Patient-therapist sex: 'just say no' isn't enough

This article focuses on the incidence of patient-therapist sex and the generally negative consequences for both parties; the characteristics of therapists against whom claims are laid; and the legal and ethical issues arising from such relationships. The authors conclude that prevention, in the form of more realistic and adaptive training programmes, is a far better approach to this problem than 'postvention' and the punishment of transgressing therapists.