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How Useful Are Clinical Reports concerning the Consequences of Therapist-Patient Sex?

Harmfulness and prevalence of sex between therapist and patient are difficult to research because accurate rate of harm in the general population cannot be established. Outrage at professional-ethics violations must be separated from symptom assessment, and should not alter validity standards adopted by authors of clinical reports

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