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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a professional event designed to sell books. He probably invited all his former clients. [/quote]
This. It's not a party, it's a book launch. Two different things.[/quote]

It still seems like [b]a unilateral disclosure of a sensitive professional relationship[/b] for his commercial purposes. [/quote]

This is true IF everybody who was invited could see everybody else invited. 
If they could not, there was no disclosure.[/quote]

I disagree. I thought that even if the therapist ran into you in public, they are not even supposed to acknowledge you unless you approach them. Inviting you to a party for any reason breaches that. The therapist should never be contacting you for anything but your care or admin and billing issues.

It could be that he accidentally sent it to his entire contact list. If I had inkling it was intentional I would consider reporting it (and if it's all so above board like people are saying, they can just dismiss it). [/quote]

Where would you report it?[/quote]

[b]DP https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201901/what-happens-when-you-encounter-your-therapist-in-public[/b]

[quote]Confidentiality is the most important factor

As it turns out, your therapist may be just as surprised to see you as you are to see him, but the most important aspect of this potentially awkward encounter is maintaining confidentiality. Therapists, and all healthcare professionals for that matter, are obligated to respect your confidentiality, meaning that they cannot share any information with non-health professionals regarding your current or past psychological history, nor are they allowed to disclose that they are your therapist and you are undergoing therapy. The main reason for this is to ensure your trust and safety so therefore your therapist may actually ignore you in public out of fear that they may break confidentiality.[/quote]

I suppose a book party invite list could be seen as going to a mix of former clients, neighbors, relatives, colleagues, etc., but with an exposed list it is certainly not sensitive to the issue of confidentiality. I suppose current or former clients who chose to attend would be consenting to potential disclosure of the therapeutic relationship. [/quote]

How does this answer the question you quoted?

And it still is not at all clear whether the individual names of all invitees was public, so not clear if the above even applies...[/quote]

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