Abstract

Proscribed Sex: Counseling the Patient Subjected to Sexual Intimacy by a Therapist

Sonne J L

Year: 1987 Source: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, v.21, no.6, (June 1987), p.118-123 SIEC No: 19880081

The author presents guidelines for the assessment of patients subjected to sexual intimacy by health care professionals. Diagnostic criteria for the “therapist-patient sex syndrome” are described, including emotional liability, guilt, suicidal ideation, ambivalence, anger, cognitive dysfunction, & other psychological disturbances. This syndrome may involve acute chronic, & delayed syptomatology. Legal ramifications are discussed. 4 Ref. (NBB)