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[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.[b] Inviting you to a party[/b] 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]

If the invite list was not open, nothing happened "in public."
It is not a party.

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There isn't even supposed to be any relationship other than patient and doctor. It would be inappropriate even to invite OP and her spouse to a private dinner at the therapist's home with no one else, much less to a party with members of the public, and being a book release party may even have extensive social media or press coverage. While the therapist acted in a professional capacity with regard to OP, I would not consider OP a professional contact in the same way as a colleague. OP is his patient. There are boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. [/quote]

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