Dr. Miles, for example, spent three years battling state licensing officials who wanted access to his private psychiatric records.

"The psychiatric records of Gillian Duncan, from the year she was nine years old."

In an effort to discredit his testimony, several senators then made public the sergeant's medical and psychiatric records.

He was involved in a family court case, but the records of that proceeding, like his psychiatric records, are sealed.

Then what would you think about my requesting your previous psychiatric records?

It penalized them for having a psychiatric record.

Even in such criminal cases, the failings of the mental-health system are rarely exposed because most psychiatric records never become public.

They also demanded, and eventually got, Mr. Edwards's psychiatric records.

In many parts of America, no one checks to see if gun customers have criminal or psychiatric records.