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I hadn’t broken Poland’s abortion laws – so why did the police raid my flat? (www.theguardian.com)

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Artist was humiliated by the authorities and lambasted by the press after terminating a pregnancy, but refuses to be silenced

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One night, two weeks after I’d taken the pills, I was at home when suddenly there was a loud banging on my front door and shouts of “police!”.

I had just come off the phone with my psychologist. It had been a stressful time and that night I’d had a panic attack. I’ve had these many times before and I called my psychologist for help. She asked me about any new medication I’d been taking so I told her about the abortion pills.

She was calm and told me that she was calling a paramedic. Instead she called the police. Later, the recording of her conversation with the police was leaked to the press, where she can be heard telling them that I’d had an abortion and was suicidal, though I specifically told her I wasn’t.

I have a lot to say about my psychologist, none of it fit for print, but suffice to say I trusted her completely and she violated that trust and our confidentiality.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have a lot to say about my psychologist, none of it fit for print, but suffice to say I trusted her completely and she violated that trust and our confidentiality.

Fuck it. Share it anyways. This psychologist is a piece of shit, and the fact that they weren't named in the article is bullshit.

[-] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 10 months ago

Psychologist should get publically shamed to hell and back. Even if Poland doesn't have client confidentiality (and that's a big if), she still has basic ethics of her profession to uphold. Hope the courts of Poland throw this one out.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

Usual psychiatry ethics allows for reporting to the cops IF someone has said they're planning harm to themselves or others.

Kind of sounds like the psychiatrist played around with that in order to report.

Hopefully they lose their license over it but I won't hold my breath.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

played around with that

*lied

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