OPTIONAL: Excerpt from Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1 (1996)

This is the Supreme Court case mentioned in your text that recognized the psychotherapist-patient privilege. Scalia’s dissent highlights the questionable assumptions underlying the privilege, which highlights some of the questionable assumptions underlying all privileges.

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