Trear v. Sills

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a therapist has no duty to the parent of an adult patient for allegedly false recovered memories of sexual abuse
• reasoning that a therapist acting in good faith is placed “in an untenable position if a duty is imposed upon him or her toward the patient’s possible abuser”
• finding that a therapist owed no duty to a patient’s father, who alleged that the therapist 6 triggered the patient’s false memories of sexual abuse, in part because of the countervailing 7 interest of the therapist’s duty to the patient
• “Granting the premise that 23 Case 1:18-cv-00768-DAD-SAB Document 75 Filed 08/13/21 Page 24 of 46 1 a patient’s symptoms (e.g., an eating disorder) might be the result of the suppressed trauma of 2 child molestation (as the Legislature certainly has
• “therapist’s duty does not extend beyond the patient to include someone who the therapist in good faith (even if negligently) concludes abused his or her patient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).