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'My Therapist Told Me ...'

By Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, MD, and Jeanne Galatzer-Levy
February 01, 2004

Therapists who treat your client can be meddlesome third wheels or enormous helps in divorce litigation. Dealing with them effectively can improve attorney-client relations and spare everyone considerable misery.

Sometimes divorce results directly from therapy, eg, when a person becomes healthy enough to leave a destructive relationship. Some clients are in treatment because of emotional problems that contributed to the breakup. Others are there because of the stress of the divorce. Whatever got them into treatment, if therapy is going well, your client will look to the therapist for trustworthy information about all sorts of things, including divorce litigation. Sometimes their trust is misplaced.

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