§ 1020 Psychotherapist-Patient Duty Breach

• •If a therapist or patient breaks a rule in their therapy relationship, their private talks can be used in court.
• •This law is about when secret therapy talks can be shared to prove someone did something wrong.
• •It only applies if the problem is about the therapist or patient not doing their job right in therapy.

A therapist tells their friend about a patient's secrets, and the patient sues the therapist for breaking privacy rules.

The patient can use what they talked about in therapy as proof in court that the therapist broke the rules.