9. 5. Angry Acts and Counteracts in Philip Roth’s Life and Art 82
10. 6. The Case of Jane Doe v. Joan Roe and Peter Poe: The Most Extensive Violation Ever of a Psychotherapy Patient’s Privacy 105
11. 7. The Anne Sexton Controversy: “There Is Nothing Like This in the History of Literary Biography!” 144
12. 8. The Tarasoff Case: Must the Protective Privilege End Where the Public Peril Begins? 175
13. 9. Jaffee v. Redmond: The Supreme Court Speaks 198
14. 10. The People v. Robert Bierenbaum: “Long- Ago Warnings Cannot Justify Abrogating the Privilege Covering Still Confidential Communications” 235
15. 11. United States v. Sol Wachtler: “This Chief Judge Is Either Crazy or Criminal” 264
16. Conclusion 299
17. Works Cited 321
18. Index 335