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mountaindew24 said:
Hey everyone Mountaindew24 here again

Friday I called My T asked her If we could talk. She said ok I told here about my Dream I was having So I got to go see her Tomorrow , she was asking me these crazy ? and stuff. I was like why r u asking these ? for. Then she said I just got some papers from your old T a few days ago. it was from the month April and May. I asked her if she could make me copy and she said I don't think U want 2 c what she wrote, she said she not going to give them 2 me. So how can I get these papers from My T. she told me it best 4 U not know what she wrote...

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I think if your T refuses to tell you what is in them, she needs to explain how she thinks it is harmful for you to know. I wouldn't trust any T who could not justify their decision regarding non-disclosure of my own file to me.
Psychotherapy and personal notes are specially protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and by state law. These are separate from the medical record. Everything else, including diagnosis, summary, functional status reports, test results, etc. See this link for privacy protection laws: Jaffee-Redmond.Org

Everything other than psychotherapy and personal notes, your therapist and any other healthcare practitioner--have a legal obligation to disclose to you when you request it.

My personal thoughts on this matter are that if your T is a good T, and you like your T--then she might be trying to protect you from your previous T's notes because they are offensive in some way. Please discuss this with your T. Ask her to explain specifics of why she doesn't want to disclose, and what exactly it is that she doesn't want to disclose--if they are psychotherapy notes or your actual file. Big difference legally. You should be aware that they are only copies--- your last T who sent your current T the notes/file on you will still have the originals, and if you really want the file, you could do a run-around and request them legally from your previous T.

Beware--- bad T's write bad notes and keep bad files---- as in, not always accurate, not always factual, and sometimes, outright lies and damnations.