PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sims, Erika
AU  - Nelson, Katharine J
AU  - Sisti, Dominic
TI  - Borderline personality disorder, therapeutic privilege, integrated care: is it ethical to withhold a psychiatric diagnosis?
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2021-107216
DP  - 2021 Jul 13
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - medethics-2021-107216
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/29/medethics-2021-107216.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/29/medethics-2021-107216.full
AB  - Once common, therapeutic privilege—the practice whereby a physician withholds diagnostic or prognostic information from a patient intending to protect the patient—is now generally seen as unethical. However, instances of therapeutic privilege are common in some areas of clinical psychiatry. We describe therapeutic privilege in the context of borderline personality disorder, discuss the implications of diagnostic non-disclosure on integrated care and offer recommendations to promote diagnostic disclosure for this patient population.There are no data in this work.