Thought Experiment
- Therapist meets patient with drinking disorders
- Patient tells a story of a incident where she was drunk, and paid the delivery driver in sex instead of money
- They next day, the patient calls the police to say that she was assaulted
- The delivery driver was arrested, and sent to court, then he ended his own life
- Therapist wants to decide what to do with this information, should she inform the police about this woman? Or should she keep it to herself
Answers
Tell the Police
- Telling the police would provide her more help potentially
- Telling the police will alert the police of more incidents if she does this again
Keep it to Yourself
- The therapist is responsible for keeping confidentiality
- This death is an outlier, this usually doesn’t happen
- As a drunk person, she cannot really consent
- Police could find her as a perpetrator, and prosecute her