In Pingtella v. Jones (305 A.D.2d 38, 758 N.Y.S.2d 717 [2003]) the defendant psychiatrist was treating a woman for "major depression with psychotic features" (at 39). During the period she was treating, the woman stabbed her son, who was wounded and developed psychiatric problems. After the boy's father, on behalf of the boy, sued the psychiatrist, the Fourth Department declined to extend the psychiatrist's duty of care to include the son.