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3857 REVIEW DENIED A psychotherapist who learns from a patient's parent that the patient has threatened violence to a readily identifiable person owes the threatened person a duty to act reasonably to protect against violence by the patient; the duty depends on the therapist's state of mind rather than the standard of the reasonable therapist, so no expert testimony is required.CitationEWING v NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL (Psychotherapist's Duty) 120 CA4 1289 [See: CivC 43.92; Tarasoff v Regents 17 C3 425; Hedlund v Superior Court 34 C3 695; Ewing v Goldstein 120 Cal.App.4th 807, T/AT 8/04]
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