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A first-year doctor on a community mental health placement has been seeing a 24-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder. Over six weeks he has given her his personal mobile number, extended her appointments to an hour, and twice replied to her messages after midnight. He tells the registrar that he is the only one who really understands her and that the nursing staff are "punitive". Her self-harm has not changed. Which one of the following should he do?
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