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The duty of psychotherapists and administrators to protect third persons from the potential violence of a patient

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  1. 529 P.2d 553, 118 Cal. Rptr. 129 (1974) [Tarasoff I], vacated, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (1976) [Tarasoff II].

  2. Givelber, Bowers and Blitch, Tarasoff, Myth and Reality: An Empirical Study of Private Law in Action, 1984 Wis. L. Rev. 443. See also Runch, Survey Shows Therapists Misunderstand Tarasoff Rule, 35 Hosp. and Commun. Psychiatry 429 (1984).

  3. 551 P.2d 334, 343, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14, 23.

  4. Tarasoff II at 442, 551 P.2d at 347, 131 Cal. Reptr. at 27.

  5. Stone, The Tarasoff Decisions: Suing Psychotherapists to Safeguard Society, 90 Harvard Law Rev. 358 (1976).

  6. Appelbaum, Tarasoff and the Clinician: Problems in Fulfillng the Duty to Protect, 142 Am. J. Psychiatry 425 (1985).

  7. 146 Vt. 61, 499 A.2d 422 (1985).

  8. 712 F.2d 391 (9th Cir 1983).

  9. See, e.g.,Schuster v. Altenberg, 144 Wis. 2d 223, 424 N.W. 2d 159 (1988) andPerreira v. State 768 P.2d 1198 (Colo. 1989) (en banc). But seeThompson v. Alameda County, 167 Cal. Rptr. 70, 614 P. 2d F28 (1980) to the opposite effect.

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Prof. Alexander D. Brooks is a distinguished scholar of mental health law. He currently holds the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professorship of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, for the academic year 1989–1990. Prof. Brooks is the Justice Joseph Weintraub Professor Emeritus of Law at the Rutgers Law School in Newark, NJ. His well-known text,Law, Psychiatry and the Mental Health System, was presented the Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association in 1975. He has lectured and presented workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad and has written extensively on a variety of mental health law issues.

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Brooks, A.D. The duty of psychotherapists and administrators to protect third persons from the potential violence of a patient. Adm Policy Ment Health 17, 185–188 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706086

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