Posted by pinkeye on February 11, 2005, at 21:01:07
In reply to is complete honesty essential?, posted by DustBuster on February 11, 2005, at 20:32:35
Of course you should continue with therapy even if you are not 100% honest. I feel it would be better if you can be 100 % honest, but if not, that should be fine - if you can get meaningful work done with the rest of the issues. But do try to be as honest as possible with other issues.. that is why you are going there for - to show the real you. No point in faking that one. You get plenty of other people and oppurtunities to fake in life.
If that one thing you are leaving out is going to impact the rest, it might be better to open it after you get comfortable enough with your therapist - if you ever feel like it. Of course that is what they are for - to be able to tell anything and everything without feeling ashamed, guilty, need to please etc.
> I'm reading "The Road Less Travelled", and Dr Peck says that for talk therapy to be successful, patients must be completely open and honest about themselves and their experiences to their therapist. There are parts of my past I don't ever want to revisit, much less reveal. It makes me thing I'm just wasting my time and money in therapy, given that I'm never going to talk about it. Has anyone else ever run into this situation? Is it possible to get *ANY* benefit from therapy if you're not willing to be 100% open and honest?
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