2013 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 8. PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 4. Particular Privileges
ARTICLE 7. Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
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As used in this article, patient means a person who consults a psychotherapist or submits to an examination by a psychotherapist for the purpose of securing a diagnosis or preventive, palliative, or curative treatment of his mental or emotional condition or who submits to an examination of his mental or emotional condition for the purpose of scientific research on mental or emotional problems.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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