In Re Lifschutz

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• revealing the existence of psychotherapist-patient relationship did not constitute a waiver
• even when privilege is waived, protection order and pre-discovery inquiry into materials are appropriate to “safeguard the privacy of the patient”
• even when privilege is waived, protection order and pre-discovery inquiry into materials are appropriate to \safeguard the privacy of the patient\
• “communications 12 which are not directly relevant to those specific conditions do not fall within the terms of section 13 1016’s exception and therefore remain privileged”
• there is no 21 psychotherapist-patient privilege “with respect to those mental conditions the patient- 22 litigant has disclosed by bringing an action in which they are in issue” (citation and internal 23 alterations and quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).