Treating the West: Ruling on Disclosing Personal and Family Matters to Psychiatrists
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Treating the West: Ruling on Disclosing Personal and Family Matters to Psychiatrists
English:
Question #1386:
Psychiatrists often ask their patients about personal and family matters with a view to reaching a diagnosis and prescribing a treatment. Is it permissible for the patient to answer such questions?
Answer #1386:
There is no harm in it provided that it does not lead to bad effects, backbiting, or insulting a third party.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Treating the West