Telling the Truth: The Therapist’s Dilemma
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 188
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 97837
- ISBN 13 : 9781800132962
- ISBN 10 : 1800132964
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the author
Prologue
1. ‘Hesitating’ - Part I
2. The love of truth
3. ‘Hesitating’ - Part II
4. Telling the truth in everyday life
5. Types of truth and truthtelling
6. ‘Things left unsaid’
7. Truthtelling and power I: In the royal palace
8. Truthtelling and power II: In the therapy room
9. ‘Are you going to shoot me?’
10. Shame, privacy, and awe
11. Narcissism: What truth must not touch
12. Truthtelling, love, and hate
13. ‘Let me know when you trust me’
14. The impact of not speaking: Fatigue and madness
15. Narcissism again: Taking possession of the truth
16. Beyond narcissism: Sharing the truth
17. ‘What’s The Point Of Me?’
18. The craft of truthtelling
19. Styles of truthtelling: Provocation or attunement
20. The last essay
Notes