Twenty years after Tarasoff: Reviewing the duty to protect

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 67-76

  Anfang, Stuart A ^a,b   Appelbaum, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMAN; LAW; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0029783495     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673229609030526     Document Type: Review

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