I certainly see the value of collecting psych history records. They are valuable for future doctors, potential disability applications, and perhaps other purposes. But would more of a summary suffice, rather than the micro details of daily sessions? I imagine that some session notes are just brief notes.

I have had therapists write up summaries of a couple of pages or so in the past. Sometimes they charged for them, sometimes not. Definitely hundreds of pages photocopied will cost a lot. What is the value of each individual page vs. a summary?

When I applied for SSDI over 8 years ago, I had to obtain copies of hospital records. I also obtained some records from Partial Hospitalization Programs and Intensive Outpatient Programs. The hospital records were more summaries. The PHP and IOP records were voluminous, and included lots of questionnaires and notes, some typed/printed and some handwritten. Half of the stuff made little sense or was illegible. Really, the summaries were surely what Social Security read. I doubt they looked at every single blood test result. Those papers photocopied turned out to be a sad waste of trees.