Tag: clinical harm

Clinical Harm is harm that occurs within, through, or because of clinical care, including actions, omissions, interpretations, boundary failures, ruptures, termination, or institutional responses that worsen distress, reduce safety, restrict agency, or compound prior injury.

Within the Captivity Lens, clinical harm is evaluated by consequence as well as intent, including whether care reproduces conditions of coercion, erasure, abandonment, interpretive domination, or loss of usable freedom.

  • Captivity Care

    Humility, reverence, and clinical care after captivity This is an evolving field publication. Captivity Care is developing as the clinical and relational implications of the Captivity-Informed Framework continue to be articulated. This teaching may expand as additional applications, distinctions, and…

  • Genuine Care And Harmful Dynamics Can Coexist

    Preserving What Was Real Without Diluting Accountability One of the hardest relational truths to hold is that care can be genuine and harm can still be real. A clinician may have provided meaningful, even substantial, help and later fail in…

  • Clinical Reenactment Is Not Actor Equivalence

    When a Later Care Relationship Reproduces Part of an Earlier Architecture A later helping relationship can reproduce the structure of an earlier harmful relationship without the people involved being morally, psychologically, or intentionally equivalent. This distinction matters. Without it, clinicians…