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Originally Posted by stopdog
I guess the point I am making is that I don't have a reason to lie to a therapist - I can refuse to answer questions or put topics off limits rather than compromise myself by lying. The therapist cannot compel me, by threat of disapproval or rejection, to do something I am not given to doing. I would not give a therapist that power.
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I feel similarly, and for me the notion of lying or omission in therapy being wrong or bad implies that I am accountable to the T in a parental sort of way, which I could never tolerate, and which would seem to set up an infantilizing and autonomy-draining dynamic.
May 11, 2016, 12:13 PM
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