"If you believe that a covered entity violated your (or someone else's) health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the HIPAA Privacy or Security Rule, you may file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights."
Health Information Privacy
This section of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website describes the Health Information Privacy Act (HIPAA) and how it affects mental health consumers.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html
Self-Disclosure and Its Impact on Individuals Who Receive Mental Health Services
Publication of SAMHSA discussing the positive and negative effects of disclosure for mental health consumers.
http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content//SMA08-4337/SMA08-4337.pdf
Confidentiality of Mental Health Information: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues
Chapter 7 in the 1999 Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter7/sec1.html