Sex between psychotherapists and their patients is forbidden. However, this accusation is being raised at a university hospital – now the trial is about to begin.
Speaker Listen to article The story of this case is about what happened between a therapist and his patient, but also about what happened between the university clinic and the patient. © Alina Günter for DIE ZEIT
The woman points to a window on the second floor. “It was up there,” says Johanna Fischer. The yellow brick building of the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy towers over Tübingen like a castle. What happened in the room on the second floor is now a matter for the judiciary.
Johanna Fischer went to this room for psychotherapy. Her therapist is said to have had sex with her there. On the wooden chair near the door. On the green patient bed directly against the wall. This is how Fischer describes it, whose name has been changed in this text for her protection. Once the lounger started to hit the wall and there was a loud bang. Directly next to the room is another doctor’s office, and one door further is that of the clinic’s medical director.