Citation

Atl. Report. 1988; 540: 212-218.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, West Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11648569

Abstract

The Superior Court of New Jersey held that a portion of the Department of Corrections regulation which excludes inmate patient communications from psychotherapist-patient privilege, when it is believed that disclosure is more important to the interests of substantial justice than to the protection of the relationship between the psychotherapist and patient, is invalid because it is broader than a situation which presents a clear and imminent danger to the inmate or to others. Communications concerning drug trafficking which may interfere with the orderly operation of the correctional facility and communications relating to specified past crimes are both protected by the confidentiality requirement; disclosure requires the existence of an identifiable intended victim, not merely the dangerousness indicated by a prior act.

Language: en