but it's not taking away her right to keep her private life private, Luce. she still has the opportunity to say "i don't want to discuss that".

maybe if you were going through a similar situation as your T, then you would want to discuss her legal proceedings also, i don't know.

certainly if anything came up in the paper about my pdoc, i would bring it up, because i care about him immensely and want to make sure he is ok. if it was something relevant to what we were discussing, i would probably also want reassurance that he was still ok to keep working with me.

the paper is what took away her right to privacy, not Brian. by keeping quiet, brian may be fostering distrust/lack of confidence or whatever else, which would be counterproductive to the therapeutic relationship. i am not saying he *must* bring it up, but if you would like to, Brian, then i see no reason not to.