He repeatedly abused his patient by taking advantage of her role and creating a "bond of dependence and awe".
For this he was sentenced in the first instance to four and a half years in prison - with a third of the sentence discounted for having chosen the abbreviated procedure - a 72-year-old psychiatrist rather well known in Rome.
The accusation is that he raped a 27-year-old for months by leveraging the girl's fragility.
To tell the story is the Republic that retraced the nightmare of the woman.
According to the indictment, the doctor would have established "a bond of dependence and subjection" with the victim, abusing her "condition of psychic inferiority".
The sessions thus turned into violence and abuse, perpetrated for months,
until the 27-year-old decided to tell her parents everything and report what happened.
Words that then found confirmation in the investigations of the investigators.
The first-instance sentence also provides for a provisional payment of 40 thousand euros for the psychiatrist and "perpetual disqualification from any office pertaining to guardianship, guardianship and support administration, the suspension of the exercise of the medical profession, as well as from public offices for five years".