Posted by btrout on November 30, 2012, at 22:21:35
I saw a new therapist today and she required me to sign a release to talk to my psychiatrist in order to continue with therapy. She was kind of strange for other reasons, but I was going to give her a chance until I found this out. She insisted that compelling new patients to sign a release for this sort of coordination represents the Standard of Care. In fact, her patients experienced this as "empowering."
My illness is very much under control medically and I was seeking to explore some childhood issues with her. I find this approach anything but empowering and very much intrusive. I think her approach implies that I can't be trusted to be truthful and forthcoming with my information, before she even knows me. At the same time, she's saying that I should formalize my trust in her before I even know her.
I left feeling really strange after I said that I wouldn't be continuing with her.
Is this The Standard of Care? Is this just something she made up to coerce patients to sign, in order to cover her a** legally, somehow? It seems almost controlling to me.
What say ye?
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