Telling the Truth: The Therapist’s Dilemma
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 200
- Category :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 97837
- ISBN 13 : 9781800132962
- ISBN 10 : 1800132964
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the author
Prologue
Story I. ‘Hesitating’ (Part I)
Essay 1. The love of truth
Story II. ‘Hesitating’ (Part II)
Essay 2. Telling the truth in everyday life
Essay 3. Types of truth and truthtelling
Story III. ‘Things left unsaid’
Essay 4. Truthtelling and power I: In the royal palace
Essay 5. Truthtelling and power II: In the therapy room
Story IV. ‘Are you going to shoot me?’
Essay 6. Shame, privacy, and awe
Essay 7. Narcissism: What truth must not touch
Essay 8. Truthtelling, love, and hate
Story V. ‘Let me know when you trust me’
Essay 9. The impact of not speaking: Fatigue and madness
Essay 10. Narcissism again: Taking possession of the truth
Essay 11. Beyond narcissism: Sharing the truth
Story VI: ‘What’s The Point Of Me?’
Essay 12. The craft of truthtelling
Essay 13. Styles of truthtelling: Provocation or attunement
Essay 14. The last essay
Notes