Circling Back: STOP LYING to your Therapist!
This excerpt from my upcoming video on "How to Engage in Meaningful, Successful Psychotherapy" addresses the impulse--at times irresistible, for individuals with high anxiety and avoidant behaviors--to be dishonest with one's therapist, physician or other provider. It's obviously a pointless thing to do, patently counterproductive and wasteful, and yet it is not uncommon. Why do clients lie to their psychotherapists? And when it is a compulsion (usually secondary to embarrassment, feelings of guilt, or some other amorphous, illogical and unnameable fear), can it be tamed?
For more insights on "How to Do Therapy," please stay tuned!