Sleeping with the past: The ethics of post-termination patient-therapist sexual contact

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-177

  Ryan, Christopher James ^a   Anderson, Josephine ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHIATRIST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029899407     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679609076091     Document Type: Short Survey

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