The power of new traumatic events to reignite memories and the distress of traumatic experiences earlier in life is well known to psychotherapists. When the recent trauma has been extreme, the task of assisting the patient to understand their response in the light of their earlier experience can be doubly challenging. This paper describes the…

The Supreme Court of California upheld a lower court's ruling in Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California. It stated that a psychotherapist's privilege of privacy based on the need for psychotherapeutic secrecy ends where the public peril begins. (LBH)