I’m pretty sure the reason why he didn’t transfer her to a new doctor was for her own safety + what #6 said. Also she’s said on multiple occasions that she KNEW she made him uncomfortable n that she LIKED it. This combined with her sexually harassing him and him clarifying their professional relationship on multiple occasions (ie. Verbally saying so, no longer responding to her emails, refusing to see her more than the necessary once a month appointments, etc.) shows he was a victim not her
i think ur getting downvoted bc you said she reacted fairly. she’s not reacting rationally, she’s clearly in a delusion. it’s not her fault though, really i think the only thing she can be held accountable for is her sexually harassing her psychiatrist with the details of her sex dream, although it’s understood that came from a place of genuine delusion. she is sick and deserves far more empathy than she’s been given.
Do we even have his side of the story? Because from similar stories I’ve heard/read about this kind of situation, the target (in this case the psychiatrist) has little to no idea that this is even going on. The interactions she sees as romantic are either completely in her head or are completely mundane in reality but have been twisted into romantic gestures. The main point I’m trying to make is she is not a reliable source to what’s going on.
Exactly, she responded to a doctor who was clearly being empathetic to her and indicated she wanted love and he gave it to her. Whether professional or not, it’s the kind of support women desperately crave nowadays, and when she found out it was just professional she reacted accordingly. None of this is on her
“reacted accordingly” is a stretch, but i get what you mean because i know how it registered. that being said, the best thing for her to do would be get the hell off the internet, but i don’t think she will. she’s gonna ride this high until it ends, and then she’s gonna have a lottttt of pieces to pick up
i rly do fail to see how she was manipulated here. anything can set off a manic episode or psychosis, and i think him saying their relationship was purely business was that. even in her own stories about him, she doesn’t really make him out to be manipulative. exes though? maybe could be a trigger for these issues, that i don’t know
you could make a case that it’s kind of odd, but you could also make the case that it was the professional thing to do. she could’ve sued or tried to report him for patient abandonment had he dropped her. my honest guess is he kept her after thinking it was just a small thing he could gloss over and then it blew up. i don’t believe there’s a fault here
That man did not abuse her. Be so fr. He wasn’t scheming to get rich. Sometimes patients develop psychosis with their psychiatrist as the target, but that psychosis is why they need a psychiatrist in the first place. He shouldn’t leave her without help just because she fixated on him.
Should he have talked about it more clearly? Yes. But she has an issue of infatuation, not love, because of transference. She is in need of support from another professional who that transference likely won’t carry over to. From her own testimony, though, he hasn’t done anything unethical.
also i used to think similarly to you that the psychiatrist was in the wrong for not ending the sessions, but i saw another psychiatrist talk about how in school they are trained that if a patient confesses their feelings to them, not to immediately drop them because that can cause more damage and feelings of abandonment after the patient was just vulnerable with them. instead they are supposed to talk through those feelings and examine them with the patient
Oh I didn’t read any of the comments, just the op. I can’t say if he handled her appropriately just based off her unreliable account and since I’m not trained in that field but she should have taken better care to keep his identity hidden 100% and he doesn’t deserve any hate. She should have deleted that video immediately when she accidentally slipped his name