Table of Contents:
  • 1. The shared experience and self-disclosure
  • 2. Self-disclosure in religious spiritual direction: antecedents and parallels to self-disclosure in psychotherapy
  • 3. Self-disclosure and classical psychoanalysis
  • 4. Show and tell: reflections on the analyst's self-disclosure
  • 5. Self-disclosure in rational-emotive therapy
  • 6. Self-disclosure in psychotherapy and the psychology of the self
  • 7. The role of implicit communication in therapist self-disclosure
  • 8. Transference, countertransference, and therapeutic efficacy in relation to self-disclosure by the analyst
  • 9. Self-disclosure and the nonwhite ethnic minority patient
  • 10. Feminist therapy perspectives on self-disclosure
  • 11. Self-closure and psychotherapy with children and adolescents
  • 12. Self-disclosure in psychotherapy: working with older adults
  • 13. Self-disclosure in group psychotherapy
  • 14. Criteria for therapist self-disclosure
  • 15. Self-disclosure in Holocaust survivors: effects on the next generation
  • 16. From secrecy to self-disclosure: healing the scars of incest
  • 17. Issues in the disclosure of perinatal death
  • 18. Self-disclosure and psychotherapy