Abstract
The Tarasoff case established that a psychotherapist has a legal obligation to breach a patient's confidence in certain circumstances. The subsequent judicial expansion of the original Tarasoff doctrine raises additional legal issues that confront a psychotherapist in a Tarasoff-type dilemma where the law holds the protection of third parties outweighs the patient's right to confidentiality.
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