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Book SynopsisThis book brings together contemporary perspectives from psychodynamic treatment, advances in cognitive science, medicine, and neuroscience in a user-friendly format to guide the beginning to more advanced practitioner in working with secrets that emerge during psychotherapy.
Despite their ubiquity in life and in clinical practice, secrets and secret-keeping receive limited attention in the training and skill set required for mental health clinicians. Drawing on personal experience and clinical expertise as well as film, memoir, and literature, Dr. Kathryn Zerbe shares how secrets come to light in life and within treatment and demonstrates the powerful hold that secrets can have on our lives. This book offers a fresh take on how we view our secrets, and how we can use them as a tool to sustain our most intimate and valued connections over the course of a lifetime. Using cutting-edge research as well as honed clinical expertise, the author suggests how one might go about managi
