and trust, their attorney enable the attorney to best represent and pursue their client’s interests. Similarly, one seeking the aid of a physician, especially in the field of psychiatry or psychology, must openly communicate their thoughts, feelings, and other personal information as it is the only way to diagnose and treat such ailments. The legislature recognizes the importance of confidential relations and communication between psychologists and their clients by providing that such relationships, being on the same level as attorney-client, should be given equal protections. 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5944. Several cases in our Commonwealth have discussed the importance of privilege in the psychologist-patient relationship. See Kalenevitch v. Finger, 407 Pa.Super. 431, 595 A.2d 1224 (1991) (<HOLDING>); Commonwealth v. Kyle, 367 Pa.Super. 484, 533
recognizing qualified privilege for confidential presidential communications recognizing federal common law privilege for psychotherapistpatient communications but holding that litigant waived privilege by raising issue as to her psychological state holding that marital communications which arise from an act of violence by a spouse committed against the children of either spouse should constitute an exception to the marital privilege because such communications fail to satisfy the conditions underlying the creation of the privilege holding that the importance of keeping the psychotherapistpatient privilege confidential warrants the privileges extension to protect communications made to agents of the licensed psychologist or psychiatrist recognizing federal privilege for confidential therapistpatient communications based in part on the fact that the relationship is protected in all 50 states and the district of columbia