California Evidence Code ARTICLE 7 - Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege

• Section 1010.
  As used in this article, “psychotherapist” means a person who is, or is reasonably believed by the patient to be:(a) A person authorized to practice medicine...
• Section 1010.5.
  A communication between a patient and an educational psychologist, licensed under Article 5 (commencing with Section 4986) of Chapter 13 of Division 2 of the...
• Section 1011.
  As used in this article, “patient” means a person who consults a psychotherapist or submits to an examination by a psychotherapist for the purpose of...
• Section 1012.
  As used in this article, “confidential communication between patient and psychotherapist” means information, including information obtained by an examination of the patient, transmitted between a...
• Section 1013.
  As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means:(a) The patient when he has no guardian or conservator.(b) A guardian or conservator of the patient when...
• Section 1014.
  Subject to Section 912 and except as otherwise provided in this article, the patient, whether or not a party, has a privilege to refuse to...
• Section 1015.
  The psychotherapist who received or made a communication subject to the privilege under this article shall claim the privilege whenever he is present when the...
• Section 1016.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the mental or emotional condition of the patient if...
• Section 1017.
  (a) There is no privilege under this article if the psychotherapist is appointed by order of a court to examine the patient, but this exception does...
• Section 1018.
  There is no privilege under this article if the services of the psychotherapist were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit or...
• Section 1019.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue between parties all of whom claim through a deceased patient,...
• Section 1020.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the psychotherapist or by the patient, of...
• Section 1021.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the intention of a patient, now deceased, with respect...
• Section 1022.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the validity of a deed of conveyance, will, or...
• Section 1023.
  There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1367) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the...
• Section 1024.
  There is no privilege under this article if the psychotherapist has reasonable cause to believe that the patient is in such mental or emotional condition...
• Section 1025.
  There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding brought by or on behalf of the patient to establish his competence.(Enacted by Stats. 1965,...
• Section 1026.
  There is no privilege under this article as to information that the psychotherapist or the patient is required to report to a public employee or...
• Section 1027.
  There is no privilege under this article if all of the following circumstances exist:(a) The patient is a child under the age of 16.(b) The psychotherapist has...

Last modified: October 22, 2018